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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5 days ago
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."
Last week
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.
Last week
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.
August 4, 2025
Hackathon Updates, Guests from Oso, Confident AI, and Smithery, along with AI News
Today we check in on the Mastra Templates Hackathon, a few of the judges will stop by (Smithery, Confident AI)! We chat with Oso security and, as always, we discuss recent AI news.
July 28, 2025
Mastra Templates Hackathon, Claude Code is King, and Guests from WorkOS, Recall.network, Clinicamind
Today we kick-off the Mastra Templates Hackathon by talking about the categories, prizes, and judges. A few of the judges stop by (WorkOS and Recall)! As always, we discuss AI news (like Claude Code being king of code gen) and have a Mastra user chat with us about what they are building (Clinicamind).
July 21, 2025
Agent Memory, LongMemEval, Goal Manipulation, Memory Poisoning, and all the AI News
Today we go deep on Agent Memory and discuss how Mastra scored on the LongMemEvals benchmark. We will do Security Corner with Allie and discuss Goal Manipulation and Memory Poisoning. We also talk through the latest happenings in AI news.
July 14, 2025
Builders Learn ML, AI News (Grok 4, Windsurf, AI browsers), Mastra Updates and the 8 second ad era
Today we do another edition of "builders learn ML" with professor Andy from Osmosis. We talk AI News (including the Windsurf/Grok 4 news), Mastra updates, and talk about the era of 8 second ads.
July 7, 2025
WTF is the "Eval Loop" - Evals Deep Dive, AI News, and Mastra Docs with Paul
Today we talk AI News, we get some Mastra Docs updates from Paul, and we do a deep dive on Evals. In our deep dive we talk about common questions when starting to think about Evals and discuss the upcoming Mastra Evals roadmap.