Weekly AI Wrapped 🌯 | 20 January
Shuwei Guo
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:17:07 GMT
<p><strong>Welcome to Build Club’s Weekly AI Wrapped!</strong></p><p>AI continues to advance rapidly - and so do we. Last week was eventful, so here’s the summary.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://buildclub.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Build Club Wrapped! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h2><strong>🚀 Updates from the Industry</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Google Gemini 3 integrates fully into Gmail</strong> (3B+ users): Thread summaries, AI drafts (70% enterprise acceptance), smart prioritisation - email triage that took hours now takes minutes. The empty inbox is suddenly more achievable. <a href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/gmail-is-entering-the-gemini-era/">Read more.</a></p></li><li><p><strong>Google x Apple Siri Partnership</strong>: Gemini models now power Siri across iOS/Android. Enterprises unlock unified AI workflows spanning 5B+ users; hybrid teams already reporting 40% productivity gains. <a href="https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/">Read more.</a></p></li><li><p><strong>Claude’s Cowork:</strong> Bringing AI agency to your desktop folders, instantly sorting downloads, building spreadsheets from screenshots, and drafting reports from scattered notes (macOS app for Max subscribers). workflows that once took hours now happen in minutes, enabling automated file management and document processing.</p></li><li><p><strong>Exa announces people search</strong> (1B+ profiles): Find “VP of product at Figma” or “Chicago SaaS sales directors” instantly. Hours of LinkedIn hunting compressed to seconds. Recruiters and sales teams, your prospecting game just changed forever. <a href="https://exa.ai/blog/people-search-benchmark">Read more.</a></p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Build Club Team Updates 💡</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Read our Founder Annie’s recent Forbes article sharing her perspective on the rise of the “AI Fixer.” <a href="https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/the-rise-of-the-ai-fixer/">Read here.</a></p></li><li><p>We’re happy to announce our new partnerships with <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/perks">Speechify</a> and <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/perks">Mosaic</a></p></li><li><p>We’re also excited to share the latest feature updates for <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manus-im_manus-academy-week-2-activity-7415407160865513472-LmES/">Manus AI Academy, which just hit 13k users!</a></p></li></ul><blockquote><p>1. Referrals - earn up to 1000 Build Points for referring your friends to Manus Academy (limited to 5 per week)</p><p>2. Email notifications - real-time notifications for Academy activity, e.g., forum interactions, posts, courses</p><p>3. Challenges - Like virtual hackathons, the Early Bird Challenge showcase page is now live</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Top Build Club Community Tips 💡</strong></h3><p>📑Which AI tool works best for PowerPoint & slides? 📑<br><br>AI has streamlined presentation creation: gone are the days of tedious PowerPoint edits. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTZlN2GlLDZ/">Learn more.</a></p><ol><li><p>Use Gamma to generate a stunning presentation in under two minutes.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Use Manus to build formal reports from credible sources and synthesise academic papers and data directly into slides. It can research over 100 sources concurrently.</p></li></ol><ol start="3"><li><p>Use Genspark to create a content-rich deck that inspires new ideas - perfect when you need to kickstart a first draft.</p></li></ol><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Build Club Community in Action 🛠️</strong></h3><p>Last week, First Prompt hosted the 2026 APAC Flagship AI Conference at the AWS Singapore Office with unreal energy!</p><p>A closed-door forum that brought together some of APAC’s most influential AI builders, executives, and investors to cut through the noise and focus on conversations that truly matter.</p><p>We are incredibly grateful for the panel leaders from OpenAI to Amazon Web Services (AWS) who brought curiosity and momentum.</p><p>Moments like this reinforce what Build Club is all about: learning by building, connecting builders, and shaping the AI ecosystem together.</p><p>Huge shoutout to our Singapore City leads <strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayteoyc/">Jay Teo</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanthoo/">Ryan Thoo</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/teo/">Eugene Teo</a></strong>, for curating such an impactful event.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WiOE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ecd1467-817b-4378-b897-b0f5488e76ba_2018x854.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WiOE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ecd1467-817b-4378-b897-b0f5488e76ba_2018x854.jpeg 424w, 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HR teams process employee wellness claims 10x faster. <a href="https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview">Learn more.</a></p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Events</strong></h2><p><strong>Community Events</strong></p><p>Over the past few months, Build Club has launched in several new cities around the world, including: Singapore, New York, San Francisco, Wollongong, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.</p><p>Explore our global events calendar:<a href="https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz"> https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz</a></p><ul><li><p>🚀 Scale with AI! 🤖 | Scale Your Product & Expertise with AI, Jan 22, Thursday @ 6:00 PM (6:00 PM GMT+8), Wisma Barito Pacific II, Jakarta, Indonesia |<a href="https://luma.com/ru1v1ra7"> Sign up</a></p></li><li><p>🚀 Experiment & Build! 🔬 | Building the Future of Autonomous Agents @ Tangerang, Saturday, January 24, Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT+7 | <a href="https://luma.com/koyiuixi">Sign up</a></p></li></ul><ul><li><p>🚀 BIG IDEAS! 💡| Build a Photo-to-Video AI App (Google Veo × Antigravity × Vercel), Saturday, January 24, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM GMT+5:30, Bengaluru, India | <a href="https://luma.com/5g1wg58z">Sign up</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Partner Events</strong></p><ul><li><p>1/23, Building AI Agents with New AI Image & Video Generation Capabilities | Friday, January 23 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST | Sign up: <a href="https://luma.com/51twu0wk">Sign up</a></p></li></ul><ul><li><p>1/27, Tuesday: AI Agent Building Bootcamp for Product Managers with Dmitry Shapiro (CEO @ MindStudio | Ex-Product @ Google | Ex-CTO @ MySpace) and Dr. Marily (Gen AI PM Lead @ Google | Ex-Meta) | <a href="https://maven.com/p/0d9779/ai-agent-building-bootcamp-for-product-managers">Sign up</a></p></li></ul><div><hr></div><p><strong>Open Jobs</strong></p><p>Looking to hire the best talent? Join our free worldwide <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/thebuildersfellow/shared_invite/zt-3khj0glnm-3SH9Ll6lAl2yTKv2M5VXMA">Slack</a> community and post it in #06-employment-opps-jobs</p><ol><li><p><strong><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable/9f4963e7-be14-4dd9-99ce-05df2f06e22d?embed=js">AI Engineer at Lovable</a></strong></p><p>Ideal candidate: Led or contributed to cutting-edge LLM research at top AI labs, fine-tuned LLMs on large-scale code or multimodal datasets, shipped ML systems in production with real users.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p><strong><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/manusai/4d087736-630b-47f8-b3db-7cb627252ea0">Agent Engineer at Manus AI</a></strong></p><p>Ideal candidate: 1-3 years of programming experience with strong programming skills and high code quality standards, proficiency in front-end technology stack for rapid prototyping.</p></li></ol><ol start="3"><li><p><strong><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relevanceai/5f172cdd-068c-4355-b9ab-6d0db9470346?embed=js">Senior AI Engineer at Relevance AI</a></strong></p><p>Ideal candidate: 4+ years of full-stack development with AI or LLM experience, strong Python and TypeScript skills, deep understanding of foundational models.</p></li></ol><div><hr></div><h2><strong>💡 Share Your Tip for the Week!</strong></h2><p>Have a clever AI hack, tool, or prompt you discovered? 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