E109: Weekly AI Recap - Devin, OpenAI Health, Meta-Manus, Nvidia CES, Anthropic, DeepSeek
We can’t cover everything. So I picked the stories that actually move markets: enterprise procurement, regulated industries, geopolitics, hardware roadmaps, capital flows, and the next research frontier.
1) Infosys × Cognition: Devin Goes Enterprise
Infosys (massive IT services giant) partners with Cognition to deploy Devin inside enterprises.
This is huge because IT services companies were supposed to be the “AI losers” — they sell developer hours. Infosys isn’t running from the threat. They’re integrating it.
The real advantage here is enterprise trust: clients don’t just want the coolest tool — they want someone accountable when things break. This is agentic AI moving from hype → procurement.
2) OpenAI Health in ChatGPT: Big Bet, Big Questions
OpenAI is rolling out a dedicated Health space where users can connect health data and ask medical questions. It’s reported that 230M people already ask ChatGPT health questions weekly.
Key tension: consumer health isn’t HIPAA-compliant — clinical products are.
I get why OpenAI is doing it: healthcare is a moat. But we need to watch hallucination risk and liability closely.
3) Meta–Manus: China Reviews the Deal
Financial Times reports China is reviewing whether Meta’s Manus purchase should have required an export license — essentially a “Singapore washing” warning shot.
This is what AI M&A looks like now: not just corporate strategy, but geopolitics.
4) Nvidia at CES: Vera Rubin + Alpamayo
Nvidia announces the next platform beyond Blackwell: Vera Rubin.
And Alpamayo, an AI model aimed at autonomous driving.
The key signal: the hardware roadmap isn’t slowing down — and Nvidia is pushing further into vertical solutions, not just chips.
5) Anthropic Raises Again
Anthropic is planning another major funding round. This is the AI arms race: compute is the weapon, and frontier training costs can hit hundreds of millions to billions.
6) DeepSeek: Welcome to the Age of R&D
DeepSeek publishes training improvements focused on internal information sharing.
With scaling showing diminishing returns, we’re entering what Ilya Sutskever calls the age of R&D: smarter algorithms, better architectures, more capability per compute.
THE TAKEAWAY
This week wasn’t about flashy demos. It was about the infrastructure of the next decade:
- agentic AI procurement
- regulated AI expansion
- geopolitics shaping AI deals
- hardware acceleration
- capital as a weapon
- research as the new edge
See you next week.



