We have massive news in the world of AI agents. Codex just added slash goal to their desktop app, which will allow agents to work on long running tasks for more than a day. Anthropic convinced Andre Karpathy to join the team, and Google is rolling out their own version of OpenClaw, and that's just the start. Welcome to the first ever AI super app update. Every week, I'm going to break down what is happening across the frontier AI agent companies and platform. The goal of this series is simple, to make sense of all of the updates that actually matter. Model updates, platform changes, new AI agent abilities
so that we can stay on the frontier of using AI agents. My name is Riley Brown. I'll be doing this every week. Please hit like and subscribe. It helps me out a ton. Anyway, let's not waste any more time. Let's dive in. Alright, guys. We have a lot to cover today. I'm gonna try to move through it swiftly. This is gonna be a really fun one. Okay. First, we're gonna be talking about some updates from Claude. For the first time in a couple of weeks, I actually went back to the terminal a little bit. I I was actually vibe coding and I kind of missed the terminal. Anthropic released a brand new feature that's really fun. And so for the longest time, if you wanted to run Claude code, you would go to your terminal and you would run Claude and this would start up Claude and you kind of work in this linear chat that works
down.
Well, you can type in Claude
agents and this is a new way to interact with AI agents in the terminal. And so this will allow you to kind of itask.
Hey, can you please research the latest news on the Google IO conference, especially Spark?
And so when I press enter, it fires it off and it shows up here in working. Hey, can you please research all the updates to Cursor. I want a very nice clean list of all their new updates.
Can can you please look up all the different updates to Codex, please?
Tell me all the latest updates of Claude code, do some research, figure out all the latest updates. I'm on inline links of all this stuff.
Tell me other updates in the world of AI. Turn it into a little landing page for me.
Right. So we just fired off five different tasks. So the way that you navigate
is you can scroll to each one and then if you press right on the keyboard, it takes you to the chat. If you press left on the keyboard, you can go back.
And so it allows me and so I can see that it's using the web research specialist, is a custom sub agent that I created a long time ago. This is kind of fun way to interact with AI agents
in the terminal, which is pretty fun.
And Anthropic just released this. And next, we have really big news. Andre Karpathy
joined Anthropic.
So Andre Karpathy had this to say on May 19. Personal update. I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I agree. That's why I started this series.
I am very excited to join the team here and get back to r and d. I remain deeply passionate about the education
and plan to resume my work on it in time.
And so many people are speculating how big this deal was, how much is he getting paid. Some people are speculating that it's over a billion dollars. Many people are saying that this is kind of the tech equivalent
of Ronaldo joining Manchester City. Some other people are saying that this will cause a migration back to Claude from Codex. And if you've been watching my videos, you know that I've actually switched over to Codex, at least that's why I'm doing all of my agentic tasks just because they have a more unified product. But if you look at all of the talent they have on their team,
you know, super.com,
their CTO left to join Anthropic. Nikki Palmer, a DEBT CTO,
left to join Anthropic.
Brian McCann, another CTO from you.com,
Workday CTO left. Bunn was acquired by Anthropic. People are genuinely leaving the most prestigious
jobs in the world running massive companies to be an individual contributor
at Anthropic. And as Anu put it earlier this week, it is the era of the polymathic individual contributor.
We're seeing this across the board. Individuals
with a ton of talent and areas of expertise, especially within AI and tech,
are being recruited
for hundreds of millions of dollars. And so this is just a very interesting trend. So the final update today regarding Claude is that they've just made some general improvements to their desktop app. You know, some people like the terminal interface for using Claude. I'm not one of those people anymore because they've created a desktop app. Claude has created one of the best super apps. A super app, in my opinion, is defined as an AI platform that you can chat with, that you can do knowledge work with, and that you can do coding tasks with, and it connects to all of your existing integrations.
