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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🎂 ThursdAI — 3rd BirthdAI: Singularity Updates Begin with Auto Researcher, Uploaded Brains, OpenClaw Mania & NVIDIA's $26B Bet on Open SourceHey, Alex here 👋 Today was a special episode, as ThursdAI turns 3 🎉 We’ve been on air, weekly since Pi day, March 14th, 2023. I won’t go too nostalgic but I’ll just mention, back then GPT-4 just launched with 8K context window, could barely code, tool calls weren’t a thing, it was expensive and slow, and yet we all felt it, it’s begun!Fast forward to today, and this week, we’ve covered Andrej Karpathy’s mini singularity moment with AutoResearcher, a whole fruit fly brain uploaded to a simulation, China’s OpenClaw embrace with 1000 peop...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Mar 5 - OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Solves a 20-Year Math Problem, Anthropic Gets Designated a Supply Chain Risk, Qwen Drama UnfoldsHey folks, Alex here, let me catch you up! Most important news about this week came today, mid-show, OpenAI dropped GPT 5.4 Thinking (and 5.4 Pro), their latest flagship general model, less autistic than Codex 5.3, with 1M context, /fast mode and the ability to steet it mid-reasoning. We tested it live on the show, it’s really a beast. Also, since last week, Anthropic said no to Department of War’s ultimatum and it looks like they are being designated as supply chain risk, OpenAI swooped in to sign a deal with DoW and the internet went ball...
2026-03-061h 36
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agentsHey, it’s Alex, let me tell you why I think this week is an inflection point.Just this week: Everyone is launching autonomous agents or features inspired by OpenClaw (Devin 2.2, Cursor, Claude Cowork, Microsoft, Perplexity and Nous announced theirs), METR and ArcAGI 2,3 benchmarks are getting saturated, 1 person companies nearing 1M ARR within months of operation by running AI agents 24/7 (we chatted with one of them on the show today, live as he broke $700K ARR barrier) and the US Department of War gives Anthropic an ultimatum to remove nearly all restrictions on Claude for war and An...
2026-02-271h 50
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Feb 19 - Gemini 3.1 Pro Drops LIVE, Sonnet 4.6 Closes Gap, OpenClaw Goes to OpenAIHey, it’s Alex, let me catch you up! Since last week, OpenAI convinced OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to join them, while keeping OpenClaw.. well... open. Anthropic dropped Sonnet 4.6 which nearly outperforms the previous Opus and is much cheaper, Qwen released 3.5 on Chinese New Year’s Eve, while DeepSeek was silent and Elon and XAI folks deployed Grok 4.20 without any benchmarks, and it’s 4 500B models in a trenchcoat? Also, Anthropic updated rules state that it’s breaking ToS to use their plans for anything except Claude Code & Claude SDK (and then clarified that it’s OK? we’r...
2026-02-201h 31
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the priceHey dear subscriber, Alex here from W&B, let me catch you up! This week started with Anthropic releasing /fast mode for Opus 4.6, continued with ByteDance reality-shattering video model called SeeDance 2.0, and then the open weights folks pulled up! Z.ai releasing GLM-5, a 744B top ranking coder beast, and then today MiniMax dropping a heavily RL’d MiniMax M2.5, showing 80.2% on SWE-bench, nearly beating Opus 4.6! I’ve interviewed Lou from Z.AI and Olive from MiniMax on the show today back to back btw, very interesting conversations, starting after TL;DR!So whil...
2026-02-131h 28
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Feb 5 - Opus 4.6 was #1 for ONE HOUR before GPT 5.3 Codex, Voxtral transcription, Codex app, Qwen Coder Next & the Agentic InternetHey, Alex from W&B here 👋 Let me catch you up! The most important news about AI this week today are, Anthropic updates Opus to 4.6 with 1M context window, and they held the crown for literally 1 hour before OpenAI released their GPT 5.3 Codex also today, with 25% faster speed and lower token utilization. “GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results.”We had VB from OpenAI jump on to tell us about t...
2026-02-061h 37
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 29 - Genie3 is here, Clawd rebrands, Kimi K2.5 surprises, Chrome goes agentic & more AI newsHey guys, Alex here 👋 This week was so dense, that even my personal AI assistant Wolfred was struggling to help me keep up! Not to mention that we finally got to try one incredible piece of AI tech I’ve been waiting to get to try for a while! Clawdbot we told you about last week exploded in popularity and had to rebrand to Molt...bot OpenClaw after Anthropic threatened the creators, Google is shipping like crazy, first adding Agentic features into Chrome (used by nearly 4B people daily!) then shipping a glimpse of a future where every...
2026-01-301h 29
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 22 - Clawdbot deep dive, GLM 4.7 Flash, Anthropic constitution + 3 new TSS modelsHey! Alex here, with another weekly AI update! It seems like ThursdAI is taking a new direction, as this is our 3rd show this year, and a 3rd deep dive into topics (previously Ralph, Agent Skills), please let me know if the comments if you like this format. This week’s deep dive is into Clawdbot, a personal AI assistant you install on your computer, but can control through your phone, has access to your files, is able to write code, help organize your life, but most importantly, it can self improve. Seeing Wolfred (my Cl...
2026-01-231h 38
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 15 - Agent Skills Deep Dive, GPT 5.2 Codex Builds a Browser, Claude Cowork for the Masses, and the Era of Personalized AI!Hey ya’ll, Alex here, and this week I was especially giddy to record the show! Mostly because when a thing clicks for me that hasn’t clicked before, I can’t wait to tell you all about it! This week, that thing is Agent Skills! The currently best way to customize your AI agents with domain expertise, in a simple, repeatable way that doesn’t blow up the context window! We mentioned skills when Anthropic first released them (Oct 16) and when they became an open standard but it didn’t really click until last week! So more on th...
2026-01-161h 41
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Jan 8 - Vera Rubin's 5x Jump, Ralph Wiggum Goes Viral, GPT Health Launches & XAI Raises $20B Mid-ControversyHey folks, Alex here from Weights & Biases, with your weekly AI update (and a first live show of this year!) For the first time, we had a co-host of the show also be a guest on the show, Ryan Carson (from Amp) went supernova viral this week with an X article (1.5M views) about Ralph Wiggum (yeah, from Simpsons) and he broke down that agentic coding technique at the end of the show. LDJ and Nisten helped cover NVIDIA’s incredible announcements during CES with their Vera Rubin upcoming platform (4-5X improvements) and we al...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Jan 1 2026 - Will Brown Interview + Nvidia buys Groq, Meta buys Manus, Qwen Image 2412 & Alex New Year greetingsHey all, Happy new year! This is Alex, writing to you for the very fresh start of this year, it’s 2026 already, can you believe it? There was no live stream today, I figured the cohosts deserve a break and honestly it was a very slow week. Even the chinese labs who don’t really celebrate X-mas and new years didn’t come out with a banger AFAIK. ThursdAI - AI moves fast, we’re here to make sure you never miss a thing! Subscribe :) Tho I thought it was an i...
