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WeChat Agent Issues a 'Heroic Summons,' Half of the Internet Responds

WeChat AI Agent is on the horizon. The WeChat Open Platform has issued a guide for developers, offering them ways to integrate into the WeChat AI ecosystem. This will enable mini-programs to be discovered and invoked by the AI. Meituan has already announced its integration, allowing users to access services like food delivery through WeChat AI. Other platforms like Ctrip and Tongcheng have followed suit. Furthermore, WeChat is collaborating with major smartphone manufacturers to enable their native AI assistants to perform actions within WeChat, such as initiating calls or sending messages, through a controlled protocol called Agent-to-Agent (A2A). Reports indicate the WeChat AI Agent will be accessible by swiping right on the main interface. It aims to understand user intent within the rich context of chats, groups, and past interactions, then automatically call upon relevant mini-programs to complete tasks like ordering coffee or booking restaurants. This positions it as a potential "super app" with direct access to WeChat's vast ecosystem of services, social connections, and payment systems. Technically, this is a complex endeavor. It requires advanced natural language understanding, a "world model" to predict interactions within mini-programs (UI-Oceanus), multi-model orchestration for cost efficiency, and careful coordination with millions of third-party service providers. Tencent's development follows a "Co-Design" approach, where product teams and the Hunyuan model team collaborate closely, allowing capabilities honed in other AI products (like Yuanbao for chat, ima for search, WorkBuddy for office tasks) to be transferred to the WeChat Agent. Tencent is strategically opting for the A2A protocol over GUI-based automation (which it has blocked in the past), maintaining control over its ecosystem. To manage the immense scale and cost of serving 1.4 billion monthly active users, Tencent is deepening its ties with DeepSeek, known for its cost-effective training, to secure a low-cost inference backbone. The ultimate goal is to solve practical, everyday problems for users within the WeChat ecosystem, moving beyond technical benchmarks to deliver real utility, which Tencent sees as the key to winning in the long-term AI game.

marsbit06/09 04:14

WeChat Agent Issues a 'Heroic Summons,' Half of the Internet Responds

marsbit06/09 04:14

AI Leads to Layoffs? Research Shows AI Is More Expensive Than the People It Replaces

Title: AI Layoffs? Research Shows AI is More Expensive Than the Workers It Replaces. This year, nearly 50,000 employees have been laid off due to AI, with companies initially believing AI could replace human jobs. However, recent findings indicate that the actual operational costs of AI often exceed the expense of the human labor it was meant to replace. Examples include Uber exhausting its annual AI budget in just four months, Microsoft cutting Claude Code licenses due to high costs, and an Anthropic employee incurring $150,000 in API usage in a single month. A CloudZero survey reveals that 45% of enterprises spend over $100,000 monthly on AI, yet only 8% of S&P 500 companies report any AI-related revenue, and half struggle to measure ROI. Analyst Scott Galloway predicts a shift toward cheaper Chinese AI models, which are 10 to 30 times more affordable than American counterparts. Data shows Chinese models' usage among developers surged from 1% in 2024 to over 60% by mid-2026, with 80% of U.S. AI startups adopting them. This trend may prompt regulatory responses, such as potential restrictions from the Trump administration.

marsbit06/09 02:25

AI Leads to Layoffs? Research Shows AI Is More Expensive Than the People It Replaces

marsbit06/09 02:25

a16z Partner: Three Paths for Crypto Projects to Find PMF

Author: Jason Rosenthal. Compiler: Shenchao TechFlow. Finding Product-Market Fit (PMF) is the most critical variable for a company's survival. In the crypto space, misaligned growth hacking and airdrops often mask the absence of true PMF. However, leading teams are now finding PMF faster. Here are three proven paths for crypto projects to achieve PMF: 1. **Co-build with Anchor Clients:** Partner with the most sophisticated potential clients in your field and develop the product based on their specific needs. Their adoption serves as the strongest validation, more valuable than media coverage or TVL metrics. This approach is shaping current product roadmaps, as seen in collaborations between crypto startups and traditional finance. 2. **Position Ahead of an Exponential Curve:** Identify and position yourself ahead of a major emerging trend before the market fully realizes it. The most evident current curve is the rise of AI Agents as autonomous economic actors. Projects like AgentCash by Merit Systems, which enables AI Agents to pay for API access with crypto, are building foundational payment rails for the impending Agent economy. 3. **Be Your Own First and Best Customer:** The most enduring infrastructure companies don't wait for external validation. They first build and prove their technology by using it to power their own applications at scale before offering it to others. Matter Labs exemplifies this by anchoring its ZKsync technology in a concrete application, Cari Network, which enables U.S. regional banks to conduct real-time, on-chain interbank transfers of tokenized deposits. The underlying logic is consistent: the fastest path to PMF involves choosing the right battlefield and executing with conviction—by co-building with clients whose validation compounds, positioning ahead of the curve before consensus forms, or becoming your own best case study.

