# 📆 Jan 29 - Genie3 is here, Clawd rebrands, Kimi K2.5 surprises, Chrome goes agentic & more AI news Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsdK1XrerVY Recap page: https://rapidrecap.app/video/TsdK1XrerVY Generated: 2026-01-30T03:33:31.137+00:00 --- ## 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. ## Detailed Analysis The main focus of the ThursdAI update was the rapid evolution in both open-source models and foundational agentic technology. The controversy surrounding Clawdbot concluded with its forced rename to Moltbot following a copyright request from Anthropic, despite Peter Steinberg, the creator, being a leading Codex user. In open-source model releases, Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 stood out as a 1-trillion parameter MOE model competitive with frontier models, offering a drastic price reduction compared to proprietary APIs like Claude Opus 4.5. Furthermore, ARCEE AI released Trinity Large, a large Western lab model with a 512K context window usable on single high-end GPUs, unlike the resource-intensive Kimi K2.5. On the big lab front, Google debuted Genie 3, a groundbreaking world model available to Ultra subscribers, allowing real-time, interactive 3D environment generation controlled by users, which the hosts demonstrated extensively, noting its potential path toward AGI and integration with video models (Veo). Google also advanced agentic capabilities by integrating Gemini 3 into Chrome for Auto Browse functionality, mirroring capabilities seen in OpenAI's Atlas, while Anthropic bolstered its app ecosystem by launching MCP apps. ### Clawdbot Rebranding and Personnel Changes - Clawdbot rebranded to Moltbot after Anthropic requested a name change due to copyright infringement - The Klein team members involved in the viral 'smell' comment controversy joined OpenAI to work on Codex, following initial support and subsequent firing of one member by the Klein founder. ### Open Source Model Highlights - Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, a 1T parameter MOE model (32B active) with 256K context, scoring highly on benchmarks and priced at $0.60/million input tokens - ARCEE AI launched Trinity Large (400B total, 13B active) with 512K context, runnable on single GPUs when quantized. ### Google's Genie 3 World Model - Genie 3 allows Ultra subscribers to generate and interact with full 3D worlds in real-time at 24 FPS, featuring physics and persistence, demonstrated via a game-like controller interface - The technology leverages Nano Banana Pro for imagery and is seen by some Google teams as a path toward AGI. ### Agentic and Big Lab Updates - Google integrated Gemini 3 into Chrome for Auto Browse, supporting multi-step agentic browsing tasks - Anthropic launched MCP apps, adopting the industry-standard protocol for building applications across various platforms. ### Tooling and Ecosystem Notes - Kimi K2.5's aggressive pricing (10x cheaper than Opus 4.5) makes it highly attractive for budget-conscious agent builders - Jan V3, a 4B parameter model, showed strong coding gains and is optimized for fast local inference, suitable for smaller, dedicated tasks.