AI season roundup: Clawdbot, Claude Cowork, Kimi K2.5 and open models
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31-part curated thread tracking late January 2026 AI news: the viral Clawdbot agent, Anthropic's Cowork and skills releases, vibe-coding tools and open-weights model launches.
Key claims
Anthropic raising $20B at a $350B valuation
Kimi K2.5 is the leading open-weights model, on par with Claude
Clawdbot triggered a mac mini shortage
AI season is coming back at full force:
- Vibe-coding szn powered by Claude Code, Cursor & Codex
- Clawdbot (aka Moltbot) went absolutely viral (mac mini shortage)
- Kimi K2.5 launches & is leading open weights model (on par with Claude)
- Figure (Helix 02 for robotics), Mistral (Vibe 2.0 for vibe-coding), Qwen (Qwen3-Max-Thinking) and Trinity announce new open-source models
- Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, Claude skills & interactive tools
- Also: OpenAI Prism, Feynman-3, happycappy & co. announced
- Anthropic raising $20B at $350B valuation (citing strong investor demand)
- Much more
Thread to help you keep up with some recent updates and reads ↓
1/ The state of AI in a nutshell.
2/ WTF is Clawdbot (aka @openclaw), what can it do? What are the risks? And where is all of this going?
Answers below.
3/ Looks like Clawdbot is just the start though.
4/ Meet happycappy.
5/ Meanwhile Anthropic keeps shipping hard on Claude.
Meet Claude Cowork.
6/ Your work tools are now interactive in Claude.
7/ Claude for Excel.
8/ Vibe-coding szn is definitely on as well (powered by Claude Code).
9/ Guide to vibe-coding secure apps.
10/ Meanwhile, todos become Tasks in Claude Code
11/ This new task system on Claude Code is resonating well.
12/ Claude skills are about to change the game.
13/ Example?
14/ Given we're on the subject, a few random notes from claude coding by @karpathy.
15/ And more is coming.
16/ Meanwhile Claude is also outperforming in trading.
17/ On the "other side" there is also OpenAI Prism:
18/ But are they maybe just trying to steal your IP?
19/ To be fair tho, Anthropic has also experienced some backlash recently due to it's aggressive strategies against Clawdbot.
20/ More:
21/ Meanwhile, the Clawdbot creator favors OpenAI's Codex for coding, but mentions Claude Opus as his favorite model.
22/ And @xAI gave @grok a video generation upgrade too.
23/ Still catching up on how to use/master AI and looking for a guide?
Check the article below.
24/ Looking for good (non-crypto) AI accs to follow?
Check the list below.
25/ Open-source AI is accelerating rapidly too.
Best evidence: Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open weights model out there.
26/ The wildest part? The agentic swarm feature.
27/ A few words from Kimi founder Zhilin Yang.
28/ More on Kimi K2.5:
29/ Meanwhile, Trinity releases first weights from Trinity-Large (first frontier-scale model in the Trinity MoE family).
30/ Mistral launches a vibe-coding focused model:
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