Have you heard these exciting AI news? - January 23, 2026 AI Updates Weekly

Presented by Lev Selector - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector Slides on GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dmj00iilSP-JYmriMUUaHCKz5X54e3UX?ths=true Slides on GitHub - https://github.com/lselector/seminar (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Please write in comments your opinion and experience orchestrating multiple agents. Which framework do you use? ------------------------------------------------------- Need AI Consulting ? - Enterprise AI Solutions - https://EAIS.ai - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector - GitHub - https://github.com/lselector ------------------------------------------------------- Our books: "Artificial Intelligence In Business: Strategies That Work" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3364G/ "AI Product Manager: Building Tomorrow" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS9NFK9/ "How to Learn with AI?: A Practical Guide for Students, Professionals, and Self-Learners" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWLNVQMJ/ "Professional + AI: Future-Proofing Your Career" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLCTZQ --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 From manual coder to orchestrator of AI agent fleets 00:24 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 01:15 skills.sh - directory of skills 03:44 Cline vs Claude Code AI coding assistants 04:53 Block's open-source Goose vs Claude Code 05:49 Stack Overflow - Rapid Decline 06:15 GLM-4.7 Flash - Lightweight and Free 07:11 Baidu ERNIE 5.0 - 2.4T params 08:02 Anti-gravity Update - Skill Builder capability 09:17 Gemini CLI Update: Session Persistence 09:55 Aion UI - open-source "Co-work" alternative 11:54 Manus AI (Meta) - develop mobile apps 12:44 Claude Code extension for VS Code 13:40 Moonshots podcast with Ray Kurzweil 14:54 Google AI Studio upgrades 15:13 Robotics muscles (actuators) 16:37 Google TranslateGemma 17:06 PixVerse AI Video Generation in Real Time 17:49 FLUX.2 Klein - generate AI Images in 0.5 sec 18:01 How to Rank #1 with NotebookLM AI SEO 18:39 AI research workflow: Perplexity + NotebookLM 18:52 Wikipedia deal: Microsoft, Meta, Amazon 18:58 Microsoft OptiMind-SFT (a.k.a. OptiMind) 19:39 Google AI Edge 20:08 Taiwan invests $250 Bln into US 20:29 Thinking Machines Lab loses two co-founders 20:55 OpenAI Open Responses Standard 21:35 Cursor ran 100s of AI coding agents for weeks 22:27 OpenAI Updates 23:16 NVIDIA Nemotron-Speech ASR 23:54 Deepseek Engram Conditional Memory 25:07 Nvidia personaplex-7b-v1 26:39 Emotion Computing 27:01 NousCoder-14B Trained with RL 27:40 Microsoft VibeVoice-ASR 27:46 Myrothinker 1.5 - 30B & 235B 28:26 Haystack, LangChain, LlamaIndex 29:20 Microsoft Research Job Market Predictions 30:51 Boris Cherny about career trajectory 31:58 Jobs, Layoffs, demand for AI Engineers ---- Takeaways: 1. The role of software engineers is shifting from manual coding to orchestrating fleets of AI agents, with tools like Claude Code increasing engineer productivity by nearly 70%. 2. AI literacy is becoming mandatory for high-paying jobs, with workers who have AI skills expected to earn roughly 56% more than those without. 3. Skills-based workflows are replacing heavy MCP server token usage, allowing lightweight dynamic loading of specialized capabilities using under 50 tokens per skill header. ---- Quotes: "From manual coder to orchestrator of AI agent fleets." "If you want to make more money you have to learn AI." "Models are changing and you have to adjust your workflow. Think about the models which will be available six months from now not just the models which we have today." ---- Summary: Key topics include the rise of skills.sh as a lightweight alternative to MCP servers, the rapid adoption of Claude Code as a VS Code extension with over 3 million downloads, and the decline of Stack Overflow as AI replaces traditional coding Q and A. New models like GLM-4.7 Flash and Baidu ERNIE 5.0, real-time video generation from PixVerse, and research workflow tools combining Perplexity with NotebookLM. Job market predictions showing AI literacy becoming essential, with 85 million jobs being outsourced to AI while 97 million AI-related jobs emerge. ---- Keywords: AI agents, Claude Code, Cline, skills.sh, LM Arena, Stack Overflow decline, GLM-4.7 Flash, Baidu ERNIE, Gemini CLI, anti-gravity, NotebookLM, PixVerse, job market, AI literacy, reinforcement learning, NousCoder, Deepseek, robotics actuators, Google AI Edge, Taiwan investment ---- ---- ----