What we’ve been up to

Sapien Builder Casting Call:
As a reminder: The Sapien Builder Casting Call is live. Show us your agents or recent builds and pitch your best ideas for using agentic AI. We are reviewing submissions now, and your input will directly shape Proof of Quality and its use cases with agentic AI.

Sapien Team Takeover:
“As we work on new features internally– something I’ve learned is that Ux is almost like an art piece– everyone has a different perspective on what the design means.”

Today, our third Takeover of the year had us speak to the amazing Elizabeth Dorfman, our UX engineer! Elizabeth revealed some details about the balance of using AI in coding while keeping human feedback at the core of it all. We also learnt she likes her eggs over easy.

Read the full transcript right here: Discord Team Takeover live Thread

🚀 What’s New in the App?

While we’re still in the transition phase, the following tasks are available and taken care of for you!

Current task Overview:

1. 😂Thinking Comic Lines (NEW)

2. 😂Thinking Comic Lines QA (NEW)

3. 👩‍🍳 Gastro Tag – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

4. 👩‍🍳 Gastro Tag QA – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

5. 💬 Emotion Prompt – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

6. 💬 Emotion Prompt QA – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

7. 🧩 Multi Choice Error Review – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

8. 📦 Logic Path Vietnamese QA

New Tasks:

Thinking Comic Lines is live right now! Including a QA version for high reputation users, we’re happy to be able to offer more tasks as we’re in our transitional phase. We need your voices to record famous lines, quotes, riddles, and make sure AI can understand their meaning.

Our Voices in the World

We were cordially invited to two spaces this week, one by our friends at Heurist , and one just earlier today hosted by Basic Attention Token!

The Heurist Space resulted in an intriguing conversation between our Product Manager Ali Malik and speakers from Heurist, Project Mave, 21 DAO, and GPT360 about the benefits and challenges of Vibe Coding and the skill shift necessary to make the best use out of those tools. Heavily recommend a listen: Vibe Coding @ Heurist

Another topic that is top of mind for most of the world is how AI algorithms are already influencing the way we consume content and, more importantly, information in general. Our Marketing Coordinated Moritz Hain joined The Brave Show  hosted by the team at Basic Attention Token alongside speakers from Gloria AI, Public AI, and the LaZAI Network to speak on algorithmic impact, skill erosion, and what users can do today to use AI in a way that helps. Here’s how that went down: The Brave Show: Is AI Controlling Us?

Where are we going?

The Sapien 2026 Roadmap! We are smoothing out the final details before sharing our goals and our means to achieve them this year.

What else happened in AI?

The World outside of Sapien:

Tesla Drops “Autopilot” Amid Regulatory Pressure, Launches First Robotaxis:
Tesla announced it has discontinued the “Autopilot” name for its driver-assistance system to comply with a California ruling that the branding misled consumers. New Tesla vehicles now ship only with adaptive cruise control standard, while the more advanced Full Self-Driving (FSD) features move to a $99/month subscription model. The change follows a judge’s finding that Tesla overstated Autopilot and FSD capabilities, prompting a 30-day license suspension in California unless the company dropped the Autopilot label. 

At the same time, Tesla rolled out its first true robotaxis – Model Y SUVs operating in Austin with no human safety driver on board (though shadowed by supervisor cars.) CEO Elon Musk touted that upcoming FSD updates will allow “unsupervised” driving, meaning that occupants are expected to be able to use phones or even sleep while being driven.

NASA Launches AI Program for Moon and Mars Exploration:
NASA announced a new initiative called FAIMM (Foundational AI for the Moon and Mars) to develop advanced AI models for upcoming lunar and Martian missions . The space agency aims to train large-scale foundation models that can autonomously process the massive streams of information from Moon/Mars rovers, satellites, and habitats. These AI systems will support critical tasks such as autonomous scientific discovery, identifying geological features or signs of life without constant Earth guidance, terrain analysis and navigation for rovers (to plot safe, efficient routes on alien terrain), and long-term mission planning like optimizing where to deploy resources or scheduling experiments on lunar bases . By having AIs that understand the lunar/Martian environment, NASA hopes to increase the self-sufficiency of missions, which is vital given the communication delays and limited bandwidth in space.

SAP & Fresenius Partner on “Sovereign” Healthcare AI Platform:
German software giant SAP and healthcare firm Fresenius announced a strategic collaboration to build a “sovereign AI backbone” for hospitals and clinics. The initiative will create a secure cloud platform for AI in healthcare, allowing sensitive patient data to be processed with strict privacy and compliance controls. By leveraging SAP Business AI and its Business Data Cloud, the platform aims to help hospitals move from experimental AI pilots to full-scale clinical deployment while maintaining data sovereignty under European regulations. Many healthcare providers have been wary of public cloud AI solutions due to privacy laws  and liability concerns. The new platform is designed to keep data governance in the hands of providers and comply with health data regulations, enabling features like on-premise data processing, encryption, and clear audit trails for AI models. Both SAP and Fresenius committed a “mid three-digit million euro” investment to the project, and plan joint investments in startups to build an ecosystem of AI-powered clinical tools.

You almost made it through January, Sapiens! We won’t stop building.