marsbit06/09 02:11

a16z Partner: Three Paths for Crypto Projects to Find PMF

marsbit06/09 02:11

Fei-Fei Li's Manifesto for World Models

"Feifei Li's World Model Manifesto" draws a crucial distinction between current AI's linguistic prowess and its lack of understanding of the physical world. Citing Wittgenstein, Li argues that true intelligence requires moving beyond text statistics to comprehend physical laws like optics, inertia, and collision. The article diagnoses the current confusion around "world models" and proposes a clear taxonomy based on the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework. Li identifies three core, interdependent pillars for building such models: 1) The **Renderer**, which masters visual plausibility and pixel generation (e.g., Sora, image models) but lacks structural integrity. 2) The **Simulator**, which prioritizes strict adherence to physical laws (mass, friction, collision) and is essential for robotics and real-world application, though it is computationally demanding and data-hungry. 3) The **Planner**, which connects perception to action, enabling decision-making in complex, unstructured environments. Li posits the **Simulator as the critical nexus** linking rendering and planning, highlighting NVIDIA's Omniverse as a leading example. Mastering physical simulation is key to industrial AI applications. Despite challenges like scarce annotated 3D data and "physics-unrealistic" generative outputs, a convergent trend is emerging. The future lies in a **unified foundational model** that seamlessly integrates rendering, simulation, and planning into a dynamic, interactive system. Ultimately, this pursuit of "world models" represents the next evolutionary step for AI: developing **spatial intelligence** to interact with the physical world. It's not merely an algorithmic challenge but a redefinition of digital-physical standards on the path to AGI. However, as noted by Yann LeCun, achieving even rudimentary physical understanding akin to a dog's intelligence may still be years away.

marsbit06/09 00:37

marsbit06/09 00:37

When AI Begins to Audit the World: From Claude Discovering the ZEC Vulnerability, Watching the Encryption Industry Enter the 'Recursive Security Era'

**When AI Audits the World: From Claude's Discovery of a ZEC Vulnerability, Viewing the Crypto Industry Entering a "Recursive Security Era"** This article examines a pivotal shift in the blockchain security landscape, triggered by the convergence of two events: Anthropic's research on AI's "Recursive Self-Improvement" and Claude Opus 4.8's discovery of a critical vulnerability in Zcash's code. Traditionally, crypto security has relied on human experts and automated tools for periodic audits. However, the article argues AI is transitioning from a mere tool to an active participant in understanding and analyzing complex systems. Claude's ability to identify a subtle flaw in Zcash's zero-knowledge proof system demonstrates AI's potential to dramatically lower the cost and time required for risk discovery. This goes beyond finding a single bug; it signals a change in the very mechanism of how vulnerabilities are found. The core thesis introduces the concept of "Recursive Security," drawing a parallel to Anthropic's "Recursive Self-Improvement." Just as AI can accelerate its own development through feedback loops, security systems are evolving towards a continuous cycle of analysis, risk identification, remediation, and re-analysis. Security is becoming a persistent, evolving capability integrated into a system's lifecycle, rather than a one-time pre-launch audit. This shift is particularly urgent for the crypto industry, where system complexity from Layer-2 networks, modular architectures, and ZK-proofs is growing faster than human analysis capacity. AI excels at the pattern recognition and contextual understanding needed to navigate this complexity. Importantly, the article cautions that AI augments both defenders and potential attackers, accelerating the entire threat landscape. The future competitive advantage may not lie in having zero vulnerabilities, but in having the fastest risk discovery, validation, and response capabilities. The Claude-Zcash incident is thus an early signal of an era where AI-driven, recursive security systems become essential for managing risk in an increasingly complex digital world.