2026-01-0129 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🔥 Someone Trained an LLM in Space This Year (And 50 Other Things You Missed)- ThursdAI yearly recap is here!Ho Ho Ho, Alex here! (a real human writing these words, this needs to be said in 2025) Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate) and welcome to the very special yearly ThursdAI recap! This was an intense year in the world of AI, and after 51 weekly episodes (this is episode 52!) we have the ultimate record of all the major and most important AI releases of this year! So instead of bringing you a weekly update (it’s been a slow week so far, most AI labs are taking a well deserved break, the Cchinese AI labs ha...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Dec 18 - Gemini 3 Flash, Grok Voice, ChatGPT Appstore, Image 1.5 & GPT 5.2 Codex, Meta Sam Audio & more AI newsHey folks 👋 Alex here, dressed as 🎅 for our pre X-mas episode!We’re wrapping up 2025, and the AI labs decided they absolutely could NOT let the year end quietly. This week was an absolute banger—we had Gemini 3 Flash dropping with frontier intelligence at flash prices, OpenAI firing off GPT 5.2 Codex as breaking news DURING our show, ChatGPT Images 1.5, Nvidia going all-in on open source with Nemotron 3 Nano, and the voice AI space heating up with Grok Voice and Chatterbox Turbo. Oh, and Google dropped FunctionGemma for all your toaster-to-fridge communication needs (yes, really).Today’s show was o...
2025-12-1939 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Dec 4, 2025 - DeepSeek V3.2 Goes Gold Medal, Mistral Returns to Apache 2.0, OpenAI Hits Code Red, and US-Trained MOEs Are Back!Hey yall, Alex here 🫡 Welcome to the first ThursdAI of December! Snow is falling in Colorado, and AI releases are falling even harder. This week was genuinely one of those “drink from the firehose” weeks where every time I refreshed my timeline, another massive release had dropped.We kicked off the show asking our co-hosts for their top AI pick of the week, and the answers were all over the map: Wolfram was excited about Mistral’s return to Apache 2.0, Yam couldn’t stop talking about Claude Opus 4.5 after a full week of using it, and Nisten...
2025-12-051h 33
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI Special: Google's New Anti-Gravity IDE, Gemini 3 & Nano Banana Pro Explained (ft. Kevin Hou, Ammaar Reshi & Kat Kampf)Hey, Alex here, I recorded these conversations just in front of the AI Engineer auditorium, back to back, after these great folks gave their talks, and at the epitome of the most epic AI week we’ve seen since I started recording ThursdAI.This is less our traditional live recording, and more a real podcast-y conversation with great folks, inspired by Latent.Space. I hope you enjoy this format as much as I’ve enjoyed recording and editing it. AntiGravity with KevinKevin Hou and team just launched Antigravity, Google’s brand...
2025-12-0246 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - the week that changed the AI landscape forever - Gemini 3, GPT codex max, Grok 4.1 & fast, SAM3 and Nano Banana ProHey everyone, Alex here 👋I’m writing this one from a noisy hallway at the AI Engineer conference in New York, still riding the high (and the sleep deprivation) from what might be the craziest week we’ve ever had in AI.In the span of a few days:Google dropped Gemini 3 Pro, a new Deep Think mode, generative UIs, and a free agent-first IDE called Antigravity.xAI shipped Grok 4.1, then followed it up with Grok 4.1 Fast plus an Agent Tools API.OpenAI answered with GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, a long‑horizon coding monster that can work f...
2025-11-211h 29
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekGPT‑5.1’s New Brain, Grok’s 2M Context, Omnilingual ASR, and a Terminal UI That Sparks JoyHey, this is Alex! We’re finally so back! Tons of open source releases, OpenAI updates GPT and a few breakthroughs in audio as well, makes this a very dense week! Today on the show, we covered the newly released GPT 5.1 update, a few open source releases like Terminal Bench and Project AELLA (renamed OASSAS), and Baidu’s Ernie 4.5 VL that shows impressive visual understanding! Also, chatted with Paul from 11Labs and Dima Duev from the wandb SDK team, who brought us a delicious demo of LEET, our new TUI for wandb! To...
2025-11-131h 10
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Nov 6, 2025 - Kimi’s 1T Thinking Model Shakes Up Open Source, Apple Bets $1B on Gemini for Siri, and Amazon vs. Perplexity!Hey, Alex here! Quick note, while preparing for this week, I posted on X that I don’t remember such a quiet week in AI since I started doing ThursdAI regularly, but then 45 min before the show started, Kimi dropped a SOTA oss reasoning model, turning a quiet week into an absolute banger. Besides Kimi, we covered the updated MCP thinking from Anthropic, and had Kenton Varda from cloudflare as a guest to talk about Code Mode, chatted about Windsurf and Cursor latest updates and covered OpenAI’s insane deals. Also, because it was...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Oct 30 - From ASI in a Decade to Home Humanoids: MiniMax M2's Speed Demon, OpenAI's Bold Roadmap, and 2026 Robot RevolutionHey, it’s Alex! Happy Halloween friends! I’m excited to bring you this weeks (spooky) AI updates! We started the show today with MiniMax M2, the currently top Open Source LLM, with an interview with their head of eng, Skyler Miao, continued to dive into OpenAIs completed restructuring into a non-profit and a PBC, including a deep dive into a live stream Sam Altman had, with a ton of spicy details, and finally chatted with Arjun Desai from Cartesia, following a release of Sonic 3, a sub 49ms voice model! So, 2 interviews + tons of news, let’...
2025-10-311h 37
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Oct 23: The AI Browser Wars Begin, DeepSeek's OCR Mind-Trick & The Race to Real-Time VideoHey everyone, Alex here! Welcome... to the browser war II - the AI edition! This week we chatted in depth about ChatGPT’s new Atlas agentic browser, and the additional agentic powers Microsoft added to Edge with Copilot Mode (tho it didn’t work for me) Also this week was a kind of crazy OCR week, with more than 4 OCR models releasing, and the crown one is DeepSeek OCR, that turned the whole industry on it’s head (more later) Quite a few video updates as well, with real time lipsync from Decart, and a...
2025-10-241h 35
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Oct 16 - VEO3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT adult mode, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX spark, Wordlabs RTFM & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here. Can you believe it’s already the middle of October? This week’s show was a special one, not just because of the mind-blowing news, but because we set a new ThursdAI record with four incredible interviews back-to-back!We had Jessica Gallegos from Google DeepMind walking us through the cinematic new features in VEO 3.1. Then we dove deep into the world of Reinforcement Learning with my new colleague Kyle Corbitt from OpenPipe. We got the scoop on Amp’s wild new ad-supported free tier from CEO Quinn Slack. And just as we wer...
2025-10-171h 34
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 Oct 9, 2025 — Dev Day’s Agent Era, Samsung’s 7M TRM Shock, Ling‑1T at 1T, Grok Video goes NSFW, and Serverless RL arrivesHey everyone, Alex here 👋We’re deep in the post-reality era now. Between Sora2, the latest waves of video models, and “is-that-person-real” cameos, it’s getting genuinely hard to trust what we see. Case in point: I recorded a short clip with (the real) Sam Altman this week and a bunch of friends thought I faked it with Sora-style tooling. Someone even added a fake Sora watermark just to mess with people. Welcome to 2025.This week’s episode and this write-up focus on a few big arcs we’re all living through at once: OpenAI’s Dev Day and the...
2025-10-101h 41
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekSora 2 Crushes TikTok, Claude 4.5 Fizzles, DeepSeek innovates attention and GLM 4.6 Takes the Crown! 🔥Hey everyone, Alex here (yes the real me if you’re reading this) The weeks are getting crazier, but what OpenAI pulled this week, with a whole new social media app attached to their latest AI breakthroughs is definitely breathtaking! Sora2 released and instantly became a viral sensation, shooting to the top 3 free iOS spot on AppStore, with millions of videos watched, and remixed. On weeks like these, even huge releases like Claude 4.5 are taking the backseat, but we still covered them! For listeners of the pod, the second half of the show wa...
