Clawdbot Is Now Moltbot, Why GPT-5 Flopped, Kimi 2.5, and OpenAI’s Super Bowl–Priced Ads
This Week in AI Newsletter: 1/27/2025
Moltbot
Clawdbot renamed to Moltbot after concerns over similarities to Anthropic’s Claude. More here.
Here is a full setup guide by Damian Player for Clawdbot (now Moltbot), an open source AI assistant that lets non technical users run a 24/7 bot that clears email, schedules meetings, researches companies, and handles real work through Telegram or WhatsApp. More here.
Moltbot didn’t come out of nowhere, its founder Peter Steinberger built 43 side projects before Clawdbot went viral. More here.
Sam Altman admitted ChatGPT’s creative writing suffered because the company prioritized coding due to limited bandwidth, leaving OpenAI playing catch-up. More here.
Kimi just released K2.5, an open-source visual agentic model setting new state-of-the-art results across agentic benchmarks, vision, and coding, with support for multimodal workflows and large-scale parallel agents. More here.
Anthropic launched interactive Claude apps that let users work directly with tools like Slack, Figma, Canva, and Box inside the chatbot for enterprise workflows. More here.
Ricursive Intelligence announced a $300M Series A at a $4B valuation to use AI to design better chips faster by closing the self-improving loop between AI and hardware. More here.
OpenAI is reportedly targeting about $60 CPM for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcast pricing and far above Meta’s typical sub $20 CPM, according to The Information. More here.
AI video startup Synthesia doubled its valuation to $4 billion after raising $200 million in new funding and is letting employees cash out shares through a structured secondary sale while staying private. More here.