William Park

Adnan Fontai

@tinykoala424987 · Jan 12, 2026 9:21 am

It's been a big week for Agentic AI ; Here are 10 massive releases you might've missed:

* Meta acquires Manus AI
* Google launches educational agent sprint
* WSJ lets AI agent run a vending machine
A collection of AI Agent Updates! 🧵
1. **Meta Acquires ManusAI**
Joining Meta to develop agent capabilities across consumer and business products. Subscription service continues. Manus had $100M ARR, $125M revenue run rate, and \~$500M valuation from investors including Benchmark.
Meta doubling down on agents.
**2. Notion Working on Custom AI Agent Co-Workers**
Agents can be triggered via schedule, Slack tagging, or Notion page/database changes. Real AI-first workspace coming soon.
Productivity platform going all-in on agent workflows.
**3. Firecrawl Ships /agent Support to MCP**
Now works directly in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more. Describe data needed and watch it search web, navigate, and return structured data without leaving workflow.
Agent web scraping comes to all major platforms.
**4. Prime Intellect Introduces Recursive Language Models Research**
New research direction for long-horizon agents. Training models to manage their own context. Sharing initial experiments showing RLMs promise for next breakthrough in agent capabilities.
Soon to be able to manage themse