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Weekly AI Wrapped 🌯 | 9 February

Feb 9, 2026

Shuwei Guo

Welcome to Build Club’s recap and AI news wrap!AI continues to advance rapidly - and so do we. Last week was eventful, so here’s the summary.<hr><h3>🚀 Exciting updates from the Industry</h3><ul><li>OpenAI Codex MacOS app release: it handles multi-file edits and debugging loops autonomously (1M+ devs already testing betas). Your debugging sprints just got a relentless sidekick. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/openai-launches-new-macos-app-for-agentic-coding/">Read more.</a></li></ul><ul><li>OpenClaw launches as an open-source AI agent: an open-source AI agent framework dropping with integrations for task automation (forked 50k+ times in 24hrs), chains research-to-execution without API lock-in. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/openclaw-open-source-ai-agent-rise-controversy-clawdbot-moltbot-moltbook.html">Read more.</a></li></ul><ul><li>Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps: Ask questions, summarise chats, or turn threads into reports/action lists instantly - right inside Slack (10M+ workspaces). Hours of work into seconds. Your team chats just got smarter. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/anthropic-launches-interactive-claude-apps-including-slack-and-other-workplace-tools/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Apple’s AI video editor is here: Creator Studio Pro auto-edits footage, adds assets, and creates polished videos in one go. Pro users say editing is up to 3× faster. From raw clips to pro-looking reels fast. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/with-apples-new-creator-studio-pro-ai-is-a-tool-to-aid-creation-not-replace-it/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Grok is unbanned in Indonesia: After stronger misuse controls (1.8M+ images blocked), xAI’s Grok is back - following Malaysia and the Philippines. Image generation is now subscriber-only. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/indonesia-conditionally-lifts-ban-on-grok/">Read more</a>.</li></ul><hr><h3>Build Club Team Updates 💡</h3><ul><li>This week, we ran our second-ever<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7424940130920128512"> Manus Webinar</a>.</li><li><a href="https://x.com/buildclub_/status/2016594000887832746">Manus Early Bird Challenge</a> Finished with 1.5k submissions.</li><li>Check out our trailer for our <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manus-im_manus-academy-the-role-of-a-product-manager-activity-7425192496613376000-cdAs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAEq6qksBAL-Hy2-RfIe1BO9U3avM1J_vgQs">Manus Academy Product Manager course</a>.</li><li>We’re happy to announce our new partnership with <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/perks">Smallest AI</a>.</li><li>Upcoming hackathon in San Francisco coming up (Feb)! If you have a strong background in AI and are interested in judging, please <a href="mailto:shuwei@buildclub.com.au">email us</a>.</li><li>Last Tuesday, we ran a closed-door <a href="https://x.com/AnnieLiao_2000/status/2016911128010666087">workshop on GTM agents with Relevance AI</a>.</li><li>We launched a new content series on our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUPZoYEDdd5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Instagram</a>! We’re showcasing all the AI tools that will save you hours at work - everything from marketing to operations.</li></ul><h3>Top Build Club Community Tips 💡</h3>🤖 How do you create an AI clone of yourself for marketing? 🤖 AI has streamlined content creation: gone are the days of endless filming and retakes. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUPZoYEDdd5/">Learn more.</a><ol><li>Use HeyGen to build your digital body - feed it three minutes of footage, and it learns your movements, gestures, and energy to create a video avatar that actually feels like you.</li><li>Use ElevenLabs to clone your voice - give it five minutes of recorded audio, and it reproduces your exact tone and delivery. AI, you sound just like real you.</li><li>Use your LLM of choice to write your scripts - prompt a custom GPT trained on your previous content so it writes in your style, on demand, every time.</li></ol>The result? A version of yourself that never gets tired, never messes up - the ultimate marketing asset. 🚀<hr><h3>Build Club Community in Action 🛠️</h3>Build Club TokyoHosted by Build Club Tokyo, AI builders gathered to share insights on speed, execution, and real-world AI building.The talk focused on how early founders use tools like Perplexity, GitHub Copilot,, Notion AI, and Claude - while still valuing manual analysis.Huge shoutout to our Tokyo City Lead,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-asami/"> Marie Asami</a>, for curating such an impactful event, and our speakers from<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/visionpathtech/"> VisionPathTech</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-smith-230000221/"> Jake Smith</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kairo-wilson-b1aa69387/"> Kairo Wilson</a>, and<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobi-lihawa-826939290/"> Tobi Lihawa</a>.<figure><img height="885" width="1179" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U6wB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F619d0401-dc86-4615-9192-1df8c4ead717_1179x885.jpeg"></figure><hr><h3>Events</h3>Community EventsOver 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.Explore our global events calendar:<a href="https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz"> https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz</a><ul><li>💡 Codex Meetup 💡 | Codex Meetup MY, Saturday, February 7, 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM GMT+8, Co-labs Coworking Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | <a href="https://luma.com/88pwpqwb">Sign up</a></li><li>🚀 AI Workflows 🚀 | Trae Friends @ Jakarta x Buildclub.ai Meetup (Boost Impact with AI-Assisted Workflows), Wednesday, February 11, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT+7, ONNI Garden House Lebak Bulus, Jakarta, Indonesia | <a href="https://luma.com/4k5rucxu">Sign up</a></li><li>🔬 Applied AI 🔬 | Folklore Ventures x Build Club: Future of Applied AI, Friday, February 20, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM GMT+11, tenancy 4 level 1/16 Eveleigh St, Redfern, Australia | <a href="https://luma.com/g64lbipn">Sign up</a></li></ul>Partner Events<ul><li>2/10, Augment Yourself with Powerful AI Agents: Live Build with MindStudio | Tuesday, February 10 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST | <a href="https://luma.com/k0smntje">Sign up</a></li><li>2/17, AI Agents 101 - MindStudio AI Agent Build Workshop | Tuesday, February 17 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST | <a href="https://luma.com/g4mcyb0f">Sign up</a></li></ul><hr><h3>Open Jobs</h3>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<a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/manusai/4d087736-630b-47f8-b3db-7cb627252ea0">Agent Engineer at Manus AI</a><a href="https://windsurf.com/careers/e73d0a80-eee6-43a6-8c47-956e8fc52d76">Software Engineer, ML Research at Windsurf</a><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/exa/jobs/z9af6mz-ml-research-engineer">ML Research Engineer at Exa</a><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relevanceai/5f172cdd-068c-4355-b9ab-6d0db9470346?embed=js">Senior AI Engineer at Relevance AI</a><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langchain/17264d5c-0ca3-4c26-9683-dd9b020cc155">Deployed Engineer at LangChain</a><a href="https://careers.trychroma.com/careers/distributed-systems">Distributed Systems Engineer at Chroma</a><hr><h3>💡 Share Your Tip for the Week!</h3>Have a clever AI hack, tool, or prompt you discovered? Comment below!We have begun to take 100 people off our waitlist every week. You can bypass this by subscribing to the newsletter if you are not on the waitlist ;)Interested in Reading More?Hear about what our <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/from-energy-to-legacy-irvan-putra">Jakarta</a> and <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/building-brisbanes-ai-community-ella">Brisbane</a> City Leads are doing to spread energy in their cities.Learn about what Build Club got up to this year in our 2025 recap. <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/a-year-end-note-from-build-club-2026">Read more.</a>See you next time!Build Club Team