🤖 AI Weekly Recap (Week 8)

Happy Sunday! We just had another crazy week in AI. Google just dropped the world’s most advanced AI model while this new AI lets you create agents like Clawdbot instantly inside your messaging apps.

And that's not all, here are the most important AI moves you need to know this week.

1. Manus launches AI agents in Telegram

Manus just revolutionized how we interact with AI by launching full autonomous agents directly inside Telegram. No complex setup, no maintenance headaches, just scan a QR code and you have a personal AI assistant that can handle multi-step tasks, generate content, and work across your tools, all from your chat.

• Setup takes under 60 seconds with simple QR code scanning

• Full multi-step task execution with persistent memory

• Supports voice messages, photos, and document processing

• Available across all subscription tiers including free users

Try it now → https://manus.im

2. Google launches Lyria 3 music generation

Google dropped Lyria 3, their most advanced music generation model yet, directly into Gemini. Create full songs with vocals, lyrics, and professional production quality in seconds, just describe what you want or upload a photo, and watch it transform into a custom soundtrack.

• Generates 30-second tracks with vocals and auto-generated lyrics

• Works from text prompts, photos, or videos

• All tracks watermarked with SynthID for AI identification

• Available in 8 languages including English, Spanish, and Japanese

Try it now → https://gemini.google/overview/music-generation

3. xAI releases Grok 4.2 public beta

xAI just unleashed Grok 4.2 (also called Grok 4.20) in public beta, featuring unprecedented real-time data integration from X (Twitter). This isn't just another language model, it's pulling live information as it happens, crushing competitors in real-world trading simulations with 12%+ returns while others posted losses.

• Real-time X data integration for up-to-the-second information

• Posted 12.11% profit in Alpha Arena trading tests vs losses from competitors

• Rapid-learning architecture with weekly improvement cycles

• Scores 75% on SWE-bench and 15.9% on ARC-AGI

Try it now → https://grok.com

4. Pika launches AI Self

Pika launched AI Selves, a revolutionary feature that creates a digital clone of you powered by AI. This AI is a living AI version that mimics your communication style, makes decisions like you would, and can autonomously handle your emails, meetings, and social media across every platform.

• Creates personalized AI that learns your communication style

• Handles emails, meetings, and social media autonomously

• Works across all platforms with unified personality

• Continuously learns and adapts to your preferences

Try it now → https://pika.art

5. ByteDance releases Seed 2.0

ByteDance just released Seed 2.0, a groundbreaking AI agent that can look at a screenshot of any website or app and recreate it as fully functional code. It autonomously restores layout and visual details, generating production-ready HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with animations and interactive extensions.

• Converts screenshots into fully functional web pages

• Generates animations and interactive UI elements automatically

• Produces production-ready HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Supports complex layouts and modern web features

Try it now → https://seed.bytedance.com

6. Google unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro, delivering a massive leap in AI reasoning capabilities. Scoring 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than double its predecessor's performance, this model brings frontier-level intelligence to complex problem-solving while maintaining the same affordable pricing structure.

• Achieves 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, 2x better than Gemini 3 Pro

• Maintains 1M token context window for massive documents

• Same pricing as before despite performance doubling

• Available now in Gemini app, NotebookLM, and API

Try it now → https://gemini.google.com

7. Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 4.6, and it's a game-changer. With dramatic improvements in coding, computer use, and long-context reasoning, developers are preferring it over even the previous Opus model. The 1M token context window means you can process entire codebases in a single request.

• 72.5% on OSWorld for computer use, nearly 5x improvement over 16 months

• 1M token context window holds entire codebases

• Developers prefer it to previous Opus 70% of the time

• Same pricing as Sonnet 4.5 at $3/$15 per million tokens

Try it now → https://claude.ai