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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2 days ago
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.
Last week
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).
Last week
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.
June 30, 2025
Matt from Netlify, Arize conference update, Mastra Speed Run, and AI News with Tyler
Abhi gives us an update from the Arize conf last week, we do a Mastra speed run, we talk some AI news, and Matt from Netlify joins us.
June 23, 2025
AI Code Editors, AI Security with Rene from Casco, Alexandra from CutzAI, and all the AI news
We discuss our favorite AI code editors, chat with Rene from Casco and Alexandra from CutzAI, and finish up talking about all of the AI News from the last week
June 16, 2025
Multi-agent systems, edge functions support, security corner, and AI News
We discuss AI News, AI Startup School, have security corner with Allie, discuss multi-agent systems, and talk about Supabase edge function support in Mastra
June 9, 2025
A "Course" as an MCP Server, Lauren from Ampersand, and AI News
We discuss AI News, talk about the first ever "course" as an MCP server, and finally chat with Lauren from Ampersand about their MCP server that unlocks 150+ integrations.