kudzai george

Building @pozaHQ, the trust and underwriting layer of agentic payments | prev @clevabanking, @FlexID_Official, @WorldBank | @MIT '19

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

At Poza, we’re building global money tools for Africans and the diaspora.

As AI agents begin to transact on our behalf, one question matters: how do we prove they had permission?

Delegate the task. Keep the authority.

[Poza @pozaHQ]

Four years ago, our founder wrote that finance was moving toward “banking and transacting everywhere and for everyone.”

AI agents are the next participant in that system. But capability is not authority.

Read our first Poza Insights essay: https://t.co/bFba6q85Ok

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Teaming up with Shopify to make shopping and checkout easier in Muse. Shoppers find more. Shops sell more. More partnerships like this coming soon.

[ZSE Technician @zsetech]

#ECONET_INFRACO market cap dropped below US$600m after losing 12.47% today. It listed at a US$1b valuation in April and has lost over 40% in less than six months.

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

It’s incalculable what you can achieve with the patience of a Tibetan monk, the spirit of a pirate, and the skills of a Navy SEAL.

[DHH @dhh]

Every day offers a new choice not to be a miserable c*nt.

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@ScottiePippen "For how long have we been striving for greatness? since the moment as kids when we realized the world could be coquered". from the greatest paper salesman

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@staysaasy So truly though, there will be an expected massive gap between those who have the discipline to follow through the "10 decisions per day" inspired by AI, and those who find that overwhelming

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@_waela You can also look at automation as a ladder, and not full autonomous. So you can automate research and recommendations, prepare an order for review, etc, whilst keeping the authority yourself

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@aiwithadb like there is some conspiracy in the matrix to take you down😅

[Utkarsh Sengar @utsengar]

Just booked plane tickets via Muse. Never going back.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

My “armchair” thoughts on the personal agent race:

1. Muse is poised to become the leader. The app is intuitive, and Meta is aggressively promoting it across all its properties. Once you use the Muse app, you realize that it makes little sense for an agent to live in an existing messaging app like iMessage. Unless Meta runs out of compute or something, I think this will become the company’s most successful homegrown app after Facebook. It will be much bigger than Threads.

2. ChatGPT is probably still the personal agent leader because it already has 1B+ users. OpenAI’s models, computer use, and voice are arguably better than Muse feature by feature. But it’s hard to build one product for both work and personal use, and harder still to serve enterprises and consumers with the same UX. Even for work, I started using Grok Bot because the Work/Codex split remains too confusing. I’m sure the team is cooking, and we’ll see something good in the next few weeks.

3. Grok Bot isn’t really a Muse competitor because it’s focused on work. Multiple bots naturally fit team-based knowledge work IMO. My bull case for Grok Bot is that it's a few features away from becoming multiplayer agentic Slack for both bots and humans.

4. Google is obviously the dark horse candidate. All these personal agents live off Gmail, Google Calendar, and your Google app's data. Google has their own personal agent in Spark but the last I checked it's a secondary tab in Gemini. I think Google needs to be far more aggressive in making Spark the primary experience and making it intuitive and competitive with Muse. Google however doesn't have a great track record in multiplayer AI...

5. Speaking of multiplayer, nobody has figured this out yet. I can’t easily add my spouse to a Muse chat to plan a vacation. I also can’t loop coworkers into ChatGPT or Grok Bot threads. Multiplayer AI today mostly means tagging bots in Slack. Every major provider is probably working on this, and I think it will be the next big unlock.

My personal AI stack right now is Muse for personal, Grok Bot for cloud tasks, Claude for specific use cases, and ChatGPT for everything else.

But I think we’re going to see some major updates this week.

Everyone should design their personal skills and files so they’re easy to port between harnesses and agents. Otherwise, you’ll spend half your time moving from one tool to another.

[Global King Maker 👑 @joshuafirimajnr]

It took us 4 months to get one AI voice agent a working phone number.

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[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@Zaydenf9 just gotta stay focused and curious on the 'right' things

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@thunkoid the mind certainly need to wander freely (and uninterrupted) from time to time

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@XtremeMotivated @CoachToby9 Agreed as well. The trap is when "Your ego-to-ability ratio is greater than one." Elon. Or your ambition-to-ability ration. you still need to take feedback, and hire folks better than you,etc

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@XtremeMotivated @CoachToby9 Agreed as well. The trap is when "Your ego-to-ability ratio is greater than one." Elon. Or your ambition-to-ability ration. you still need to take feedback, and hire folks better than you,etc

[Kacie Ahmed @kacieahmed]

soft launching doing a masters in quantum computing

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

Stumbled upon this book in the library by chance, and it turned out to be one of the most powerful books I’ve read lately.

An excellent read by the phenomenal Dr. Mark Nasila, particularly as AI increasingly becomes an instrument of economic power, national security, and geopolitical influence.

Which layers of the AI stack should African nations prioritize(etc)? If you're curious, check it out.

[kudzai george @kudzigeorge]

@thekitze the great lock in of q4

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform.

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