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Zion, hear me! For Season 2 of the Mere Morpheus podcast I'm going to be uploading the Morpheus builder weekly updates. My reason for doing this is to make it more accessible for those who want an update directly via their podcast app and to have them all in one place. If you'd like to participate they are held weekly on the @MorpheusAIs Twitter spaces. So enjoy Episode #82!

Recorded: 16 July 2026

AI SUMMARY: Morpheus hit its biggest usage day ever with July on track for another record month. Growth is driven by rising adoption of GLM 5.2 web and builders switching from expensive centralized AI to open-weight models for real-world coding and development. Interest in decentralized AI agents and open-source infrastructure is growing globally especially among founders in crypto AI and health. Product updates include new node and API gateway releases stronger provider health checks and an upgraded active.mor.org for better network visibility. The ecosystem is seeing expanding use cases like agentic payments and open-source models outperforming closed ones in prediction markets and live trading. The trajectory points toward more providers, more agents, cheaper software creation and eventually radically more accessible digital/physical production through decentralized AI and robotics.

Timeline:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:00:30) Morpheus usage surges as adoption accelerates

(00:05:27) Node updates improve health checks and failover

(00:10:47) Why decentralised AI needs no off switch

(00:13:45) Supply, demand and the Morpheus marketplace flywheel

(00:17:12) Network School, Malaysia and the Morpheus Asia scene

(00:22:28) Agent payments, Base updates and new frontier models

(00:29:48) Robotics, hardware and owning the AI brain