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1) Things Are Getting Better

2) NVIDIA's Blue Open-Source Robot

At this year’s NVIDIA GTC, one announcement clearly stole the show: Blue. A short, lovable, Star Wars-like robot, Blue emerged from an all-star collaboration between NVIDIA, Disney Research, and Google DeepMind.

Blue's incredible movements are powered by Newton, a groundbreaking open-source physics engine co-developed by this trio. Newton allows Blue to navigate its environment with real-world precision and finesse previously confined to elite robotics labs. Now, that technology is out there for developers everywhere to experiment with. Meaning, we’re about to get a lot more cool robots.

Watch the live demo where Blue rolls out to greet Jensen Huang. It was so cool.

Last year, I correctly called that 2025 would finally deliver effective AI agents—and we've already seen that with breakthroughs like Manus. Now, here's my next prediction: 2026 will be the year robots like Blue become mainstream. First at Disney parks, and then in people’s houses.

Get ready—robots are about to roll into our lives, for real.

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3) Manus AI Tested On The Next Wave

In this week’s episode of The Next Wave, Matt Wolfe and I played with Manus, the new highly hyped AI agent. And it honestly blew me away. It can probably do a lot more than you realize. Check it out!

Also, please subscribe to The Next Wave on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. 

4) o1 Pro available in API for a small fortune

OpenAI has officially released access to their smartest model, o1 Pro through their API—but it comes with an unprecedented price tag. At $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens, it's now the most expensive publicly available AI model.

This highlights an emerging trend: as AI advances, we're seeing a clear market split. Cutting-edge, premium models like o1 Pro set the bar high in both performance and price, while earlier generations become increasingly affordable and accessible.

This isn't just happening at OpenAI. Just yesterday, Cursor introduced "Claude 3.7 Max"—a high-powered iteration of Claude 3.7 Sonnet where they basically give it more context and time to think. At a significantly higher cost.

As professor Ethan Mollick from Wharton said in the tweet below, the smart bet is that the models will keep getting cheaper and smarter.

But the cutting edge will get ever more expensive as we’re allowed to throw massive $$$ at test-time compute to give the best models more time to think. AGI is going to be here soon, and at first it’s going to be incredibly expensive.

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-Nathan