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OpenClaw

Software

25 creators

Exploring personal agents; ran a psychoanalysis prompt with access to his email and photos

"After hearing all of these crazy stories, I started using it very deeply. I think for many weeks both of us were sort of like every spare moment we would just spend talking to our OpenClaws."

Alexandr Wang

Creating Muse: The Fastest-Growing AI Product Since ChatGPT | Alexandr Wang, Meta ▶ 3:20
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Running AI agents independently on local hardware for AI sovereignty

"OpenClaw is a vote on making agents that are independent. If you use OpenClaw with Neotron or Gemma, which is Google's open source product, you will be sovereign AI. In other words, the AI running on your Mac Studio with 256 gigs of RAM."

This Week in Startups

Ask Jason: AI Extinction, Grok's Rogue Meme Coin & Weed Farms as Data Centers | E2337 ▶ 20:40

Powers Jim, Brex's AI recruiting employee; also powers Pedro's personal 'autopilot' life management system that ingests Slack, email, and meeting notes

"This is Jim. Jim is our OpenClaw recruiter. It runs on effectively like a three-stage pipeline. We do use OpenClaw for this but the harness doesn't really matter as much as just the skills. I have this system that I call autopilot and basically what it does..."

Pedro Franceschi

Stop Building AI Agents. Build AI Employees Instead (Live Demo) | Pedro Franceschi ▶ 12:38
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Athena

Software

3 creators

Executive assistant / human concierge layer

"Jason, you and I, we use Athena. And now Athena is very good because they're like the human concierge that is the elevated version maybe of Grok Bot and Dots and Muse, which is like whatever 3,000 a month, but that's my EA layer now."

Chamath Palihapitiya

Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots ▶ 1:24:01
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Full-time executive assistant support

"I have two of them work for me as my Athena assistants — full-time two Athena assistants like executive assistants — very smart, very hardworking."

This Week in Startups

How Bespoke faked AI until it actually worked (w/ Akemi Tsunagawa) | E2320 ▶ 22:43

Aggregating content from curated sources like Monocle to find design hotels, restaurants, and travel recommendations

"I was having my Athena assistants last year take Monocle and about 15 other sources where I find things and specific searches I use on those places. I would tell them, 'Hey, aggregate what I'm looking for when I go to Singapore.'"

This Week in Startups

Why AI has no taste and how to fix it (w/ Thais Castello Branco) | E2319 ▶ 22:36
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Siri

Software

3 creators

Searching personal iPhone data (messages, emails, calendar, photos), on-screen awareness, conversational follow-ups, and camera-based visual queries

"Siri's pretty good, so that's why it's my number two feature. It's no longer a cellar-dwelling shadow of an AI assistant. It's faster because it's locally indexed, it's a much more visual display, and it's also multimodal."

Marques Brownlee

iOS 27 Hands-On: Top 5 New Features! ▶ 6:43
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Calendar lookups, sending emails with availability, cross-app task automation, general Q&A replacing search

"The new Siri is really good. And 95% of the people are not going to need ChatGPT on their phone because they have Siri AI pre-installed. Siri AI does a lot of amazing things that you'd go to ChatGPT for — looking things up, answering questions, doing edits...."

Mark Gurman

Snap Specs, Taste, Midjourney Hardware, Lunchtime for AI Leaders ▶ 2:13:50

Asking quick questions while driving

"I love that Siri now you could just press Siri and ask it a question like how many minutes are in a month and it'll just tell you like right like you'd be driving on the car, you have a question, just press a button and it gives you the answer."

Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan Experience #2514 - Cameron Hanes ▶ 42:02
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Total Office

Software

1 creator

Outsourced back-office work, about 60 hours per month: mostly Schwab paperwork, plus cash transfers and trades while the advisors are on vacation, and compliance tasks such as monthly trade blotters and quarterly invoices

"It's been the same throughout the four years we've been utilizing a VA, and we use Total Office, out of Akron, Ohio... They are specific to RIAs... They've had turnover on their side, but we've never had a break in service. We didn't have to retrain that in..."

Michael Kitces

Ep 511: Outsourcing And Managing Client Headcount To Stay Lean As A Two-Founder, $150M Firm with ... ▶ 29:07
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