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Claude Opus 4.5 Coding Revolution, Apple Partners With Google Gemini & Meta Acquires Manus for $5B

Built 2 Scale · 15 Jan 2026 · 1h 05m

What this episode covers

Hosts Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox discuss the 2026 AI landscape, highlighting Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Code as watershed moments for coding dominance, with examples from Shopify's Toby Lutke and Andre Karpathy. They analyze major industry shifts, including Apple's partnership with Google to power Siri with Gemini and Meta's $5 billion acquisition of Manus. The episode concludes with a 'Tool of the Week' segment where Scott builds a personalized baby word tracking app in a weekend using Vibe Coding, illustrating the rise of on-demand personal software.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Anthropic, Shopify, OpenAI, Meta, Manus, Apple, Google
Products
Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Health, Gemini, Siri
Tools
Claude Code, Vibe Code
Also
Toby Lutke, Andre Karpathy, Mark Zuckerberg

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