Creating a successful business is about managing energy—knowing where to focus and where to pull back can drive growth. In this week’s edition of AI Simplified, we explore how cultivating the right energy within your team fuels progress. From China’s groundbreaking Manus AI agent taking over autonomous tasks to Google’s AI Mode making search smarter, there’s no shortage of excitement in the AI space. Plus, discover Cortical Labs’ first-ever living biocomputer, a breakthrough in merging biology and technology.
In Today’s AI Simplified:
Founder’s Insight: Evaluate activities through energy ROI—boost with transparency and strong team-building.
AI News: China’s Manus transforms autonomous AI, Google AI Mode enhances search, and Cortical Labs unveils living biocomputer CL1.
AI Spotlights: Try Blackbox AI for coding, Sam Altman’s subscription credit idea, and the AI for Business free course.
In physics, energy is a fundamental concept—kinetic, potential, chemical, and more. In our company, we took concept of energy and made it measure of company's culture.
Some people add energy to the company. Some consume it. The same applies to processes and decisions.
How Energy Flows in a Company
✅ Energy-Boosting Activities
• All-hands meetings
• Transparency
• Strong team-building
• Celebrating wins
❌ Energy-Draining Activities
• Internal politics
• Poor performance
• Firing decisions
Some of these activities can’t be avoided, but we always evaluate them through the lens of ROI on energy.
💡 The biggest energy booster? Business success—winning new logos, increasing revenue, and achieving growth.
On the evening of March 6, in Shenzhen, a group of software engineers were testing Manus, an AI system that would shake the world. Manus is a fully autonomous AI agent that doesn’t just assist—it replaces human effort entirely. The world’s first of its kind, Manus performs tasks across industries without human oversight, making decisions with unparalleled speed and precision.
The "Second DeepSeek Moment"
This development comes shortly after China's DeepSeek V3 AI model, which was hailed as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT-4. Manus is a reasoning model that surpasses previous AI models, marking a major milestone in autonomous AI technology.
Manus initiates tasks and dynamically adjusts its approach. Imagine giving Manus a set of resumes—it doesn’t just rank them, it reads, analyzes, and generates an optimized decision on its own.
It operates using a multi-agent architecture, allowing it to break down complex tasks. This enables Manus to perform tasks like generating research papers, designing marketing campaigns, and building entire websites without human intervention.
Currently, Manus is available only to selected testers. The potential is clear: Manus represents the future of AI—autonomous and general-purpose.
Google is rolling out major updates to its AI-powered search capabilities, including an expansion of AI Overviews and the introduction of AI Mode in Search. These features leverage the Gemini 2.0 model to enhance search experiences with deeper reasoning and real-time data retrieval.
Key Highlights:
AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 2.0 in the U.S., delivering faster and more precise responses for coding, advanced math, and multimodal queries.
AI Mode, an experimental feature in Labs, expands AI-generated responses for complex, multi-step queries with advanced reasoning.
Google One AI Premium subscribers will be the first to test AI Mode, with broader rollout plans coming soon.
Smarter Search with AI Mode
With AI Mode, users can ask intricate, multi-part questions—such as comparing sleep tracking devices—and receive comprehensive, AI-generated insights. The system uses a “query fan-out” technique, issuing multiple searches simultaneously to aggregate the most relevant information.
Google emphasizes that AI Mode is built on its core ranking systems, ensuring users can still access high-quality web content. Early testing has shown improvements in speed, accuracy, and factual consistency.
Cortical Labs has introduced the CL1, the world’s first deployable biological computer, integrating living neurons with silicon for real-time computation. Priced at $35,000, it offers a revolutionary step toward AI systems that more closely mimic human intelligence.
Living Neurons + Silicon: The CL1 connects biological neurons to a simulated environment using Cortical Labs' biOS, enabling real-time interaction.
Next-Gen AI Potential: Unlike traditional AI, which struggles with reasoning and hallucinations, this Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) self-programs and evolves.
Future Expansion: Cortical Labs plans to develop biological neural network server stacks, making the technology more accessible via cloud computing.
💡 Will the CL1 redefine the future of computing the way Apple’s Lisa paved the way for modern interfaces? Only time will tell.
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