2025-10-031h 39
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Sep 11 - SeeDream 4, Lucy 14B, ChatGPT gets MCP, OpenAI $300B deal with Oracle, Qwen Next A3B & more AI newsHey Everyone, Alex here, thanks for being a subscriber! Let's get you caught up on this weeks most important AI news! The main thing you need to know this week is likely the incredible Image model that ByteDance released, that overshoots the (incredible image model from last 2 weeks) nano 🍌. ByteDance really outdid themselves on this one! But also, a video model with super fast generation, OpenAI rumor made Larry Ellison the richest man alive, ChatGPT gets MCP powers (under a flag you can enable) and much more! This week we covered a lot of...
2025-09-121h 34
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Sep 4 - Codex Rises, Anthropic Raises $13B, Nous plays poker, Apple speeds up VLMs & more AI newsWohoo, hey ya’ll, Alex here,I'm back from the desert (pic at the end) and what a great feeling it is to be back in the studio to talk about everything that happened in AI! It's been a pretty full week (or two) in AI, with Coding agent space heating up, Grok entering the ring and taking over free tokens, Codex 10xing usage and Anthropic... well, we'll get to Anthropic. Today on the show we had Roger and Bhavesh from Nous Research cover the awesome Hermes 4 release and the new PokerBots benchmark, th...
2025-09-051h 38
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Aug 21 - DeepSeek V3.1’s hybrid upset, ByteDance’s 512K Seed-OSS, Nano Banana wizardry, Agents.md standardizes agents, and more AIHey everyone, Alex here 👋This week looked quiet… until about 15 hours before we went live. Then the floodgates opened: DeepSeek dropped a hybrid V3.1 that beats their own R1 with fewer thinking tokens, ByteDance quietly shipped a 36B Apache-2.0 long-context family with a “thinking budget” knob, NVIDIA pushed a faster mixed-architecture 9B with open training data, and a stealth image editor dubbed “Nano Banana” started doing mind-bending scene edits that feel like a new tier of 3D-aware control. On the big-co side, a mystery “Sonic” model appeared in Cursor and Cline (spoiler: the function call paths say a lot...
2025-08-211h 06
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Aug 14 - A week with GPT5, OSS world models, VLMs in OSS, Tiny Gemma & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋Last week, I tried to test GPT-5 and got really surprisingly bad results, but it turns out, as you'll see below, it's partly because they had a bug in the router, and partly because ... well, the router itself! See below for an introduction, written by GPT-5, it's actually not bad?Last week was a whirlwind. We live‑streamed GPT‑5’s “birthday,” ran long, and then promptly spent the next seven days poking every corner of the new router‑driven universe.This week looked quieter on the surface, but it actually delive...
2025-08-151h 29
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - GPT5 is hereHey folks 👋 Alex here, writing to you, from a makeshift recording studio in an Eastern European hookah bar, where I spent the last 7 hours. Why you ask? Well, when GPT-5 drops, the same week as OpenAI dropping the long awaited OSS models + Google is shipping perfect memory World Models (Genie 3) and tons of other AI drops, well I just couldn't stay away from the stream.Vacation or not, ThursdAI is keeping you up to date (for 32 months straight, which is also the time since the original GPT-4 release which gave this show its name!)So, wha...
2025-08-082h 56
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI – Jul 31, 2025 – Qwen’s Small Models Go Big, StepFun’s Multimodal Leap, GLM-4.5’s Chart Crimes, and Runway’s Mind‑Bending Video Edits + GPT-5 soon?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsWoohoo, we're almost done with July (my favorite month) and the Open Source AI decided to go out with some fireworks 🎉Hey everyone, Alex here, writing this without my own personal superintelligence (more: later) and this week has been VERY BUSY with many new open source releases.Just 1 hour before the show we already had 4 breaking news releases, a tiny Qwen3-coder, Cohere and StepFun both dropped multimodal SOTAs and our friends from Krea dropped a combined mod...
2025-08-011h 38
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - July 17th - Kimi K2 👑, OpenAI Agents, Grok Waifus, Amazon Kiro, W&B Inference & more AI news!Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 and WHAT a week to turn a year older! Not only did I get to celebrate my birthday with 30,000+ of you live during the OpenAI stream, but we also witnessed what might be the biggest open-source AI release since DeepSeek dropped. Buckle up, because we're diving into a trillion-parameter behemoth, agentic capabilities that'll make your head spin, and somehow Elon Musk decided Grok waifus are the solution to... something.This was one of those weeks where I kept checking if I was dreaming. Remember when DeepSeek dropped and we all lost our minds? Wel...
2025-07-171h 45
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jul 10 - Grok 4 and 4 Heavy, SmolLM3, Liquid LFM2, Reka Flash & Vision, Perplexity Comet Browser, Devstral 1.1 & More AI NewsHey everyone, Alex hereDon't you just love "new top LLM" drop weeks? I sure do! This week, we had a watch party for Grok-4, with over 20K tuning in to watch together, as the folks at XAI unveiled their newest and best model around. Two models in fact, Grok-4 and Grok-4 Heavy. We also had a very big open source week, we had the pleasure to chat with the creators of 3 open source models on the show, first with Elie from HuggingFace who just released SmoLM3, then with our friend Maxime Labonne who together...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jul 3 - ERNIE 4.5, Hunyuan A13B, MAI-DxO outperforms doctors, RL beats SWE bench, Zuck MSL hiring spree & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋Welcome back to another mind-blowing week on ThursdAI! We’re diving into the first show of the second half of 2025, and let me tell you, AI is not slowing down. This week, we’ve got a massive wave of open-source models from Chinese giants like Baidu and Tencent that are shaking up the game, Meta’s jaw-dropping hiring spree with Zuck assembling an AI dream team, and Microsoft’s medical AI outperforming doctors on the toughest cases. Plus, a real-time AI game engine that had me geeking out on stream. Buckle up, folks, because we’...
2025-07-031h 36
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Jun 26 - Gemini CLI, Flux Kontext Dev, Search Live, Anthropic destroys books, Zucks superintelligent team & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here, writing from... a undisclosed tropical paradise location 🏝️ I'm on vacation, but the AI news doesn't stop of course, and neither does ThursdAI. So huge shoutout to Wolfram Ravenwlf for running the show this week, Nisten, LDJ and Yam who joined. So... no long blogpost with analysis this week, but I'll def. recommend tuning in to the show that the folks ran, they had a few guests on, and even got some breaking news (new Flux Kontext that's open source) Of course many of you are readers and are here for the links...
2025-06-261h 39
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - June 19 - MiniMax M1 beats R1, OpenAI records your meetings, Gemini in GA, W&B uses Coreweave GPUs & more AI newsHey all, Alex here 👋This week, while not the busiest week in releases (we can't get a SOTA LLM every week now can we), was full of interesting open source releases, and feature updates such as the chatGPT meetings recorder (which we live tested on the show, the limit is 2 hours!)It was also a day after our annual W&B conference called FullyConnected, and so I had a few goodies to share with you, like answering the main question, when will W&B have some use of those GPUs from CoreWeave, the answer is... now...
2025-06-201h 41
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - June 12 - Meta’s $15B ScaleAI Power Play, OpenAI’s o3-pro & 90% Price Drop!Hey folks, this is Alex, finally back home! This week was full of crazy AI news, both model related but also shifts in the AI landscape and big companies, with Zuck going all in on scale & execu-hiring Alex Wang for a crazy $14B dollars. OpenAI meanwhile, maybe received a new shipment of GPUs? Otherwise, it’s hard to explain how they have dropped the o3 price by 80%, while also shipping o3-pro (in chat and API). Apple was also featured in today’s episode, but more so for the lack of AI news, comp...
