📆 Jan 29 - Genie3 is here, Clawd rebrands, Kimi K2.5 surprises, Chrome goes agentic & more AI news

Quick Overview

The week in AI news featured the forced rebranding of the popular open-source assistant Clawdbot to the unergonomic Moltbot due to copyright issues with Anthropic, the surprising release of Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5, a trillion-parameter MOE model competitive in benchmarks, and Google's announcement of Genie 3, a real-time, controllable 3D world model generator available to Ultra subscribers.

Key Points: Clawdbot, the open-source AI assistant by Peter Steinberg, was forced to rename to Moltbot after Anthropic claimed copyright infringement, leading to immediate user frustration over the new name's pronunciation. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, a 1-trillion parameter MOE model with 32B active parameters, achieving high scores on benchmarks like Humanities Evals (50%) and surpassing multiple big labs in certain evals, while offering significantly cheaper API access at $0.60 per million input tokens. Google launched Genie 3, a world model generator for Ultra subscribers in the US, enabling real-time, controllable 3D world creation with physics and collision detection, demonstrated by controlling a blue robotic lobster character. ARCEE AI released Trinity Large, a 400B sparse MOE model with 13B active parameters, trained on 17 trillion tokens, which is twice the context length (512K) of Kimi K2.5 and can fit on a single A100/H100 GPU when quantized. Google is integrating Gemini 3 with Nano Banana Pro into Chrome for agentic browsing capabilities (Auto Browse), allowing autonomous multi-step task handling directly within the browser. Anthropic launched MCP apps, adopting the MCP UI specification previously discussed on the show, further expanding the ecosystem for building AI apps across platforms like Slack and Figma. The Klein team members responsible for the controversial 'smell' comment at a hackathon were reportedly acqui-hired by OpenAI to work on Codex, following the founder's initial support and subsequent retraction.

Context: The hosts Alex Volkov and Wolfram Ravenwolf, joined by LDJ, Ryan Carson, and Nisten, provided their weekly update on AI news, focusing heavily on open-source developments and major releases from large labs. A significant talking point was the immediate fallout and renaming of the viral open-source project Clawdbot, which had dominated AI discussions the previous week, alongside breaking news regarding Google's new world model technology.