Mythos, Sonnet 5, GLM-5.2 Dominate the News Cycle | Episode 20

<p>This Week In Startups is made possible by:</p><p><br></p><p>PAYPAL</p><p><br></p><p>Today’s show:</p><p><br></p><p>The US government won’t let you use the most powerful releases from US AI labs… but a Chinese lab is giving away their latest frontier model for free.</p><p>This week, we’ve got three AI CEOs building in image generation (Victor Perez of Krea), mobile agents (Div Garg of The AGI Company), and enterprise governance (Andrew Berman of Runlayer). Together, they’re breaking down what’s really happening underneath all this chaos, and why the industry’s more focused on “minimum viable intelligence” over breaking benchmarks.</p><p><strong>Guests</strong></p><p>Victor Perez on X:<a href="https://x.com/viccpoes"> <u>https://x.com/viccpoes</u></a></p><p>Krea AI:<a href="https://www.krea.ai/"> <u>https://www.krea.ai/</u></a></p><p>Krea 2 Raw and Turbo on Hugging Face:<a href="https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw"> <u>https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw</u></a></p><p>Div Garg on X:<a href="https://x.com/divgarg"> <u>https://x.com/divgarg</u></a></p><p>The AGI Company:<a href="https://theagi.company/"> <u>https://theagi.company/</u></a></p><p>Andrew Berman on X:<a href="https://x.com/berman66"> <u>https://x.com/berman66</u></a></p><p>Runlayer:<a href="https://www.runlayer.com/"> <u>https://www.runlayer.com/</u></a></p><p><strong>Relevant Links</strong></p><p>Anthropic: “Introducing Claude Sonnet 5”:<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5"> <u>https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5</u></a></p><p><a href="http://z.ai"><u>Z.ai</u></a>: GLM-5.2:<a href="https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2"> <u>https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2</u></a></p><p>Yuchen Jin X post: “GLM-5.2 is the open source Claude moment”:<a href="https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2071278256817574297"> <u>https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2071278256817574297</u></a></p><p>TechCrunch: GPT-5.6 restricted rollout coverage:<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/"> <u>https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/</u></a></p><p>AndroidWorld benchmark on GitHub:<a href="https://github.com/google-research/android_world"> <u>https://github.com/google-research/android_world</u></a></p><p>The Information Higgsfield valuation article:<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-video-startup-talks-quadruple-valuation-5-billion"> <u>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-video-startup-talks-quadruple-valuation-5-billion</u></a></p><p>Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF):<a href="https://aaif.io/"> <u>https://aaif.io/</u></a></p><p>Tomasz Tunguz: “When AI Costs More Than The Engineer”:<a href="https://tomtunguz.com/ai-spend-breakeven-2029/"> <u>https://tomtunguz.com/ai-spend-breakeven-2029/</u></a></p><p>Fortune Runlayer raise coverage:<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-vinod-khosla-felicis-runlayer-nanit-30-million-enterprise-ai/"> <u>https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-vinod-khosla-felicis-runlayer-nanit-30-million-enterprise-ai/</u></a></p><p>Gusto:<a href="https://gusto.com/"> <u>https://gusto.com/</u></a></p><p><strong>Timestamps:</strong></p><p>0:00 Making sense of US AI policy</p><p>5:09 Tiny Action Models vs. LLMs</p><p>7:02 Runlayer, AGI Inc, and computer-use agents</p><p>10:05 What does &quot;trusted access&quot; really mean?</p><p>12:37 Why Krea open sourced its image model</p><p>22:21 BREAKING: Claude Sonnet 5 is here</p><p>26:00 GLM-5.2 is the open source Claude moment</p><p>31:58 Personalization and corporate ontology</p><p>41:25 Can we trust Higgsfield&#39;s numbers?</p><p>50:39 Distillation: The threat is real</p><p>58:01 Agentic personhood and corporate rights</p><p>1:03:19 Everyone&#39;s AGI timeline and p(doom) score</p><p>Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter:<a href="https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com"> <u>https://ticker.thiswee