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🎙️ EP 63: The Excel Bot That Beat McKinsey Analysts (and It’s Just Getting Started)

13 min • 30 juli 2025

An AI agent just walked into Excel—and outperformed junior analysts at McKinsey and Goldman in 89.1% of tasks. No kidding. This episode breaks down Shortcut, the viral spreadsheet AI that's changing finance work fast, plus a tiny new brain-like model that crushed top AIs on IQ benchmarks.

We’ll talk about:

How Shortcut "one-shots" full financial models and beats ChatGPT Agent
Why HRM, a 27M-parameter brain-inspired AI, scored higher than Claude on reasoning
What Google’s new AI Mode update means for visual learning and homework help
A bold prediction: why desk jobs might be next in line for full-agent automation

Keywords: Shortcut AI, McKinsey, ChatGPT Agent, HRM, ARC-AGI, Claude 3.7, Google AI Mode, Excel agent, financial modeling, agentic AI

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