2025-06-131h 33
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jun 5, 2025 - Live from AI Engineer with Swyx, new Gemini 2.5 with Logan K and Jack Rae, Self Replicating agents with Morph LabsHey folks, this is Alex, coming to you LIVE from the AI Engineer Worlds Fair! What an incredible episode this week, we recorded live from floor 30th at the Marriott in SF, while Yam was doing live correspondence from the floor of the AI Engineer event, all while Swyx, the cohost of Latent Space podcast, and the creator of AI Engineer (both the conference and the concept itself) joined us for the whole stream - here’s the edited version, please take a look. We've had around 6500 people tune in, and at some point we go...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - May 29 - DeepSeek R1 Resurfaces, VEO3 viral moments, Opus 4 a week after, Flux Kontext image editing & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋Welcome back to another absolutely wild week in AI! I'm coming to you live from the Fontainebleau Hotel in Vegas at the Imagine AI conference, and wow, what a perfect setting to discuss how AI is literally reimagining our world. After last week's absolute explosion of releases (Claude Opus 4, Google I/O madness, OpenAI Codex and Jony colab), this week gave us a chance to breathe... sort of. Because even in a "quiet" week, we still got a new DeepSeek model that's pushing boundaries, and the entire internet discovered that we might all jus...
2025-05-301h 28
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Veo3, Google IO25, Claude 4 Opus/Sonnet, OpenAI x Jony Ive, Codex, Copilot Agent - INSANE AI weekHey folks, Alex here, welcome back to ThursdAI! And folks, after the last week was the calm before the storm, "The storm came, y'all" – that's an understatement. This wasn't just a storm; it was an AI hurricane, a category 5 of announcements that left us all reeling (in the best way possible!). From being on the ground at Google I/O to live-watching Anthropic drop Claude 4 during our show, it's been an absolute whirlwind.This week was so packed, it felt like AI Christmas, with tech giants and open-source heroes alike showering us with gifts. We sa...
2025-05-231h 28
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - May 15 - Genocidal Grok, ChatGPT 4.1, AM-Thinking, Distributed LLM training & more AI newsHey yall, this is Alex 👋What a wild week, it started super slow, and it still did feel slow as releases are concerned, but the most interesting story was yet another AI gone "rogue" (have you even heard about "kill the boar", if not, Grok will tell you all about it) Otherwise it seemed fairly quiet in AI land this week, besides another Chinese newcomer called AM-thinking 32B that beats DeepSeek and Qwen, and Stability making a small comeback, we focused on distributed LLM training and ChatGPT 4.1We've had a ton of fun on...
2025-05-161h 28
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - May 8th - new Gemini pro, Mistral Medium, OpenAI restructuring, HeyGen Realistic Avatars & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here (yes, real me, not my AI avatar, yet)Compared to previous weeks, this week was pretty "chill" in the world of AI, though we did get a pretty significant Gemini 2.5 Pro update, it basically beat itself on the Arena. With Mistral releasing a new medium model (not OSS) and Nvidia finally dropping Nemotron Ultra (both ignoring Qwen 3 performance) there was also a few open source updates. To me the highlight of this week was a breakthrough in AI Avatars, with Heygen's new IV model, Beating ByteDance's OmniHuman (our coverage) and Hedra...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - May 1- Qwen 3, Phi-4, OpenAI glazegate, RIP GPT4, LlamaCon, LMArena in hot water & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋Welcome back to ThursdAI! And wow, what a week. Seriously, strap in, because the AI landscape just went through some seismic shifts. We're talking about a monumental open-source release from Alibaba with Qwen 3 that has everyone buzzing (including us!), Microsoft dropping Phi-4 with Reasoning, a rather poignant farewell to a legend (RIP GPT-4 – we'll get to the wake shortly), major drama around ChatGPT's "glazing" incident and the subsequent rollback, updates from LlamaCon, a critical look at Chatbot Arena, and a fantastic deep dive into the world of AI evaluations with two absolute experts, Hamel...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Apr 23rd - GPT Image & Grok APIs Drop, OpenAI ❤️ OS? Dia's Wild TTS & Building Better Agents!Hey everyone, Alex here 👋Welcome back to ThursdAI! After what felt like ages of non-stop, massive model drops (looking at you, O3 and GPT-4!), we finally got that "chill week" we've been dreaming of since maybe... forever? It seems the big labs are taking a breather, probably gearing up for even bigger things next week (maybe some open source 👀).But "chill" doesn't mean empty! This week was packed with fascinating developments, especially in the open source world and with long-awaited API releases. We actually had time to dive deeper into things, which was a refreshing change...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Apr 17 - OpenAI o3 is SOTA llm, o4-mini, 4.1, mini, nano, G. Flash 2.5, Kling 2.0 and 🐬 Gemma? Huge AI week + A2A protocol interviewHey everyone, Alex here 👋Wow. Just… wow. What a week, folks. Seriously, this has been one for the books. This week was dominated by OpenAI's double whammy: first the GPT-4.1 family dropped with a mind-boggling 1 million token context window, followed swiftly by the new flagship reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, which are already blowing minds with their agentic capabilities. We also saw significant moves from Google with VEO-2 going GA, the fascinating A2A protocol launch (we had an amazing interview with Google's Todd Segal about it!), and even an attempt to talk to dolph...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week💯 ThursdAI - 100th episode 🎉 - Meta LLama 4, Google tons of updates, ChatGPT memory, WandB MCP manifesto & more AI newsHey Folks, Alex here, celebrating an absolutely crazy (to me) milestone, of #100 episodes of ThursdAI 👏 100 episodes in a year and a half (as I started publishing much later than I started going live, and the first episode was embarrassing), 100 episodes that documented INCREDIBLE AI progress, we mention on the show today, we used to be excited by context windows jumping from 4K to 16K! I want to extend a huge thank you to every one of you, who subscribes, listens to the show on podcasts, joins the live recording (we regularly get over 1K live vie...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Mar 27 - Gemini 2.5 Takes #1, OpenAI Goes Ghibli, DeepSeek V3 Roars, Qwen Omni, Wandb MCP & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋 Welcome back to ThursdAI! And folks, what an absolutely insane week it's been in the world of AI. Seriously, as I mentioned on the show, we don't often get weeks this packed with game-changing releases.We saw Google emphatically reclaim the #1 LLM spot with Gemini 2.5 Pro (and OpenAI try really hard to hit back with a new ChatGPT), DeepSeek dropped a monster 685B parameter open-source model, Qwen launched a tiny but mighty 7B Omni model that handles voice and video like a champ, and OpenAI finally gave us native image generation in...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Mar 20 - OpenAIs new voices, Mistral Small, NVIDIA GTC recap & Nemotron, new SOTA vision from Roboflow & more AI newsHey, it's Alex, coming to you fresh off another live recording of ThursdAI, and what an incredible one it's been! I was hoping that this week will be chill with the releases, because of NVIDIA's GTC conference, but no, the AI world doesn't stop, and if you blinked this week, you may have missed 2 or 10 major things that happened. From Mistral coming back to OSS with the amazing Mistral Small 3.1 (beating Gemma from last week!) to OpenAI dropping a new voice generation model, and 2! new whisper killer ASR models with a Breaking News during our...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI Turns Two! 🎉 Gemma 3, Gemini Native Image, new OpenAI tools, tons of open source & more AI newsLET'S GO! Happy second birthday to ThursdAI, your favorite weekly AI news show! Can you believe it's been two whole years since we jumped into that random Twitter Space to rant about GPT-4? From humble beginnings as a late-night Twitter chat to a full-blown podcast, Newsletter and YouTube show with hundreds of thousands of downloads, it's been an absolutely wild ride! That's right, two whole years of me, Alex Volkov, your friendly AI Evangelist, along with my amazing co-hosts, trying to keep you up-to-date on the breakneck speed of the AI worldAnd...
