Sapien Weekly Digest

Hey there, Sapiens! Welcome to the first Weekly Digest of the year! 2026 is off to a great start and we’re ready to hit the ground running.

What we’ve been up to

The Next Steps:
Throughout the week, we informed key partners and investors of our new strategy and direction. We will be sharing those updates and our new targets with the wider community shortly!

Sapien Builder Casting Call:
We’re still looking to have conversations with builders of autonomous AI agents. These could be within the community or from without, but every builder is welcome to talk to us as we welcome your input. If you’ve been working with autonomous AI agents on a professional or personal level, you’re just the person we want to talk to about the ideas we had for Proof of Quality and the direction Sapien will take in 2026. If that sounds like you and you haven’t yet, please fill out the form right here!

Sapien Team Takeover:
Today, our amazing Head of Legal Ina Weygant faced the community in our first Discord Team Takeover of the year! Ina answered questions around the legal specifications of how we view Sapien and what to look forward to in 2026. Ina is an excellent writer so read the full AMA here!

🚀 What’s New in the App?

As we’re very close to sharing the new direction, our focus has been on making sure we’re delivering that at the highest possible quality. In the meantime, the following tasks are available to you. We’re aiming to make more available as we go through this transition!.

Current task Overview:

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

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

3. 💬 Emotion Prompt – Easy / Intermediate / Hard

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

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

6. 📦 Logic Path Vietnamese QA

Our Voices in the World

This Wednesday, our Director of Solutions Architecture, Lukas, was once again invited to speak with our friends over at W3 to discuss autonomous AI narratives and what savvy users need to watch out for in 2026 to separate fact from fiction. Watch the full recap here!

Our CEO Rowan Stone was equally invited to speak on a panel by our partners at AITV to discuss how 2026 can become the mainstream year for AI and Robotics. As always, both of those can only be reliably safe with an equally reliable human in the loop. Watch the re-live here!

Where are we going?

The Sapien 2026 Roadmap! While we’re not quite ready to share the roadmap details with you quite yet, we are inching closer. While some final details are yet to be clarified, we will be able to share our plans with you shortly. Stay tuned.

What else happened in AI?

The World outside of Sapien:

New Announcements and Gadgets at CES:
CES 2026 featured a wave of robotics and AI‑powered devices demonstrating practical physical AI applications ranging from household robots to smart appliances and robotic vacuums with climbing capabilities. Attendees also saw a surge in AI‑native wearable devices designed for lifelogging, audio capture, and real‑time navigation of daily activities.

As one of the major announcements, NVIDIA launched its Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026, a comprehensive AI infrastructure stack combining CPUs, GPUs, interconnects and DPUs into a single rack‑scale system. The platform promises up to 5× faster AI training performance compared with Nvidia’s previous generation hardware and enables more cost‑efficient training of complex models. 

In another announcement, Lenovo introduced Qira, an AI voice assistant platform designed to operate across its product ecosystem, including PCs, phones and wearables. Qira’s hybrid cloud‑and‑on‑device architecture lets it adapt to users’ habits over time.

Gmail integrates AI for personalised inboxes:
Google began rolling out AI‑enhanced Gmail features driven by its Gemini models that transform the inbox into a personalized assistant. The updates include context‑aware prioritization, summarization of emails, and smarter suggestions for reply and action. Google’s stated aim is to further AI’s increasing integration into everyday consumer software rather than being limited to specialist tools. The change affects millions of users globally, fundamentally altering how many manage and interact with their emails.

New York advances AI Regulations & Safety Standards:
New York state launched new proposals to expand AI regulation and protect consumers, particularly children, following federal SAFETY‑oriented laws like the RAISE Act. Governor Kathy Hochul’s initiative aims to set standards for ethical AI use, including addressing algorithmic pricing. The move aims to position New York as a leader in balancing innovation with accountability after California has been pushing for regulations across the U.S. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all Sapiens! I cannot wait to share what we have in store for you this year!