These AI agent platforms should connect to all of your existing tools and then you should be able to create automations
and then whatever your AI agent does,
it should be able to open up a little interface here on the right. And I'll be talking about super apps for the rest of time because I think this is the way it's going for enterprises,
for business use cases. This is going to become a full browser. So that's what I define
as an AI AI powered super app. Now I just think overall,
the Claw desktop app has gotten a lot better over the past few weeks. It's a lot easier to use skills. I still don't like the fact that I can't use my
skills. This is a skill that I created on Cowork called Riley Quality Content. If I go to Claude Code, I can't actually use that same skill. It doesn't exist.
So that is why I'm using Codecs.
I don't understand
the relationship between Cowork and Cloud Code. Just give me one single app that can do anything, coding task or knowledge work. I think Cowork was one of their biggest mistakes. I will say when doing coding tasks on this app, the browser works a lot better. At the very beginning when they just released the new Claude code feature, the browser was a little spotty. It is getting a lot better, and I just think it's more responsive. So those are the updates today for Claude. Okay. So now let's move on to some updates coming from OpenAI
and Codex. The same way that Claude has their desktop app, which is their super
app.
OpenAI has Codex,
which is their version of a super app. One thing that they added to the Codex app officially
is
slash goal.
On Codex, their super app, you can now type slash goal,
enter, and you'll see it pop up right here. And now I can give it a super long task.
And I just ask Codex, and you can think of goal in Codex as a way to tell Codex the objective for the current task so that it can stay oriented around the outcome,
not just the command.
So I could, in theory press command n for a new task slash goal
and we see the goal indicator right here. I want you to create
by the end of this, I want you to create 30 iOS apps.
Create the code for 30 different iOS apps. First, create a research step. I want you to research 30 iOS apps and I want these
to be downloaded
on my phone. And so I want you to send me build links and use the
we could use the, uh,
porous ios
skill.
Okay. So now it's running. It's sent as goal.
And so now it's just a different mode and Codex knows
that it needs to work for longer. It's not just focusing on the command, it's gonna stay aligned towards the goal. It'll do more planning
and it's not going to stop until it reaches that goal. And I've seen people run this for you know, some people have shown that it runs for four hours and some I saw some guy post on Twitter that it ran for one day and fourteen hours for one of his deep coding tasks.
The next big update is you can now share plugins on Codex. Let's take a look at this post from the OpenAI developers account on Twitter. You can now share plugins
in Codex across teams. Today, we're launching plugin sharing in Codex. We're making it easy to share plugins with the people you work with. One example is the First Week Quest plugin. From the plugin directory, I can actually find this plugin that I built. I can go into it. I can see the default prompts available. Now I wanna send it to one of my teammates. I'm gonna click the share button and we have this modal here where I can specify what teammate I wanna share this to or I can also change this to anyone at the workspace. What this means is after I click save, I've now shared this plugin for anybody in the workspace. And I can copy this link and share it out with my team, and they're able to see this plugin in their own directory. So what do I mean by that? Plugin sharing also works the other way. In the shared with you tab, so if I go back to the plugins directory, I can see all the plugins that have been shared with me by my teammates. I can see an example here called finalize code plugin, which for example, this plugin my teammate wrote, which is very helpful before I finish my PRs. So on Codex, if you go to the plugins tab and you scroll down here, these are all of the different plugins
that you can use within Codex. And it looks very similar inside Claude Code except they call them connections. If we were to go to the Vercel
plugin,
a plugin is basically an assortment of apps and skills and other types of files that are bundled together and you can create these plugins and then you can at mention them when you're using codecs. Right? I can at mention the Vercel plugin.
But if you wanted to create your own plugin, you could just say, hey, can you please create a plugin that does x y or z? It should interact with this API and do this. I wanna create some skills within it. I'll update some documents and I want you to make those the skills within those plugins. Right? You can just ask Codex to create a plugin or you can type slash
plugin creator and say, hey, can you please guide me through the steps of creating a plugin?
And you can run this and Codex will actually guide you through the process of creating a plugin in Codex. And once you're done creating that plugin that ideally would help you solve a specific workflow, you can share it with the team. And they made it easier to share it with team members and have this page
where all of the plugins that have been shared with you will show up, which is really cool. And the next next update,
which is full design mode, is another update inside Codex that makes it closer to being a full vibe coding platform. You used to have to use Replit,
Lovable, or Bolt to get these, like, design mode features directly in the app. Well, Codex,
and maybe soon Claude Code, these tools are becoming full vibe coding platforms. Here's the video from the OpenAI developers account.
