AI Agents Hour
Join Mastra cofounders Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer for weekly conversations about the latest in AI.
They discuss breaking AI news, chat with guests from the industry, and go deep on the technical challenges of building AI agents.
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November 25, 2025
#50
Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3, Agents in Slack, Phone a Farmer, Tony from Runloop - 50th episode!
It's a showdown between Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3! Today we discuss our first impressions, what we are hearing, and how the new models stack up on the benchmarks. In the future, will there agents in every slack? How is the Mastra v1 coming along? What other AI news is going on? Abhi and Shane talk with others from the Mastra team to find out! We also chat with Tony from Runloop.
November 17, 2025
#49
Chinese Models! Preview of the Great MCP Debate
Today we finally talk about all the Chinese LLM companies that you should know about. We preview the Great MCP Debate with Allie, and discuss all the AI news.
November 11, 2025
#48
Does MCP Suck? TSAI Conf Recap, Ismail from Superagent
Today we talk about MCP and about all the recent online conversations around how much it sucks. We discuss the TypeScriptAI Conf, have Ismail from Superagent join us, and do all the normal AI news.
November 5, 2025
#47
Is TypeScript the King of AI? Plus CopilotKit, TSAI Preview, and Mastra Agent Studio
Is TypeScript the new King of AI? Today we talk about Mastra Agent Studio, we discuss the AI news (including a bunch of new models), chat with Atai from CopilotKit, and then preview the TSAI Conf (sold out but you can attend virtually, go to tsconf.ai to register)
October 27, 2025
#46
Mega Guest Episode! Databricks, CodeRabbit, MongoDB & Osmosis
Today we have 4 guests joining in! We have Andre from Databricks/Neon, Erik from CodeRabbit, Gaurab from MongoDB, and Professor Andy from Osmosis. We also highlight some of the recent AI news from the last few days. This includes model provider updates, Vercel workflows, and even some AI music.
October 23, 2025
#45
Spies among us? OpenAI Atlas, Veo 3.1, Vibe Coding Gemini, Claude Skills and more
Today we have a mega AI news day with a ton of new things to talk about. We talk veo 3.1, vibe coding with Gemini, Claude skills & memory, OpenAI Atlas, and much more. We also have security corner with Allie. Last but not least we discuss the spies that may live among us...
October 14, 2025
#44
Mastra fundraise, Is Lovable Dying? Superagent, Ragie, and more AI news
Today we have guests from Superagent and Ragie. We highlight the Mastra fundraise, talk about Lovable, and give our take on AI music. Finally we answer the question... is Abhi a Vibe Engineer?
October 6, 2025
#43
OpenAI Dev Day recap and guests from Netlify and Weaviate
OpenAI Dev Day Recap, AI news, Sean from Netlify, and Daniel from Weaviate!
October 2, 2025
#42
Mastra Model Routing, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and all the other AI news
AI Engineer Paris Recap, Mastra Model Routing, and all the crazy AI news from the last two weeks!