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Happy Monday, AI family, and welcome to another AI Valley edition. This issue takes 5 minutes to read.
Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:
The AI agent hype just got humbled
Unitree debuts H2 humanoid robot
Wikipedia is feeding AI, starving itself
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources
Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…
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THROUGH THE VALLEY
In a new interview, AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy (ex-OpenAI, ex-Tesla) challenged the hype around AI agents. While the industry has labeled 2025 “the year of agents,” Karpathy believes we’re entering something slower and more difficult: the decade of agents.
He argues today’s large language models are still far from behaving like dependable digital interns.
Reinforcement learning often rewards lucky guesses instead of real reasoning.
Coding agents lose track inside unfamiliar codebases and generate unnecessary boilerplate.
LLMs struggle to generalize because they remember too much, unlike humans, who forget and abstract.
Reliability is still far off, and reaching 99.9% accuracy may take as long as going from 0% to 90% (we’re not even solid at 99% yet).
Why does it matter?
Karpathy believes the next era is less about artificial intelligence replacing people and more about augmented intelligence: AI as a cognitive power tool. Today’s models, he says, are closer to “compressed human knowledge we can remix,” like a supercharged Wikipedia, rather than autonomous workers.
The path to AGI may be slower and more incremental than expected. If Karpathy is right, the biggest advantage will go to teams that excel at human-AI collaboration long before full autonomy becomes real.
Unitree has unveiled H2, its new flagship humanoid robot, standing 180 cm tall, weighing 70 kg, and equipped with a human-like face. Early demo footage shows the robot performing dance and martial arts routines with impressively smooth motion, precise joint control, and improved stability.
The H2 features 31 degrees of freedom, up from 27 in the previous H1 model, enabling more natural reach, better balance, and enhanced human-like movement. Its full human-scale design allows it to operate seamlessly in environments built for people, including interacting with doors, tools, and height-standard work surfaces.
Unitree appears to be building a two-tier product strategy:
H2: a premium humanoid focused on agility, lifelike performance, and high-end use cases.
R1: a lower-cost developer platform priced at around $5,900, recently included in TIME’s Best Inventions list.
Why does it matter?
With H2, Unitree is positioning itself more aggressively in the premium humanoid category while growing its ecosystem through the accessible R1 platform. The launch highlights increasing competition in large-scale humanoid development, as Chinese robotics firms accelerate toward commercially deployable models in areas like logistics, service, and manufacturing.
Wikipedia is starting to feel the effects of an AI-shaped web. According to Marshall Miller from the Wikimedia Foundation, human pageviews have dropped 8% year-over-year.
Miller points to two key reasons:
AI search tools now answer queries directly without sending users to original sources.
Younger audiences are turning to short-form video platforms like TikTok instead of reading articles.
Why does it matter?
Ironically, Wikipedia remains a core data source for the very AI models now summarizing its content without attribution. Miller warns of a dangerous feedback loop: fewer visitors mean fewer contributors and fewer donors. That weakens Wikipedia’s quality and diversity, which then degrades the AI models relying on it. Over time, AI could end up training on increasingly shallow knowledge.
The decline comes as AI-generated content becomes more dominant across the open web. A report from Graphite, based on 65,000 URLs, found that AI-written articles now make up just over half of all published content online. The surge accelerated after tools like ChatGPT became mainstream.
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THE VALLEY GEMS
What’s trending on social today:
World's most valuable private companies, per MB:
1. OpenAI: $500 billion
2. SpaceX: $400 billion
3. ByteDance: $330 billion
4. Anthropic: $183 billion
5. xAI: $113 billion
6. Databricks: $100 billion
7. Stripe: $92 billion
8. Revolut: $75 billion
9. Shein: $66 billion— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales)
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