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

This Week In Startups is made possible by:PAYPALToday’s show: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.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.GuestsVictor Perez on X: https://x.com/viccpoesKrea AI: https://www.krea.ai/Krea 2 Raw and Turbo on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-RawDiv Garg on X: https://x.com/divgargThe AGI Company: https://theagi.company/Andrew Berman on X: https://x.com/berman66Runlayer: https://www.runlayer.com/Relevant LinksAnthropic: “Introducing Claude Sonnet 5”: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5Z.ai: GLM-5.2: https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2Yuchen Jin X post: “GLM-5.2 is the open source Claude moment”: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2071278256817574297TechCrunch: GPT-5.6 restricted rollout coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-limits-gpt-5-6-rollout-after-government-request-says-restrictions-shouldnt-be-the-norm/AndroidWorld benchmark on GitHub: https://github.com/google-research/android_worldThe Information Higgsfield valuation article: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-video-startup-talks-quadruple-valuation-5-billionAgentic AI Foundation (AAIF): https://aaif.io/Tomasz Tunguz: “When AI Costs More Than The Engineer”: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-spend-breakeven-2029/Fortune Runlayer raise coverage: https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-vinod-khosla-felicis-runlayer-nanit-30-million-enterprise-ai/Gusto: https://gusto.com/Timestamps:0:00 Making sense of US AI policy5:09 Tiny Action Models vs. LLMs7:02 Runlayer, AGI Inc, and computer-use agents10:05 What does "trusted access" really mean?12:37 Why Krea open sourced its image model22:21 BREAKING: Claude Sonnet 5 is here26:00 GLM-5.2 is the open source Claude moment31:58 Personalization and corporate ontology41:25 Can we trust Higgsfield's numbers?50:39 Distillation: The threat is real58:01 Agentic personhood and corporate rights1:03:19 Everyone's AGI timeline and p(doom) scoreSubscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.comCheck out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcpFollow Lon:X: https://x.com/lonsFollow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelmFollow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanisThank you to our partners:Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarlandCheck out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanisFollow TWiST:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartupsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartupsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartupsSubstack: https://twistartups.substack.com