Wait, WHAT? AI Did All This Last Week??
So much happened in AI and robotics last week, it felt like we accidentally hit fast-forward on the future. If you blinked and missed the chaos, don’t worry — I’ve got the whole thing wrapped up like a gift from the AI gods. 🎁
Here’s everything you need to know, minus the boring bits 👇
1. Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot: Like Siri, But With a Medical Degree
Microsoft launched Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for healthcare.
🩺 Combines voice dictation + ambient listening
📄 Automatically handles clinical documentation
🕒 It’s already saving doctors about 5 minutes per patient
If only it could also fix hospital Wi-Fi.
2. Meet Manus: The AI Agent That Multitasks Better Than You
A Chinese startup introduced Manus, an AI agent that’s fully autonomous and terrifyingly efficient.
📊 It can research, handle financial transactions, and make purchases — all at once.
Basically, it’s the overachiever we all secretly resent.
3. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas 2.0: Now Lifting Things (Not Just Vibes)
Atlas 2.0 just showed off its ability to pick, carry, and place objects.
Finally, it’s more than a TikTok dance star.
Warehouses, meet your new MVP.
4. Anthropic Raised $3.5B After Dropping Claude 3.5 Sonnet 💸
Fresh off the launch of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Anthropic raised a casual $3.5 billion, tripling their valuation to $61.5B.
They plan to use it to:
💻 Expand computing power
🧠 Improve AI safety
🌍 Go global (because, why not?)
5. T-Mobile’s Parent Is Dropping an AI Phone 📱
Deutsche Telekom (aka T-Mobile’s parent company) just announced a phone powered by Perplexity AI.
🧠 Native AI assistant
🚫 No more app-switching
🎨 Also packs AI tools from Google, ElevenLabs, and PicsArt
All for under $1,000. Take notes, Apple.
6. Cortical Labs Built a Biocomputer. Yes, With Living Neurons 🧠⚡
CL1 is here: a chip made with actual living brain cells.
It’s already outperforming top models like DQN and PPO —
…after just 5 minutes of training.
You, meanwhile, are still trying to remember your Netflix password.
7. Sanctuary AI Gave Robots the Sense of Touch 🤏
The Phoenix humanoid robot by Sanctuary AI now has tactile sensors.
It can feel textures and pressure and perform tasks even without seeing.
Yes, robots can now feel more than your last situationship did.
8. Alibaba’s Qwen Released QwQ-32B: Smart, Cheap, and Open 🧠💰
Qwen dropped QwQ-32B, a reasoning AI that’s:
📏 20x smaller than DeepSeek-R1
💻 Supports coding with Artifacts
💸 Only $0.20 per million tokens
🆓 Free + open-source under Apache 2.0
Small but mighty (and budget-friendly).
9. AI Can Now Write Full Songs in 10 Seconds 🎤
DiffRhythm by ASLP Labs generates 4-minute tracks with vocals in just 10 seconds.
Just give it some lyrics and a reference style.
Your Spotify playlist is shaking.
10. Convergence AI Built a Template Marketplace for Agents 🧩
They launched Template Hub for Proxy agents.
You can now turn your tasks into shareable templates and see how many people are using them.
It’s like Pinterest… but for overachieving AI agents.
11. India’s MUKS Robotics Unveiled ‘Spaceo’, a Heavy-Duty Humanoid 🤖
Specs? Oh, they went big:
📦 200kg payload
🦾 7 degrees of freedom arms
📏 Adjustable up to 8 feet tall
🧠 FusionMax Omni-Modal AI
This robot’s stronger and taller than 90% of us.
12. China’s UBTECH Showcased Swarm Intelligence 🧠🤝
Walker S1 humanoids working together in Zeekr’s factory = teamwork goals.
Their ‘BrainNet’ system allows multi-robot collaboration like a sci-fi squad in real life.
Humans could never.
13. Reachy 2 Sorts Food Without Training 🍏🍩
Reachy 2 by Pollen Robotics autonomously sorted healthy vs. unhealthy foods —
WITHOUT AI training, thanks to real-time object detection and their open-source SDK.
Maybe it can help with your diet, too?
14. Proception Emerged From Stealth With Smart Robot Hands 🖐️
Proception, a startup from Palo Alto, finally showed what they’ve been cooking:
A humanoid hand trained using real human data and interactions.
High five to the future.
That’s a Wrap! 🧠💥
Whew! If that felt like a lot… it was.
AI and robotics are evolving faster than you can say “machine learning.”
See you next week for another dose of futuristic madness!
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