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Corruption Crime & Compliance[Replay] Review of the EU Whistleblowing Directive with Alex Cotoia and Daniela MelendezThis week, we bring you a replay of one of our most impactful podcasts from last year, featuring Alex Cotoia and Daniela Melendez. Listen in as we discuss the EU Whistleblower Directive of October 2019. We'll return next week with one of our regular updates.Directive 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and Council dated 23 October 2019 on the “protection of persons who report breaches of Union law” (the “Directive”) is currently being implemented by EU Member States. The directive has broad applicability to organizations operating in the EU internal market and applies to both public and private sector o...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Mar 6, 2025 - Alibaba's R1 Killer QwQ, Exclusive Google AI Mode Chat, and MCP fever sweeping the community!What is UP folks! Alex here from Weights & Biases (yeah, still, but check this weeks buzz section below for some news!) I really really enjoyed today's episode, I feel like I can post it unedited it was so so good. We started the show with our good friend Junyang Lin from Alibaba Qwen, where he told us about their new 32B reasoner QwQ. Then we interviewed Google's VP of the search product, Robby Stein, who came and told us about their upcoming AI mode in Google! I got access and played with it, and it made me...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 Feb 27, 2025 - GPT-4.5 Drops TODAY?!, Claude 3.7 Coding BEAST, Grok's Unhinged Voice, Humanlike AI voices & more AI newsHey all, Alex here 👋What can I say, the weeks are getting busier , and this is one of those "crazy full" weeks in AI. As we were about to start recording, OpenAI teased GPT 4.5 live stream, and we already had a very busy show lined up (Claude 3.7 vibes are immaculate, Grok got an unhinged voice mode) and I had an interview with Kevin Hou from Windsurf scheduled! Let's dive in! 🔥 GPT 4.5 (ORION) is here - worlds largest LLM (10x GPT4o) OpenAI has finally shipped their next .5 model, which is 10x scale from the pr...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Feb 20 - Live from AI Eng in NY - Grok 3, Unified Reasoners, Anthropic's Bombshell, and Robot Handoffs!Holy moly, AI enthusiasts! Alex Volkov here, reporting live from the AI Engineer Summit in the heart of (touristy) Times Square, New York! This week has been an absolute whirlwind of announcements, from XAI's Grok 3 dropping like a bomb, to Figure robots learning to hand each other things, and even a little eval smack-talk between OpenAI and XAI. It’s enough to make your head spin – but that's what ThursdAI is here for. We sift through the chaos and bring you the need-to-know, so you can stay on the cutting edge without having to, well, spend your entire life glue...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Feb 13 - my Personal Rogue AI, DeepHermes, Fast R1, OpenAI Roadmap / RIP GPT6, new Claude & Grok 3 imminent?What a week in AI, folks! Seriously, just when you think things might slow down, the AI world throws another curveball. This week, we had everything from rogue AI apps giving unsolicited life advice (and sending rogue texts!), to mind-blowing open source releases that are pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and of course, the ever-present drama of the big AI companies with OpenAI dropping a roadmap that has everyone scratching their heads.Buckle up, because on this week's ThursdAI, we dove deep into all of it. We chatted with the brains behind the latest open source...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Feb 6 - OpenAI DeepResearch is your personal PHD scientist, o3-mini & Gemini 2.0, OmniHuman-1 breaks reality & more AI newsWhat's up friends, Alex here, back with another ThursdAI hot off the presses.Hold onto your hats because this week was another whirlwind of AI breakthroughs, mind-blowing demos, and straight-up game-changers. We dove deep into OpenAI's new "Deep Research" agent – and let me tell you, it's not just hype, it's legitimately revolutionary. You also don't have to take my word for it, a new friend of the pod and a scientist DR Derya Unutmaz joined us to discuss his experience with Deep Research as a scientist himself! You don't want to miss this conversation! We al...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 30 - DeepSeek vs. Nasdaq, R1 everywhere, Qwen Max & Video, Open Source SUNO, Goose agents & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here 👋It’s official—grandmas (and the entire stock market) now know about DeepSeek. If you’ve been living under an AI rock, DeepSeek’s new R1 model just set the world on fire, rattling Wall Street (causing the biggest monetary loss for any company, ever!) and rocketing to #1 on the iOS App Store. This week’s ThursdAI show took us on a deep (pun intended) dive into the dizzying whirlwind of open-source AI breakthroughs, agentic mayhem, and big-company cat-and-mouse announcements. Grab your coffee (or your winter survival kit if you’re in Canada), because in true...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 16, 2025 - Hailuo 4M context LLM, SOTA TTS in browser, OpenHands interview & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋 Welcome back, to an absolute banger of a week in AI releases, highlighted with just massive Open Source AI push. We're talking a MASSIVE 4M context window context window model from Hailuo (remember when a jump from 4K to 16K seemed like a big deal?), a 8B omni model that lets you livestream video and glimpses of Agentic ChatGPT? This week's ThursdAI was jam-packed with so much open source goodness that the big companies were practically silent. But don't worry, we still managed to squeeze in some updates from OpenAI and Mis...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 9th - NVIDIA's Tiny Supercomputer, Phi-4 is back, Kokoro TTS & Moondream gaze, ByteDance SOTA lip sync & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋This week's ThursdAI was a whirlwind of announcements, from Microsoft finally dropping Phi-4's official weights on Hugging Face (a month late, but who's counting?) to Sam Altman casually mentioning that OpenAI's got AGI in the bag and is now setting its sights on superintelligence. Oh, and NVIDIA? They're casually releasing a $3,000 supercomputer that can run 200B parameter models on your desktop. No big deal.We had some amazing guests this week too, with Oliver joining us to talk about a new foundation model in genomics and biosurveillance (yes, you read tha...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Jan 2 - is 25' the year of AI agents?Hey folks, Alex here 👋 Happy new year!On our first episode of this year, and the second quarter of this century, there wasn't a lot of AI news to report on (most AI labs were on a well deserved break). So this week, I'm very happy to present a special ThursdAI episode, an interview with Joāo Moura, CEO of Crew.ai all about AI agents!We first chatted with Joāo a year ago, back in January of 2024, as CrewAI was blowing up but still just an open source project, it got to be the n...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Dec 26 - OpenAI o3 & o3 mini, DeepSeek v3 658B beating Claude, Qwen Visual Reasoning, Hume OCTAVE & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here 👋I was hoping for a quiet holiday week, but whoa, while the last newsletter was only a week ago, what a looong week it has been, just Friday after the last newsletter, it felt like OpenAI has changed the world of AI once again with o3 and left everyone asking "was this AGI?" over the X-mas break (Hope Santa brought you some great gifts!) and then not to be outdone, DeepSeek open sourced basically a Claude 2.5 level behemoth DeepSeek v3 just this morning!Since the breaking news from DeepSeek took us by...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🎄ThursdAI - Dec19 - o1 vs gemini reasoning, VEO vs SORA, and holiday season full of AI surprisesFor the full show notes and links visit https://sub.thursdai.news🔗 Subscribe to our show on Spotify: https://thursdai.news/spotify🔗 Apple: https://thursdai.news/appleHo, ho, holy moly, folks! Alex here, coming to you live from a world where AI updates are dropping faster than Santa down a chimney! 🎅 It's been another absolutely BANANAS week in the AI world, and if you thought last week was wild, and we're due for a break, buckle up, because this one's a freakin' rollercoaster! 🎢In this episode of ThursdAI, we dive deep into th...