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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3 days ago
OpenAI Dev Day recap and guests from Netlify and Weaviate
OpenAI Dev Day Recap, AI news, Sean from Netlify, and Daniel from Weaviate!
7 days ago
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!
Last week
Live from AI Engineer Paris!
We are in Paris at the AI Engineer conference. Learn a bit about what we are seeing on the ground floor and hear from some of the people at the event.
September 16, 2025
Replit's Agent 3, Mastra Templates, Security Issues, and AI News
Special EU edition stream! Agent 3, Mastra Templates, Security Issues, AI News
September 8, 2025
To Eval or Not to Eval, Massive JavaScript vulnerability, Corbin from Artifact, AI News
There was a lot of hate for Evals last week... so should you be using Evals in your AI project? We talk about a massive JavaScript supply chain attack that impacted 18 core NPM packages. We chat with Corbin from Artifact to learn how AI is being used to build an IDE for electrical engineers. Finally, we cover all the other AI news with discussions around AI safety, parenting in the age of AI, AI legal settlements, some stealth models and much more.
September 2, 2025
Going (Nano) Bananas, AI's Axis of Evil, Waffle AI, an MCP Course Platform, and more news
The AI world is going bananas over Nano Banana, so we start by discussing Google's new update. We have a few guests including Manuj from Waffle AI and Akeil who is building an MCP Course Platform. Finally, we cover all the other AI news from the last week including a deep discussion on the AI "axis of evil."
August 27, 2025
95% of AI projects fail? AI News and guests Sherwood Callaway and Richard from Naptha AI
A recent report says that 95% of generative AI pilots are failing! We have a few guests including Richard from Naptha AI and Sherwood Callaway. We talk about the latest Mastra updates as well as cover all the AI news from the last week.
August 18, 2025
The Goose is Loose! Plus Hackathon Awards, Cedar OS, Security Corner, and AI News
Today we review more Mastra Templates Hackathon submissions and give out the rest of the awards! We have guests from Cedar and Vapi. We talk Security with Allie and go into all the latest AI news. We discuss updates from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and xAI (including the Elon/Sam drama)
August 11, 2025
Mastra Templates Hackathon Awards, GPT-5, OpenAI OSS models, and AI news
Today we review some Mastra Templates Hackathon submissions and give out some awards! We will discuss the OpenAI launches last week (GPT-5 and OSS models) and provide some hot takes. Finally, we chat about all the other AI news.