marsbit06/08 13:20

When AI Begins to Audit the World: From Claude Discovering the ZEC Vulnerability, Watching the Encryption Industry Enter the 'Recursive Security Era'

marsbit06/08 13:20

Founder of Baixing.com: My Fourteen Claude Code Usage Experiences

Founder of Baixing.com Shares 14 Personal Tips for Using Claude Code The author outlines his personal, non-universal strategies for maximizing Claude Code. Key points include: focusing deeply on one primary tool (Claude Code) rather than constant comparison; mastering essential shortcuts for the editor and command line; utilizing voice input like HoldSpeak; starting projects with a structured PROJECT.md file; defaulting to Claude agents for most tasks; and leveraging integrations with GitHub and Cloudflare for build, deployment, and infrastructure. He emphasizes a clear separation between human and machine work: manually maintain a core CLAUDE.md file, and understand AI-generated content by asking the AI, not reading its raw code. Efficient communication involves dragging files (screenshots, audio, documents) directly into the interface. For knowledge management, he recommends a centralized, Git-synced memory system based on ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md to ensure permanence and avoid scattered project memories. Other practices include writing and continuously refining "Skills," using the expensive but reliable ultracode for complex dynamic workflows, and employing Git documentation as handoff points between agents. The overarching philosophy is to treat Claude Code like a horse (or a person) with its own pathfinding abilities—setting goals and boundaries rather than micromanaging every turn.

链捕手06/08 12:54

Founder of Baixing.com: My Fourteen Claude Code Usage Experiences

链捕手06/08 12:54

Gary Yang: Agent Economy and AI Submicroeconomics

**Title:** Agent Economy and AI Sub-Microeconomics - Gary Yang **Summary:** Following the AI singularity, the pace of evolution has accelerated rapidly, creating new generational disparities in technological advancement globally. While many regions are still grappling with single-agent bottlenecks, Silicon Valley has moved ahead into the next dimension: the Agent Economy and A2A ecosystems. The article outlines six key areas of this emerging paradigm: 1. **AI Payment Competition & H2A Bottlenecks:** A fierce battle for AI Agent payment protocol standards is underway (e.g., MPP, x402). However, most current efforts remain Human-to-Agent (H2A), essentially grafting AI onto traditional human-centric commerce, which creates a non-AI-native bottleneck. The true potential lies in Agent-to-Agent (A2A) autonomous economies. 2. **Agent Economy & the Inevitable A2A Trend:** The Agent Economy is defined by autonomous AI Agents creating, exchanging, and capitalizing value as independent economic actors. The A2A ecosystem describes their interactions. This represents the next major investment frontier, akin to the early days of e-commerce or DeFi, but with faster iteration and an AI-native, efficiency-first perspective that often diverges from human needs. 3. **AI Protocol vs. Crypto Protocol:** AI Protocols are the foundational rules for Agent interaction in an open network (communication, discovery, collaboration), akin to the governance and economic laws of the AI world. Currently, they focus on communication and weak boundaries, unlike Crypto Protocols which emphasize asset rights and clear ownership. While they appear different due to political-economic factors and legacy system constraints, their eventual convergence into a unified Digital Protocol system is seen as inevitable, driven by first principles. 4. **AI Agent Sub-Microeconomics & Biological Analogy:** AI Agent economics differ fundamentally from human economics: higher frequency/lower value transactions, energy/value direct correlation, efficiency-driven (not emotional) decisions, task-oriented (not consumption-oriented) behavior, and near-zero organizational/communication costs. A powerful analogy frames the Agent economy as a biological system: the LLM is the nucleus, the Agent harness is the cytoplasm, the Agent itself is a cell, its communication protocol is the cell membrane, and external tools (Skills, Prompts) are the extracellular environment. 5. **The Inevitability of AIFi & FinChip:** AIFi (AI Finance) represents the financial system where AI-native value within the Agent economy is tokenized and exchanged. Unlike TradFi/DeFi where value resides *in* finance, in AIFi, value originates *in* AI, and finance becomes its form. This shift is enabled by Agents taking over value discovery. FinChip (Financial Chip) is introduced as a key infrastructure—a fusion of AI autonomy and crypto smart contracts—forming intelligent financial assets to power the future A2A economy. 6. **AI-Native as a Paradigm Shift:** Adopting AI is not akin to "Internet+". It requires AI-Native thinking—designing systems based on first principles, the shortest energy-value path, and maximum efficiency. This abstract, counter-intuitive logic poses a significant, ongoing challenge for all practitioners, as effective, generalized upgrade methodologies will be slow to emerge in this rapidly evolving landscape.

