AI Agents

Update July 2026: recent developments in anthropic may affect the information in this post — see details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthropic just announced it’s going to develop its own drugs. Not partner with pharma companies. Not license Claude to labs. Actually discover and develop treatments — starting with what it calls “neglected” diseases. If you’re a solo builder using Claude to run your business, this sounds like a headline from a different universe. But I think there’s something here that directly affects how you should be thinking about your tools. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent two weeks testing every major AI agent framework so you don’t have to. Here’s what I found — and why the “best” framework depends entirely on what you’re actually trying to build. If you’ve been hearing names like LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenClaw, and Hermes thrown around and wondering which one matters for someone who doesn’t write code, you’re not alone. The agent space is moving fast, and most of the content out there is written by developers, for developers. This post is different. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve followed General Intuition since their initial $134M raise last year — the startup trains AI agents on video game clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users. The pitch: use gameplay data to teach AI how to move through the physical world. My first reaction was the same as everyone else’s. Does watching someone play Fortnite actually help a robot cross an office? ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. General Intuition just raised another $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation — less than a year after its initial $134M round — bringing total disclosed funding to $454 million. The company trains AI agents on billions of gameplay clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users, using embedded action labels (button presses, timing) rather than video alone. Khosla Ventures led the latest round, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup just raised $2.3 billion to train AI agents on Fortnite gameplay footage. General Intuition is building world models from 2 billion video game clips per year — teaching AI to understand space, time, and movement by watching how humans navigate dynamic environments. For solo builders, this shifts AI agents from text processors into visual operators that can see screens, navigate interfaces, and make spatial decisions. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been thinking about hiring a lot lately — not because I’m hiring, but because the entire process is getting weird. Last week, a Stockholm startup called Fika Jobs raised $4 million to build a platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with job candidates. Not screening calls. Not resume filters. Actual 10-minute conversations where an AI asks questions, records responses, and builds a video profile that employers browse. If you’re a solo builder who’s ever struggled to hire — or wondered how AI agents are going to change the job market — this one’s for you. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI over the past few months, and most people haven’t noticed yet. The way AI works — the fundamental unit of how you interact with it — is changing from a single question-and-answer to a continuous loop. And if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to miss the biggest upgrade to AI tools since ChatGPT launched. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents for months, and the bill was the part that hurt the most. Not the setup, not the prompts — the raw token cost of letting a model plan, call tools, verify its own work, and loop. Agentic workflows eat tokens like a starving man at a buffet. So when Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 last week as a “cheaper way to run agents,” I had to find out if it actually changes the math. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. “A part of our NVIDIA GEAR lab now self-improves tirelessly overnight. We just read the reports in the morning.” That’s Jim Fan, director of AI at Nvidia, describing what happened when his team gave AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and — in his words — a “generous token budget.” The agents didn’t just follow instructions. They wrote their own training programs, tested them on real robots, debugged failures, and iterated until the robots could cut zip ties and insert GPUs into motherboard sockets with 99% accuracy. All while the researchers slept. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write: the next generation of AI agents might learn to navigate the real world by watching teenagers play Fortnite. A startup called General Intuition just raised $300 million, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year. The valuation sits above $2 billion. But the money is the boring part. The interesting part is the mechanism: instead of building AI that processes text, they’re building AI that understands space, time, and movement. ...