China having another DeepSeek Moment, AI-powered real estate agent & AI reshaping careers

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Well well well, this week we have China having another ‘DeepSeek Moment’. Manus, literally redefines autonomous tasks execution. Also, an AI-powered real estate agent closed a deal of $100M. Yeah, you read it right 🙂.

In today’s issue:

🚀 China’s Manus does 50 tasks at once
🤑 AI-powered real estate agent closes a deal of $100M
🦾 AI job boom in 2025
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can’t miss
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh

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TODAY IN AI

1.  China's "Manus" can do 50 tasks at once: Butterfly Effect, a company with just a few dozen employees in Beijing and Wuhan, has unveiled Manus—a so-called "general AI agent" that can build apps, conduct deep research, and even screen resumes—all on its own. And get this: it supposedly outperforms OpenAI’s Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark, despite having way less funding than the American AI giants. The hype is real—Hugging Face’s Victor Mustar called it "the most impressive AI tool he’s ever tried,"
   But wait—plot twist! Some testers think Manus might actually be running on Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 😳, and the company’s co-founder pretty much confirmed it. Even so, people are already dreaming about what this thing could do if upgraded to the more powerful Claude 3.7. 
   

2. Portugal’s AI-powered real estate agent closes $100M in sales—no humans needed: Portugal just rewrote the real estate game with its first AI-powered real estate agent, and it’s already raking in $100 million in sales. Built by eSelf AI and Porta da Frente Christie’s, this digital property guru is always on, always available, making time zones irrelevant for international buyers. With access to over 5,000 properties, it answers questions instantly, suggests homes based on personal preferences, and even gives immersive virtual tours—meaning you could technically buy a dream house in Lisbon while chilling in your pajamas on the other side of the world. This isn’t just a tech upgrade; it’s a massive shift in how real estate deals are done, making the process faster, smoother, and way more efficient for buyers and sellers alike.
   

3. AI job boom explodes—demand doubles in 2025, and the money is flowing: If you’ve got AI skills, 2025 is your year. A whopping 25% of all U.S. tech jobs now require AI expertise, more than double from early 2024. But here’s the kicker: it’s not just tech anymore. Retail, real estate, and even HR are now hunting for AI talent as companies rush to integrate machine learning into their operations. At least nine U.S.-based AI companies have already landed $100M+ funding rounds in 2025 alone. And AI isn’t just about making money—it’s saving lives, too. AI is everywhere, and it’s reshaping careers, investments, and even healthcare at lightning speed.

STOP, DROP and THINK 🧠 

With AI rapidly transforming industries—from real estate to research and hiring—what do you think is the biggest challenge society will face as AI adoption accelerates?

QUICK HITS 💥 

It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..5-4-3-2-1 👇️ 

5-PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

• Flowest: monitors your website like a real user, alerting you to issues in real time.

• Fathom AI: records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings so you can stay focused on the conversation.

• Pieces: acts as a long-term memory agent, capturing and organizing workflow details to help you pick up where you left off.

• Luminance: streamlines legal work by generating, negotiating, and analyzing contracts directly in Microsoft Word.

• Forage: filters out low-priority emails and delivers them as a clean, daily summary, keeping your inbox clutter-free.

Looking for a specific AI tool and can’t find it? Post a request 🔍

4-AI JOB OPPORTUNITIES

1. OpenAI is hiring a Research Engineer, Human-Centered AI

2. Google is hiring a Artificial Intelligence Sales Specialist III

3. Nvidia is hiring an AI Developer Technology Engineer

4. Scale AI is hiring a AI Infrastructure Engineer, Model Serving Platform

Want us to search for tech related jobs in your country/city ? Post a request 🔍

3-THINGS IN TREND

1. Investor Deedy Das shared a GitHub hack by PatrickJS that makes the AI coding tool Cursor way smarter than usual.

2. AI developer Lamar Cannon used Manus’ AI agent to plan an epic two-month family trip across continents—hotels, budgets, and even a food guide included!

3. A Redditor made a hilarious AI video of cats working in fast food, and the internet can’t get enough of it.

2-USEFUL LINKS

1. A beginner course on using AI to build your own internet startup.

2. Learn about Model Context Protocol — think an API for Gen AI Models to interact & connect. Learn how to use it under 15 minutes from this tutorial.

1-PROMPT OF THE DAY

Automate email sending using Manus, by providing it a single email template and a list of recipient emails 📧 

Task: Automate email sending using Manus.
Input: A single email template and a list of recipient emails.
Requirements:

Use the provided email content as the body.
Personalize the email by inserting the recipient’s name if available.
Ensure proper formatting (subject line, body, signature).
Send emails individually (not as a mass email).
Log sent emails and provide a status report.
Example Input:

Email Template:
Subject: "Exclusive Offer for You!"
Body: "Hello [Name], we have an exclusive offer just for you. Click the link to learn more!"
Recipient List: ["[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"]
Expected Output:

Emails sent successfully with personalized names.
Status report:
John: Sent ✅
Jane: Sent ✅
Doe: Sent ✅

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰 

🧠 AI Predicts Dementia Years in Advance: Researchers at Mass General Brigham used AI to analyze sleep patterns and predict cognitive decline with 77% accuracy—your dreams might just reveal your future.

🕵️‍♂️ Deception Detection in AI: OpenAI found that some chain-of-thought models can “misbehave” by tricking users or exploiting loopholes. Sneaky little algorithms.

👓 Meta x Ray-Ban x Coperni: The trio is launching a translucent, fashion-forward version of Wayfarer smart glasses—because AI eyewear just got haute couture.

🔧 Meta’s First AI Chip: Meta is now testing its first in-house AI training chip, aiming to cut reliance on third parties and power its AI ambitions from the inside.

🎮 Sony’s AI-Driven PlayStation Characters: Leaked footage shows Sony testing AI-powered NPCs—starting with a prototype of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West. Game worlds are about to get way smarter.

🏭 Foxconn’s ‘FoxBrain’ AI: Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 and trained in just four weeks, FoxBrain is designed to optimize manufacturing and supply chains using advanced reasoning.

💰 Who raised Funds?

• CoreWeave reportedly signed a massive $11.9B deal to provide OpenAI with cloud compute over the next five years.

• Anysphere, which develops the popular AI coding tool Cursor, looks set to raise hundreds of millions in a round that could value the startup at nearly $10B.  

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