Here are the highlights from the week that was in AI and our spicy takes on what it actually means. 🌶️
This week in AI: Replit vibecodes video, Shopify's CEO reframes what running a company means, NVIDIA breaks voice AI wide open, agents ditch the browser entirely, and someone opened a bar for people dating their AI. We're living in the future and it's weirder than anyone predicted.
On the Chipp side, we're running hands-on workshops to help you build and sell AI agents. Register for upcoming events including Create AI Voice Sales Agents, AI for Fundraising, and How to Sell White-Label AI Agents. Jump into the Agents of Change cohorts if you want to go deeper.
AI Highlights from Around the Web
Replit Wants You to Vibecode Your Next Pixar Short
Replit just launched Animation — a tool that lets you create full animated videos by describing what you want, powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro. No After Effects. No timeline scrubbing. Just vibes and a prompt. Ben Hylak's reaction captures the moment perfectly: "I can't believe this went un-built for so long."
The creative tools gap is closing fast. Six months ago, vibecoding meant apps and websites. Now it means video. Next it'll mean entire campaigns. The agencies that figure out how to wield these tools will eat the ones still billing hourly for motion graphics.
Tobi Lutke Says Running a Company Was Always Context Engineering
Shopify's CEO dropped a bomb: "Running a company is just context engineering internally." His point? The skill of getting the right information to the right people at the right time — the core job of any leader — is now the most valuable skill in the agentic world. And founders have been doing reps for years.
This is the best framing we've seen for why AI-native leaders will dominate. If your company runs on context — and every company does — then the people who can engineer context for both humans AND agents are playing a different game entirely. This is what we're teaching in our cohorts.
NVIDIA's Voice Model Talks and Listens at the Same Time
NVIDIA dropped PersonaPlex-7B, a full-duplex voice model that listens and talks simultaneously. No awkward pauses. No "sorry, go ahead." Real overlapping conversation like actual humans have. It's open source, free, and 1.7B parameters of natural speech. Voice AI just went from "impressive demo" to "uncanny."
Full-duplex changes everything for voice agents. The #1 complaint with AI phone calls is that robotic turn-taking. PersonaPlex kills it. Combined with Chipp's voice capabilities, we're looking at AI sales agents that sound indistinguishable from your best rep. Join our Voice Sales Agents workshop to see this in action.
The Browser Is Now the API
Pietro Schirano built WebMCP — a way for AI agents to interact with any website without ever seeing the UI. He demoed a DoorDash-like app where the agent adds items to cart, applies promo codes, and checks out with the right address. No scraping. No browser automation. The website just... talks to the agent directly.
This is the infrastructure shift we've been waiting for. When websites expose themselves as APIs for agents, the entire "AI can't reliably use the internet" argument evaporates. Every e-commerce site, every booking platform, every SaaS tool becomes agent-accessible. The browser was always just a human adapter — now we're removing the middleman.
Chipp Updates
Upcoming Workshops & Events
We're running free, hands-on workshops to help you build and sell AI agents:
- Create AI Voice Sales Agents — Build voice agents that actually close deals
- AI for Fundraising — Use AI to supercharge your fundraising efforts
- How to Sell White-Label AI Agents — Turn AI into a revenue stream for your agency
All free. All practical. Browse all events →
The Agents of Change Cohorts
Our cohort programs are live — one for technical builders, one for business leaders. Learn how we built Chipp with AI agents and apply it to your own work.
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