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Dec 12 - unprecedented AI week - SORA, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Apple Intelligence, LLama 3.3, NeurIPS Drama & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here, writing this from the beautiful Vancouver BC, Canada. I'm here for NeurIPS 2024, the biggest ML conferences of the year, and let me tell you, this was one hell of a week to not be glued to the screen. After last week banger week, with OpenAI kicking off their 12 days of releases, with releasing o1 full and pro mode during ThursdAI, things went parabolic. It seems that all the AI labs decided to just dump EVERYTHING they have before the holidays? 🎅A day after our show, on Friday, Google announced a new Gem...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Nov 21 - The fight for the LLM throne, OSS SOTA from AllenAI, Flux new tools, Deepseek R1 reasoning & more AI newsHey folks, Alex here, and oof what a 🔥🔥🔥 show we had today! I got to use my new breaking news button 3 times this show! And not only that, some of you may know that one of the absolutely biggest pleasures as a host, is to feature the folks who actually make the news on the show!And now that we're in video format, you actually get to see who they are! So this week I was honored to welcome back our friend and co-host Junyang Lin, a Dev Lead from the Alibaba Qwen team, who came back after lau...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Nov 7 - Video version, full o1 was given and taken away, Anthropic price hike-u, halloween 💀 recap & more AI news👋 Hey all, this is Alex, coming to you from the very Sunny California, as I'm in SF again, while there is a complete snow storm back home in Denver (brrr).I flew here for the Hackathon I kept telling you about, and it was glorious, we had over 400 registered, over 200 approved hackers, 21 teams submitted incredible projects 👏 You can follow some of these hereI then decided to stick around and record the show from SF, and finally pulled the plug and asked for some budget, and I present, the first ThursdAI, recorded from the newly minted...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Spooky Halloween edition with Video!Hey everyone, Happy Halloween! Alex here, coming to you live from my mad scientist lair! For the first ever, live video stream of ThursdAI, I dressed up as a mad scientist and had my co-host, Fester the AI powered Skeleton join me (as well as my usual cohosts haha) in a very energetic and hopefully entertaining video stream! Since it's Halloween today, Fester (and I) have a very busy schedule, so no super length ThursdAI news-letter today, as we're still not in the realm of Gemini being able to write a decent draft that takes everything we...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Oct 24 - Claude 3.5 controls your PC?! Talking AIs with 🦾, Multimodal Weave, Video Models mania + more AI news from this 🔥 week.Hey all, Alex here, coming to you from the (surprisingly) sunny Seattle, with just a mind-boggling week of releases. Really, just on Tuesday there was so much news already! I had to post a recap thread, something I do usually after I finish ThursdAI! From Anthropic reclaiming close-second sometimes-first AI lab position + giving Claude the wheel in the form of computer use powers, to more than 3 AI video generation updates with open source ones, to Apple updating Apple Intelligence beta, it's honestly been very hard to keep up, and again, this is literally part of my job!
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Oct 17 - Robots, Rockets, and Multi Modal Mania with open source voice cloning, OpenAI new voice API and more AI newsHey folks, Alex here from Weights & Biases, and this week has been absolutely bonkers. From robots walking among us to rockets landing on chopsticks (well, almost), the future is feeling palpably closer. And if real-world robots and reusable spaceship boosters weren't enough, the open-source AI community has been cooking, dropping new models and techniques faster than a Starship launch. So buckle up, grab your space helmet and noise-canceling headphones (we’ll get to why those are important!), and let's blast off into this week’s AI adventures!TL;DR and show-notes + links at the end of the post...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📆 ThursdAI - Oct 3 - OpenAI RealTime API, ChatGPT Canvas & other DevDay news (how I met Sam Altman), Gemini 1.5 8B is basically free, BFL makes FLUX 1.1 6x faster, Rev breaks whisper records...Hey, it's Alex. Ok, so mind is officially blown. I was sure this week was going to be wild, but I didn't expect everyone else besides OpenAI to pile on, exactly on ThursdAI. Coming back from Dev Day (number 2) and am still processing, and wanted to actually do a recap by humans, not just the NotebookLM one I posted during the keynote itself (which was awesome and scary in a "will AI replace me as a podcaster" kind of way), and was incredible to have Simon Willison who was sitting just behind me most of Dev Day...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekOpenAI Dev Day 2024 keynoteHey, Alex here. Super quick, as I’m still attending Dev Day, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging (if you're a paid subscriber!), I have decided to outsource my job and give the amazing podcasters of NoteBookLM the whole transcript of the opening keynote of OpenAI Dev Day.You can see a blog of everything they just posted hereHere’s a summary of all what was announced:* Developer-Centric Approach: OpenAI consistently emphasized the importance of developers in their mission to build beneficial AGI. The speaker stated, "OpenAI's mission is to bui...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Sep 26 - 🔥 Llama 3.2 multimodal & meta connect recap, new Gemini 002, Advanced Voice mode & more AI newsHey everyone, it's Alex (still traveling!), and oh boy, what a week again! Advanced Voice Mode is finally here from OpenAI, Google updated their Gemini models in a huge way and then Meta announced MultiModal LlaMas and on device mini Llamas (and we also got a "better"? multimodal from Allen AI called MOLMO!)From Weights & Biases perspective, our hackathon was a success this weekend, and then I went down to Menlo Park for my first Meta Connect conference, full of news and updates and will do a full recap here as well. ThursdAI...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Sep 19 - 👑 Qwen 2.5 new OSS king LLM, MSFT new MoE, Nous Research's Forge announcement, and Talking AIs in the open source!Hey folks, Alex here, back with another ThursdAI recap – and let me tell you, this week's episode was a whirlwind of open-source goodness, mind-bending inference techniques, and a whole lotta talk about talking AIs! We dove deep into the world of LLMs, from Alibaba's massive Qwen 2.5 drop to the quirky, real-time reactions of Moshi. We even got a sneak peek at Nous Research's ambitious new project, Forge, which promises to unlock some serious LLM potential. So grab your pumpkin spice latte (it's that time again isn't it? 🍁) settle in, and let's recap the AI awesomeness that went down...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🔥 📅 ThursdAI - Sep 12 - OpenAI's 🍓 is called 01 and is HERE, reflecting on Reflection 70B, Google's new auto podcasts & more AI news from last weekMarch 14th, 2023 was the day ThursdAI was born, it was also the day OpenAI released GPT-4, and I jumped into a Twitter space and started chaotically reacting together with other folks about what a new release of a paradigm shifting model from OpenAI means, what are the details, the new capabilities. Today, it happened again! Hey, it's Alex, I'm back from my mini vacation (pic after the signature) and boy am I glad I decided to not miss September 12th! The long rumored 🍓 thinking model from OpenAI, dropped as breaking news in the middle of ThursdAI live sho...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 AI21 Jamba 1.5, DIY Meme Faces, 8yo codes with AI and a Doomsday LLM Device?!Hey there, Alex here with an end of summer edition of our show, which did not disappoint. Today is the official anniversary of stable diffusion 1.4 can you believe it? It's the second week in the row that we have an exclusive LLM launch on the show (after Emozilla announced Hermes 3 on last week's show), and spoiler alert, we may have something cooking for next week as well!This edition of ThursdAI is brought to you by W&B Weave, our LLM observability toolkit, letting you evaluate LLMs for your own use-case easily
