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

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Podcast: [ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604)
Published: 2026-01-30T02:42:52+00:00
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## Resource

Hey guys, Alex here 👋 This week was so dense, that even my personal AI assistant Wolfred was struggling to help me keep up! Not to mention that we finally got to try one incredible piece of AI tech I’ve been waiting to get to try for a while! Clawdbot we told you about last week exploded in popularity and had to rebrand to Molt...bot OpenClaw after Anthropic threatened the creators, Google is shipping like crazy, first adding Agentic features into Chrome (used by nearly 4B people daily!) then shipping a glimpse of a future where everything we see will be generated with Genie 3, a first real time, consistent world model you can walk around in! Meanwhile in Open Source, Moonshot followed up with a .5 update to their excellent Kimi, our friends at Arcee launched Trinity Large (400B) and AI artists got the full Z-image. oh and Grok Imagine (their video model) now has an API, audio support and supposedly match Veo and Sora on quality while beating them on speed/price. Tons to cover, let’s dive in, and of course, all the links and show notes are at the end of the newsletter. Hey, if you’re in SF this weekend (Jan 31-Feb1), I’m hosting a self improving agents hackathon at W&B office, limited seats are left, Cursor is the surprise sponsor with $50/hacker credits + over $15K in cash prizes. lu.ma/weavehacks3 - Join us. Play any reality - Google Genie3 launches to Ultra Subscribers We got our collective minds blown by the videos of Genie-3 back in August (our initial coverage ) and now, Genie is available to the public (Those who can pay for the Ultra tier, more on this later, I have 3 codes to give out!). You can jump and generate any world and any character you can imagine here ! We generated a blue hacker lobster draped in a yellow bomber jacket swimming with mermaids and…

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