Itās Wednesday, January 28th: This week, we look at Kimi K2.5 building full products from images and video, Qwen3-Max-Thinking tackling long, complex problems step by step, and Anthropicās new MCP apps that let Claude work directly in Slack, Figma, and Asana, plus standout early-stage roles on teams putting AI into real-world use.
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In Todayās Top Tools, we spotlight some of the most innovative, creative AI apps that we recommend adding to your stack.
1ļøā£ Kimi K2.5
About Kimi K2.5: Moonshot AI trained this one on 15T visual-text tokens with native multimodality from the jump. The headline feature is agent swarms - K2.5 spins up 100+ parallel agents that decompose complex tasks and coordinate execution on their own. Generates working front-ends from screenshots, handles video-to-code. Open weights under modified MIT, benchmarks have it competitive with Opus 4.5 on agentic evals.
2ļøā£ Qwen3-Max-Thinking
About Qwen3-Max-Thinking: Alibaba's trillion-parameter flagship with a dedicated thinking mode for extended reasoning - hit 100% on AIME 2025 and HMMT math benchmarks. The architecture supports explicit tool calls mid-reasoning (retrieval, code execution, browsing), which makes it a fit for agentic workflows with heavy tool-calling. Trained on 36T tokens, roughly 2x Qwen2.5, available via Alibaba Cloud API with thinking duration controls up to 38K tokens.
3ļøā£ MCP Apps
About MCP Apps: Anthropic shipped interactive tool support inside Claude this week. Build Asana timelines, draft and send Slack messages, create Figma diagrams, pull Hex charts, search Box files, all without leaving the chat window. Runs on Model Context Protocol, the open standard they donated to Linux Foundation last year. Live on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise at no extra charge, Salesforce integration coming.
Here are a few standout opportunities from companies building at the edge of AI. Each role is selected for impact, growth potential, and relevance to our community.
Founding Growth Lead (Outbound & Ops), Marketing, Lightmeter ($50Kā$90K + 0.25%ā0.75% Equity)
āWeāre SendGrid for salespeopleāthe first email delivery network built just for sales. Our service integrates with HubSpot and Salesforce to get outbound email into inboxes, not spam. Founded by the CEO who built phpList to 10K SaaS customers and 28 billion emails yearly, weāre solving the deliverability problem that kills cold outreach. Youāll own outbound and ops from day one.ā
Founding Creator / Head of Production, Creative, Bloom ($65Kā$150K + 0.10%ā0.50% Equity)
āWeāre the app that builds mobile appsāmaking app development as easy as talking into your phone. YC X25 backed, weāre unlocking a creator economy for software. We need a founding creator to drive our brand and virality: someone who ships in hours, leverages AI daily, and has hands-on built a 30K+ following. This is your chance to shape culture at the company changing how the world develops software.ā
GTM Engineer, Marketing, Relace ($100Kā$160K)
āWe build the models and infra that power coding agentsāused in production by Lovable, Magic Patterns, Codebuff, and 20+ other AI codegen startups. Just raised $23M Series A led by a16z. Our Fast Apply model merges code at 4300 tok/s, beating Sonnet and Qwen on reliability. Youāll own the GTM technical roadmap: systems, integrations, experiments across SEM, intent-based outbound, and automation workflows.ā
Founding Growth, Marketing, Terrakotta ($120Kā$200K + 0.10%ā0.50% Equity)
āWeāre unlocking $6 trillion in commercial real estate held by aging landlords. Our AI-powered platform mines public records, autodials contacts, and leaves personalized voicemails in your voice. Weāve already helped hundreds of thousands of sq ft trade hands. Backed by top vertical funds, weāre the default pipeline for CRE dealmaking. Youāll build the growth engine from zero.ā
Senior Geospatial Data Scientist, Research, KorrAI ($75Kā$85K CAD)
āWe help asset owners and insurers see hidden infrastructure risks before they become costly failures. Spun off from a Canadian Space Agency research project, we use satellite radar (InSAR), GNSS, LiDAR, and AI to monitor mines, railways, and data centers for ground stability. Youāll own end-to-end delivery of InSAR and multi-sensor deformation analysisāhands-on work blending scientific depth with operational impact.ā
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