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🧨 ThursdAI - July 25 - OpenSource GPT4 intelligence has arrived - Meta LLaMa 3.1 405B beats GPT4o! Mistral Large 2 also, Deepseek Code v2 ALSO - THIS WEEKHoly s**t, folks! I was off for two weeks, last week OpenAI released GPT-4o-mini and everyone was in my mentions saying, Alex, how are you missing this?? and I'm so glad I missed that last week and not this one, because while GPT-4o-mini is incredible (GPT-4o level distill with incredible speed and almost 99% cost reduction from 2 years ago?) it's not open source. So welcome back to ThursdAI, and buckle up because we're diving into what might just be the craziest week in open-source AI since... well, ever!This week, we saw...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - July 11 - Mixture of Agents & Open Router interviews (no news this week)Hey all, Alex here… well, not actually here, I’m scheduling this post in advance, which I haven’t yet done, because I'm going on vacation! That’s right, next week is my birthday 🎉 and a much needed break, somewhere with a beach is awaiting, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging for too long, so posting this episode with some amazing un-released before material. Mixture of Agents x2Back in the far away days of June 20th (not that long ago but feels like ages!), Together AI announced a new paper, releas...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - June 20th - 👑 Claude Sonnet 3.5 new LLM king, DeepSeek new OSS code king, Runway Gen-3 SORA competitor, Ilya's back & more AI news from this crazy weekHey, this is Alex. Don't you just love when assumptions about LLMs hitting a wall just get shattered left and right and we get new incredible tools released that leapfrog previous state of the art models, that we barely got used to, from just a few months ago? I SURE DO! Today is one such day, this week was already busy enough, I had a whole 2 hour show packed with releases, and then Anthropic decided to give me a reason to use the #breakingNews button (the one that does the news show like sound on the live...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Jun 6th - 👑 Qwen2 Beats Llama-3! Jina vs. Nomic for Multimodal Supremacy, new Chinese SORA, Suno & Udio user uploads & more AI newsHey hey! This is Alex! 👋 Some podcasts have 1 or maaaybe 2 guests an episode, we had 6! guests today, each has had an announcement, an open source release, or a breaking news story that we've covered! (PS, this edition is very multimodal so click into the Substack as videos don't play in your inbox)As you know my favorite thing is to host the folks who make the news to let them do their own announcements, but also, hitting that BREAKING NEWS button when something is actually breaking (as in, happened just before or during the show) and...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - May 30 - 1000 T/s inference w/ SambaNova, <135ms TTS with Cartesia, SEAL leaderboard from Scale & more AI newsHey everyone, Alex here! Can you believe it's already end of May? And that 2 huge AI companies conferences are behind us (Google IO, MSFT Build) and Apple's WWDC is just ahead in 10 days! Exciting! I was really looking forward to today's show, had quite a few guests today, I'll add all their socials below the TL;DR so please give them a follow and if you're only in reading mode of the newsletter, why don't you give the podcast a try 🙂 It's impossible for me to add the density of knowledge that's being shared on sta...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - May 23 - OpenAI troubles, Microsoft Build, Phi-3 small/large, new Mistral & more AI newsHello hello everyone, this is Alex, typing these words from beautiful Seattle (really, it only rained once while I was here!) where I'm attending Microsoft biggest developer conference BUILD. This week we saw OpenAI get in the news from multiple angles, none of them positive and Microsoft clapped back at Google from last week with tons of new AI product announcements (CoPilot vs Gemini) and a few new PCs with NPU (Neural Processing Chips) that run alongside CPU/GPU combo we're familiar with. Those NPUs allow for local AI to run on these devices, making them AI...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - May 16 - OpenAI GPT-4o, Google IO recap, LLama3 hackathon, Yi 1.5, Nous Hermes Merge & more AI newsWow, holy s**t, insane, overwhelming, incredible, the future is here!, "still not there", there are many more words to describe this past week. (TL;DR at the end of the blogpost)I had a feeling it's going to be a big week, and the companies did NOT disappoint, so this is going to be a very big newsletter as well. As you may have read last week, I was very lucky to be in San Francisco the weekend before Google IO, to co-host a hackathon with Meta LLama-3 team, and it was a blast...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - May 9 - AlphaFold 3, im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot, Open Devin SOTA on SWE-Bench, DeepSeek V2 super cheap + interview with OpenUI creator & more AI newsHey 👋 (show notes and links a bit below)This week has been a great AI week, however, it does feel like a bit "quiet before the storm" with Google I/O on Tuesday next week (which I'll be covering from the ground in Shoreline!) and rumors that OpenAI is not just going to let Google have all the spotlight!Early this week, we got 2 new models on LMsys, im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot and im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot, and we've now confirmed that they are from OpenAI, and folks have been testing them with logic puzzles, role play and have bee...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Mar 28 - 3 new MoEs (XXL, Medium and Small), Opus is 👑 of the arena, Hume is sounding emotional + How Tanishq and Paul turn brainwaves into SDXL images 🧠👁️Hey everyone, this is Alex and can you believe that we're almost done with Q1 2024? March 2024 was kind of crazy of course, so I'm of course excited to see what April brings (besides Weights & Biases conference in SF called Fully Connected, which I encourage you to attend and say Hi to me and the team!) This week we have tons of exciting stuff on the leaderboards, say hello to the new best AI in the world Opus (+ some other surprises), in the open source we had new MoEs (one from Mosaic/Databricks folks, which tops the open...
2024-03-291h 35
MLOps.communityBecoming an AI Evangelist // Alex Volkov // #215Alex Volkov serves as the AI Evangelist with Weights & Biases, Host of ThursdAI, Founder and CEO of Targum, and AI Consultant GPU POOR Def. not an owl.MLOps podcast #215 with Alex Volkov, AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases, Becoming an AI Evangelist.// AbstractFollow Alex's journey into the world of AI, from being interested in running his first AI models to founding an AI startup, running a successful weekly AI news podcast & newsletter, and landing a job with @WeightsBiases.// BioAlex Volkov is an A...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI Feb 22nd - Groq near instant LLM calls, SDXL Lightning near instant SDXL, Google gives us GEMMA open weights and refuses to draw white people, Stability announces SD3 & more AI newsHey, this is Alex,Ok let's start with the big news, holy crap this week was a breakthrough week for speed! We had both Groq explode in popularity, and ByteDance release an updated SDXL model called Lightning, able to generate full blown SDXL 1024 images in 300ms. I've been excited about seeing what real time LLM/Diffusion can bring, and with both of these news release the same week, I just had to go and test them out together: Additionally, we had Google step into a big open weights role, and give...
2024-02-231h 48
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Feb 8 - Google Gemini Ultra is here, Qwen 1.5 with Junyang and deep dive into ColBERT, RAGatouille and DSPy with Connor Shorten and Benjamin ClavieHihi, this is Alex, from Weights & Biases, coming to you live, from Yosemite! Well, actually I’m writing these words from a fake virtual yosemite that appears above my kitchen counter as I’m not a Vision Pro user and I will force myself to work inside this thing and tell you if it’s worth it. I will also be on the lookout on anything AI related in this new spatial computing paradigm, like THIS for example! But back to rfeality for a second, we had quite the show today! We had the awesome time to have J...
2024-02-091h 53
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI Jan 11 - GPTs store, Mixtral paper, Phi is MIT + Phixtral, 🥯 by Jon Durbin owns the charts + Alex goes to SF again and 2 deep dive interviews 🎙️Hey hey everyone, how are you this fine ThursdAI? 👋 I’m gud thanks for asking!I’m continuing my experiment of spilling the beans, and telling you about everything we talked about in advance, both on the pod and in the newsletter, so let me know if this is the right way to go or not, for the busy ones it seems that it is. If you don’t have an hour 15, here’s a short video recap of everything we chatted about:ThursdAI - Jan 11 2024 TL;DRTL;DR of all topics covered + S...