If you go up to the top and you click what is the button that you click there? You click this comments button. You can leave annotations.
And then when you leave annotations, you can press the settings button and this will allow you to edit the text color,
font size, and you can edit it
directly, which is really cool. Here you can change the font weight
directly.
You can see it here.
It's being changed
and this is becoming a platform where you have absolute control over any type of app or website
or HTML file that you have open inside Codecs. And one thing I do wanna say is this isn't actually full design mode like on Cursor which directly actually edits the code.
What happens here is, is, let's say I wanted to edit this right here
and I would press the settings button. By default, I can just leave a comment. This annotation feature was originally designed to leave a comment. I can just say make this bigger. And when I enter that, it adds it as an annotation. Right? It sees the context, it sees that it says make it bigger and stores it as an annotation.
So then all I could say is do these,
I can run it and it will just do those annotations. It'll make those changes. And so all this feature is
is let's say I wanted to make this text bigger and I clicked on this right here. I could either add it to annotation that says make it bigger or I could come in here directly
and I could change the font size to say 25
and then I could describe these, make all these headings
this size
and when I press enter, it adds this as an annotation.
And so instead of editing the code directly, which is probably the ideal experience, instead it adds it as an annotation which will tell the AI to change it from 18 font to 26.
I can just say go. And because I have steering on by default, it'll just keep making all of these changes as I say them. But notice here it went back to normal. This is not going to change until the AI makes these changes.
And you can see here after refreshing,
this is bigger,
this is bigger, you know, I changed this to be smaller.
But the point is you have two tools at your disposal.
You have the annotation feature and the screenshot feature. Whatever's here on your screen, you can immediately take a screenshot
which automatically adds it to your clipboard. You could upload a screenshot. You have that screenshot for and then now you have annotations.
Annotations,
I could say return
this to previous,
and I can fire off that annotation.
The next update by OpenAI
specifically on Codecs is called
AppShots and I'm telling you this is one of the most fun features to use ever.
So
what I can do, let's just say I am using this app right here. What I can do is I can press both command keys at the same time. Watch this. It
immediately adds
the website that I'm on and it takes a screenshot and brings me to Codex. I can say, please tell me about these things,
do research.
Let's say I'm in my email. I use Superhuman,
which is just an external
desktop app to control my email. No matter what application you're on, can press command command.
Please research,
uh, this company
and write a draft,
uh, response.
Right? I can just
do that right then and there. And the final example I wanna show you is one that since I have the Google Docs,
um, integration,
I'm able to work in a Google Docs. So I can just say for a video outline, this is a random example I came up with. Codex, write your four paragraph essay
here
in this doc. So now we can press command command. Watch this.
Go. Now what it's going to do is because
there it knows exactly which document this is and since it has a Google Doc skill, it's actually just going to write its response directly in this Google Doc here.
Oh my god. It's literally writing in the Google Doc with look, you can see that it's using computer use. If we go back to Codecs, you can see that it's actually typing it directly in the document.
So you can very easily, no matter what app you're using, is you can press command command,
give context to Codecs
and then just say to do something and it can actually control your computer in the background and do the task that you need. This is the future of super apps. Alright. So the next
area I wanna move to is Google and Gemini.
And the first thing I wanna talk about with Google and Gemini
is they had a
conference this week, Google IO. It's their biggest conference for their entire company where they announce all these different things. In my opinion, from an AI perspective, it a nothing burger.
Basically, nothing happened except
for one specific thing that I can't stop thinking about which is Gemini Spark, which we'll get to in just a second. But the main overall focus from this conference,
from this Google conference, they were just mentioning AI agents a ton. But my main problem is that I don't know what their super app is. I showed you that Codex and the Claw desktop app, those are definitive agent platforms.
If you want to use AI
and you wanna use it as a power user and get things done and be able to accomplish long tasks
and connect it with all of your tools, know exactly which platform to go to if you're OpenAI
or if you're Anthropic.