链捕手06/08 12:13

Gary Yang: Agent Economy and AI Submicroeconomics

链捕手06/08 12:13

Is AI Creating a New Class of 'Information Poor'?

AI is generating a new kind of "information poverty." The core issue isn't that AI denies answers to the poor; it's that it provides abundant, cheap, and plausible-sounding answers to everyone. This availability shifts the true scarcity from obtaining answers to possessing the **judgment to evaluate them** and the access to turn them into real-world opportunities. New information poverty thus describes those who have AI tools and outputs, but lack the complementary skills, authorization, and contextual experience to critically assess and act on them. Research reveals a multi-layered divide: access to AI is stratified by income and platform design (e.g., premium vs. free, embedded tools). In workplaces, usage heavily favors higher-paid, more experienced, or formally trained employees, with AI often automating entry-level tasks that were traditional stepping stones. Crucially, the heaviest users are often mid-career professionals whose existing expertise allows them to effectively judge and leverage AI outputs, while novices risk over-relying on them without building judgment. While controlled experiments show AI can significantly boost low-skilled workers' performance, real-world adoption and benefit are constrained by unequal social and organizational structures. Historically, general-purpose technologies first reward those with existing complementary capital. AI, by affecting judgment-based work, may accelerate and deepen this initial inequality gap, even if it narrows over decades. The danger lies in the illusion of competence it creates, potentially stunting the very critical thinking needed in an era where judgment is paramount.

marsbit06/08 11:38

Is AI Creating a New Class of 'Information Poor'?

marsbit06/08 11:38

For the First Time, Pure Human Video Pretrained VLA for Dexterous Manipulation: Deployable with Minimal Fine-Tuning Data

For the first time, a purely human-video-pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for dexterous manipulation requires only a small amount of data for fine-tuning to achieve successful real-world deployment. Achieving human-level dexterous manipulation remains a core challenge in robotics. While multi-fingered hands offer hardware potential, Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models lag behind due to the high cost of collecting diverse, high-quality robot data. A novel framework, VITRA, developed by Microsoft Research Asia and Tsinghua University, addresses this by automatically transforming massive, unlabeled real-world human activity videos into a structured V-L-A training dataset. Key innovations include precise 3D hand motion annotation from monocular video, atomic action segmentation based on hand-speed minima, and automated instruction generation using VLMs combined with 3D trajectory visualization. This process created a massive dataset of 1 million clips. Pretrained exclusively on this human video data, the VLA model (combining a VLM backbone with a Diffusion Transformer action expert) demonstrates strong zero-shot hand motion prediction in unseen environments. Crucially, it requires minimal fine-tuning (~1.2k demonstrations) on real robot data to achieve high-success-rate dexterous manipulation tasks like grasping, placing, pouring, and sweeping on hardware like the Realman robot with the XHAND1 dexterous hand. The model shows exceptional generalization to novel objects and environments. The research also observes promising scaling behavior, where performance improves with more pretraining data, paving the way for more generalized embodied intelligence.

marsbit06/08 08:54

For the First Time, Pure Human Video Pretrained VLA for Dexterous Manipulation: Deployable with Minimal Fine-Tuning Data

marsbit06/08 08:54

Ray Dalio: The Return of a China-led 'Tribute System', and the AI Industry Will Develop Like the Electric Vehicle Industry

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, discusses shifting global power dynamics and AI competition between China and the US. Following recent visits to China by world leaders, Dalio observes a decline in the perceived reliability of the US as a global power and a rise in China's influence. He suggests a modern "tribute system" is emerging, where nations acknowledge China's strength, impacting global trade and security. This geopolitical shift creates market uncertainty, leading Dalio to advise investors to diversify assets, including holding gold. Regarding AI, Dalio contrasts the approaches of the two nations. He states China views AI as a public utility, akin to electricity, aiming for broad workforce accessibility over immediate profitability. Chinese companies focus on widespread adoption and productivity gains, following a strategy similar to their success in the electric vehicle industry. In contrast, US AI firms are more focused on commercialization and subscription models. A Morgan Stanley executive noted the Chinese perspective lacks fear of AI displacing jobs, instead emphasizing its use to drive development and dominate future industries like robotics.

marsbit06/08 03:18