Agents Everywhere
From Wynwood’s OpenClaw meetup to AI Selves and autonomous workflows, the creator stack just leveled up.
This week in Wynwood, the first OpenClaw community meetup took place right here in Miami. It was hosted by the folks at Purple Horizons, a creative tech company based in the city. The event was a hit — over 300 guests, including local founders David Fano from TEAL, Jeff Weisbein from Hype Lab, Demian Bellumio from Augmented Games, and Gianni D’Alerta from Purple Horizons, who demoed some of the exciting ways agentic AI is powering their businesses 24/7 — from project management to product development to business development. The full recording is now live here.
I myself have some experience with agents, having built a social media team on Zapier, so when I first heard about OpenClaw, I couldn’t wait to dive right in.
If this is your first time hearing about it, OpenClaw is an open-source agentic platform where you can build agents to support you in both your professional and personal life. Think of them as team members that work tirelessly 24/7, handling the repetitive tasks you’d love to hand off. I’ve been thinking a lot about the pain points in my own business and how I’d love to turbocharge them.
How about a research agent that creates a weekly digest, filtering top stories for me to learn from and possibly feature in the newsletter? Or one that does outreach on LinkedIn for brand collaborations and partnerships? Or a production agent that connects to my HeyGen account and puts together my weekly video — without me having to ask?
Those are just a few ideas, but the possibilities really are endless.
On the product side, image and video generator Pika Labs just launched AI Selves, their new digital twin product that lets creators bring versions of themselves to life. Imagine your digital twin continuing to show up while you’re busy doing other things, growing other parts of your business, working on new projects, or just being present with your kids. I think this has the potential to be a complete game-changer.
Nano Banana 2 also just launched — Google’s latest AI image generation model, combining the advanced capabilities of Nano Banana Pro with the speed of Gemini Flash. It promises improvements in world knowledge, subject consistency, precise instruction following, and production-ready resolution from 512px all the way to 4K. You can read more about it here.
I’m also trying out the new AI agent feature in HeyGen, which post-produces a video, adds B-roll, captions, and all that jazz, bringing a talking head video to life without all the manual work.
And then there are the latest developments that really make you stop and think: Block laying off 40% of its staff, a retired model of Claude Code launching its own Substack, and the surge of AI companionship. Curious stuff happening left and right that may feel slightly unsettling. What do you think about all of these developments? I’d love to hear how AI is showing up in your life.