But with Google, you don't know. If you wanna do agentic tasks, do you use anti gravity, which is their like kind of coding agent platform?
Or do you use Gemini,
which now has a new thing called Spark which is their version of Manus or Perplexity Computer?
It's a little bit confusing, I'll get to it in a second. Or do you use Google AI Studio
or is this only for building apps? My thesis around this whole space is that all of these types of tasks,
agent tasks, app building tasks, marketing based tasks, automation tasks, people are gonna want to do it from one single platform. They want all of their skills in one platform, their integrations in one platform, and then the web browser is what will give you that interface. Right? Because remember, these platforms, if we look at Codex,
right, it comes with a browser. And this browser is a full browser. So, like, depending on what task you're working on, you can have any interface pop up here or you can search the web or have AI use browser use. Right? You can use browser use to
control the browser. The AI can just control the browser.
And so that is the paradigm I think we're moving towards. And with Google, you just don't know what their super app is. But I do believe
that the Spark announcement
is actually interesting. So this right here is a leaked video of Gemini Spark, but it's actually going to be a part of Gemini.
And so it looks a lot like that kind of distinction between chat
and
co work, you know, in the Claw desktop app except now you have chat and Spark. This app between chat
and Spark has has the potential
of being a super app because here you can add your folders so it can also control your the folders on your computer,
but it also can spin up virtual computers so it can do agentic agentic tasks in the cloud. It also has all of the different connections.
It is very agentic.
It shows the, like, the trajectories that the agents go on so they can think for a really long time and it just connects to all of your apps. It connects to your Google apps.
Here, you can connect your tools. It has Canvas, deep research, guided learning.
You can create music, video, images.
You can use Notebook LM. You can have it search through your Google Drive and photos. This has so much potential.
But where I lose interest,
I just don't trust them to focus enough because they're also making updates to anti gravity, which is like the AI developer platform at Google. They're also making updates to AI Studio, which is their vibe coding platform, their version of Lovable.
And so my thought is it's not gonna be as good of an agentic app platform as Codex.
It's not gonna be as good at vibe coding as Lovable or Replit. It's not gonna be as good at doing like true engineering work as Cursor,
the anti gravity platform. Right? The anti gravity platform is not the best at anything.
And right now, that is the story
of Google
and Google DeepMind, the pioneers of AI. They are not the best at anything. Their video model's worse than SeedDance.
Nano Banana's worse than ChatGPT Image two. Their LLMs are nowhere close to frontier level. Their vibe coding tool's not the best. Their chat experience is not nearly as good as the normal chat version on Claude. Claude, I think, is the best chat app. Nothing that they've created is state of the art.
You're gonna have to really go deep into their bag. Right? They have video analysis is one of the modalities
in their Gemini app. You can upload a video, you can analyze that. That's like the one thing it's best at. But other than that, I hope they just announce a code red and focus all their attention on one of the apps. And maybe it's just the Gemini app and they focus on the chat and the Spark. But who knows? Right? We'll see. And just speaking about not being the best, the final update for Google is just their new model, and the new model is Gemini 3.5
Flash.
So everyone was hoping for this model to be released, Gemini 3.5 Pro, which was their Frontier model, but by the looks of it, it's not going to actually be frontier.
They seem to be well behind OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of creating a really good
agentic model like Opus or 5.5
from OpenAI.
And if you wanna watch Theo's video, you'll you can dive deeper into his yet a lot of negative things to say about Google. I'm not gonna agree or disagree. I just talked to enough people that said it's not worth testing. It's really fast but expensive. It's not as good as Composer 2.5 which is Cursor's new model, which we'll get to in a second. And so, yeah, pretty disappointing on the AI front for Google. Right? They released kind of this new video model called Gemini Omni. It's just not as good at generating video as Seed Dance by ByteDance,
which is a Chinese company. So again, they're just not the best at anything. Then finally, we're moving to Cursor. Their first big update is they released a brand new model. If you don't know already, x AI or SpaceX
agreed to buy Cursor for $60,000,000,000
with a $10,000,000,000
opt out clause.
