Mavericks, Inc., the developer of advanced AI products including the AI video generation service NoLang, has published the latest issue of Mavericks AI News, a generative AI newsletter that has passed 85,000 subscribers and is one of the largest of its kind in Japan1. The issue was distributed in the week of January 26.
This issue covers the automation of video production through Skills, the instruction set for AI agents released by the video production framework Remotion; Personal Intelligence, the personalization feature Google announced for Gemini; and UCP, a common standard that changes the shopping experience in the age of AI agents. The commentary comes from an engineering team that works on AI product development every day, and it looks at what using AI in real work actually involves.
Mavericks AI News, written by the team behind the AI video generation service NoLang
Mavericks, Inc. is a Japanese startup that offers the generative AI product NoLang. About a year and a half after launch, NoLang has more than 150,000 registered users and has been adopted by more than 60 companies, and the team operates its own product on the front line of AI-driven development.
The generative AI industry moves extremely fast. What can generative AI do right now, and what is really behind the AI services the market is paying attention to? Mavericks places weight on the substantive knowledge that can only be gained in day-to-day product development, which is not visible from the outside.
For Mavericks AI News, a team working at the front line of AI development selects the genuinely useful topics out of an enormous volume of information. Each issue is sent every Monday with original commentary, so that even readers with no background in AI can picture concretely how to apply it starting tomorrow.
Subscribe hereHighlights from this week’s issue (distributed January 26)
Feature 1: Agent-driven video production becomes practical as Remotion releases Skills, an instruction set for AI
The video production framework Remotion has released Skills, a set of instructions written for AI agents. With it, an AI agent such as Claude Code can be given instructions in natural language and generate high-quality animated video programmatically.
Unlike earlier video generation AI such as Sora, Remotion generates video from program code, so the placement of text and objects and the timing of animation can be controlled and edited precisely. For animated video that needs no source footage, automatic generation by AI is becoming considerably more practical.
Feature 2: An assistant that understands you in depth, as Gemini gains Personal Intelligence
Google has begun rolling out Personal Intelligence, a personalization feature for Gemini. The feature lets Gemini draw on information from Google apps such as Google Photos and Gmail, read the user’s situation and intent, and generate an answer on that basis.
Asked about something like replacing car tires, Gemini can identify the model of car and how it is used from past email and photos, and make a suitable suggestion. That is context the user no longer has to supply. For privacy, connections can be configured app by app. AI is moving closer to being a personal assistant.
Feature 3: Toward shopping in the age of AI agents, as Google announces the UCP standard
Google has announced UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol), a common standard for completing a purchase while talking with an AI agent. The standard was developed together with companies including Shopify and Walmart, and it lets users go from comparing products to paying for them inside an AI chat, without moving back and forth between multiple sites.
Announced alongside it, Business Agent lets a merchant easily build an AI that answers questions about its own products. Both are a significant step toward agentic commerce, in which an agent handles purchasing on the user’s behalf.
What comes next
Mavericks, Inc. is a product-out generative AI startup, and it regards returning the knowledge gained from its own advanced product development to society as an important part of its work. Through Mavericks AI News, the company will continue to publish reliable, practical information for the business people, developers, and digital transformation leads who are opening up the AI era.
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