So Cursor now has access to a lot more compute
and they were able to train Cursor 2.5.
They're training a bigger model which will be Composer three, I believe, which is supposed to be way better and I'm telling you, this model is really good. I
really am enjoying using Cursor and their in app browser is arguably better than Codex.
If you haven't used Cursor in a while, it looks a lot like Codex
in the sense that you can you have your workspace here on the left, you can add a new project,
and I can, uh, open a folder here, call this test test,
and we can open this up. So we're in a new project
in test test, say, please create
a cool
landing page that looks like link
tree. And so we are using their brand new Composer 2.5 model,
which hardly uses
any tokens. It it is
very, very cheap to use. Like you could use it for like an hour and I don't think it would cost you a dollar. And so it is really fast and fun to use and they do have an in app browser just like Codex. As you can see here, we can search,
you know, this is a full browser just like
Codex. We can go to any website that we want.
And here, it's already done,
I believe.
We can open up this landing page. Look at that. That I did not skip the video at all there.
It's already done and it knew who I was, Riley Brown. I'm gonna say please
make
this in the style of cursor.
It is much faster. This would not go nearly as fast if you use Codex or even Claude.
It is significantly faster and it's even searching the Internet. This model is pretty close to Frontier, especially for front end work. And now it's generating all the code, making some changes,
and boom. I think if we hit it with a refresh,
there we go. It went to Cursor,
grabbed the brand.
This is looking pretty good. Yeah. Cursor has a brand new model. It's much faster
and I have yet to make a video on Cursor. I may make a complete guide on Cursor talking about all the new updates, but it is a lot like Codecs. You just can't create documents,
PowerPoints,
and spreadsheets the same way you can in Codecs
or Claude Cowork. They don't open up naturally here on the side, but my guess is that's coming very soon because Cursor, in the SpaceX announcement where they announced that they were going to acquire
Cursor, they said we are trying to build
the
next generation platform for coding and knowledge work. So I know they want to get in this market of using AI agents in business. This is a full super app contender and I'll be covering it very closely going forward. They are becoming a full super app which means they're gonna have feature parity with Codex and Cloud Code. If you come up here, not only do they have a marketplace which has all of the, uh, integrations,
same thing as Codex
and Cloud Code, they now have automations. So that's what we covered today on this week in super apps.
The point of all of this is that we have these companies that are going to be worth trillions of dollars all moving to try and capture the enterprise market, and it is going to be a bloodbath. They're gonna battle to the death to try and capture all of this value and in the process they're going to create platforms that are so good and it's going to move so fast because they're competing. It gives me a reason to go through and like study all of the stuff that's going on with these companies and if there are more contenders out there, I will follow those companies as well. And by the way, if you guys wanna support me and take a look at the project that my team and I have been working on, we've found a way to add quad code and codex to iMessage. So we bought the domain choruschorus.com.
This is my AI agent James Bond. Hey James, what are you up to? And so I'm talking to Claude Code. Very soon, you can talk to Codex and so you can actually sign in with your ChetGBT subscription
and your AI agent will respond and it can do anything. Like, I can say, like, build a landing page
for me, Riley Brown,
you know, and it will do it. It already created a little landing page and this is running in the cloud. You can see here that it's running. It has like a little sandbox sandbox domain.
I can do this from my phone. I can do this from iMessage on my computer and it all lives on chorus.com.
You can name your agent. Mine is named James Bond.
And just like Claude, uh, just like Codex or Claude Code, um, you have files,
skills. You can very easily give it a phone number. Like, you can just immediately start texting it. You can add WhatsApp.
Slack is coming next week. All of the connections in the world. And soon, it's gonna become a lot more proactive. We wanna make one that's a lot like easier to get started, and we're just gonna have it start doing tasks for you, and you can create cron jobs. These are my four automations that I have it do. We're gonna simplify the product a lot, and we're making it mobile first. But this is kind of our cloud based mini super app. Our team has been working really hard on it. We've been having a lot of fun building it, trying to figure out its personality and being able to swap in Claude code or codex or any of the open source models. Give this a try. You should get, I think, $10 of free credits. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you here for the next video.