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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🎉 ThursdAI Nov 30 // ChatGPT 1 year celebration special episode // covering the past 1 year in LLM/OSS AI 🥳🎶 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday chat GPT-eeeeeeee, happy birthday to you. Hey everyone, welcome to this special edition of ThursdAI where you're probably gonna have two emails and two podcast episodes today and you can choose which one you want to but we actually recorded both of them live it just they went a little long. ThursdAI - The only podcast that brings you yearly recaps since chatGPT was released (😂) This one is the more celebratory one, today is one year from the release of chat GPT an...
2023-11-301h 24
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - OpenAI DevDay recap (also X.ai grōk, 01.ai 200K SOTA model, Humane AI pin) and a personal update from Alex 🎊Hey everyone, this is Alex Volkov 👋 This week was an incredibly packed with news, started strong on Sunday with x.ai GrŌk announcement, Monday with all the releases during OpenAI Dev Day, then topped of with Github Universe Copilot announcements, and to top it all of, we postponed the live recording to see what hu.ma.ne has in store for us as AI devices go (Finally announced Pin with all the features) In between we had a new AI Unicorn from HongKong called Yi from 01.ai which dropped a new SOTA 34B model with...
2023-11-101h 56
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI Oct-26, Jina Embeddings SOTA, Gradio-Lite, Copilot crossed 100M paid devs, and more AI newsThursdAI October 26thTimestamps and full transcript for your convinience## [00:00:00] Intro and brief updates## [00:02:00] Interview with Bo Weng, author of Jina Embeddings V2## [00:33:40] Hugging Face open sourcing a fast Text Embeddings## [00:36:52] Data Provenance Initiative at dataprovenance.org## [00:39:27] LocalLLama effort to compare 39 open source LLMs +## [00:53:13] Gradio Interview with Abubakar, Xenova, Yuichiro## [00:56:13] Gradio effects on the open source LLM ecosystem## [01:02:23] Gradio local URL via Gradio Proxy## [01:07:10] Local inference on device with Gradio - Lite## [01:14:02] Transformers.js integration with Gradio-lite
2023-10-271h 39
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekA week of horror, an AI conference of contrastsA week of horror, an AI conference of contrastsHi, this is Alex. In the podcast this week, you'll hear my conversation with Miguel, a new friend I made in AI.engineer event, and then a recap of the whole Ai.engineer event I had with Swyx after the end. This newsletter is a difficult one for me to write, honestly, I wanted to skip this one entirely, struggling to fit the current events into my platform and the AI narrative, however, decided to write one anyway, as the events of the last week have...
2023-10-131h 29
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI Oct 4 - AI wearables, Mistral fine-tunes, AI browsers and more AI news from last weekBoy am I glad that not all AI weeks are like last week, where we had so much news and so many things happening that I was barely able to take a breath for the week! I am very excited to bring you this newsletter from San Fancisco this week, the AI mecca, the arena, the place where there are so many AI events and hack-a-thons that I don’t actually know how people get any work done!On that topic, I’m in SF to participate in the AI.engineer (by swyx and...
2023-10-061h 28
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅🔥ThursdAI Sep 28 - GPT4 sees, speaks and surfs, Cloudflare AI on GPUs,Mistral 7B, Spotify Translates, Meta AI everywhere, Qwen14B & more AI news from this INSANE week[00:00:00] Intro and welcome everyone[00:00:52] GPT4 - Vision from OpenAI[00:05:06] Safety concern with GPT4-V[00:09:18] GPT4 can talk and listen as well[00:12:15] Apple rumors, on device inference, and Siri[00:17:01] OpenAI Voice Cloning Tech used in Spotify to translate podcasts[00:19:44] On the risks of Voice Cloning tech being open sourced[00:26:07] Alex statement on purpose of ThursdAI[00:27:53] “AGI has been achieved internally”;[00:32:10] OpenAI, Jonny Ive and Masa are rumored to be working on a hardware device[00:33:51] Cloudflare AI - Serverless GPU on glob...
2023-09-291h 41
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🔥 ThursdAI Sep 14 - Phi 1.5, Open XTTS 🗣️, Baichuan2 13B, Stable Audio 🎶, Nougat OCR and a personal life update from AlexThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsHey, welcome to yet another ThursdAI 🫡 This episode is special for several reasons, one of which, I shared a personal life update (got to listen to the episode to hear 😉) but also, this is the first time I took the mountainous challenge of fixing, editing and “video-fying” (is that a word?) our whole live recording! All 3 hours of it, were condensed, sliced, sound improved (x audio quality is really dogshit) and uploaded for your convenience. Please let me know what you t...
2023-09-151h 31
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI Sep 7 - Falcon 180B 🦅 , 🔥 Mojo lang finally here, YaRN scaling interview, Many OSS models & more AI newsHey ya’ll, welcome to yet another ThursdAI, this is Alex coming at you every ThursdAI, including a live recording this time! Which was incredible, we chatted about Falcon 180B,had a great interview in the end with 3 authors of the YaRN scaling paper and LLongMa 128K context, had 3 breaking news! in the middle, MOJO🔥 has been released and Adept released a LLaMa comparable OSS model (and friend of the pod) @reach_vb showed an open ASR leaderboard on hugging face! We also covered an incredible tiny model called StarCoder 1B that was finetuned by friend of the p...
2023-09-0829 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🎙️ThursdAI - LLM Finetuning deep dive, current top OSS LLMs (Platypus 70B, OrctyPus 13B) authors & what to look forward toThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.newsBrief outline for your convenience:[00:00] Introduction by Alex Volkov[06:00] Discussing the Platypus models and data curation process by Ariel, Cole and Nathaniel[15:00] Merging Platypus with OpenOrca model by Alignment Labs* Combining strengths of Platypus and OpenOrca* Achieving state-of-the-art 13B model[40:00] Mixture of Experts (MOE) models explanation by Prateek and Far El[47:00] Ablation studies on different fine-tuning methods by TekniumFull transcript is available for our paid subscribers 👇 Why don’t you become one?Here’s a list...
2023-08-2052 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI Aug 17 - AI Vision, Platypus tops the charts, AI Towns, Self Alignment 📰 and a special interview with Platypus authors!Hey everyone, this is Alex Volkov, the host of ThursdAI, welcome to yet another recap of yet another incredibly fast past faced week.I want to start with a ThursdAI update, we now have a new website http://thursdai.news and a new dedicated twitter account @thursdai_pod as we build up the ThursdAI community and brand a bit more.As always, a reminder that ThursdAI is a weekly X space, newsletter and 2! podcasts, short form (Apple, Spotify) and the unedited long-form spaces recordings (RSS, Zealous page) for those who’d like the nitty gritty de...
2023-08-1816 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI Aug 10 - Deepfakes get real, OSS Embeddings heating up, Wizard 70B tops tops the charts and more!Hey everyone, welcome to yet another ThursdAI update! As always, I’m your host, Alex Volkov, and every week, ThursdAI is a twitter space that has a panel of experts, guests and AI enthusiasts who join to get up to date with the incredible fast pace of AI updates, learn together and listen to subject matter experts on several of the topics. Pssst, this podcast is now available on Apple, Spotify and everywhere using RSS and a new, long form, raw and uncut, full spaces recording podcast is coming soon! ThursdAI - Is supported by...
2023-08-1115 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Special Episode, interview with Nous Research and Enrico Shippole, fine-tuning LLaMa 2, extending it's context and moreHey there, welcome to this special edition of ThursdAI. This episode is featuring an interview with Nous Research, a group of folks who fine-tune open source large language models to make them better. If you are interested to hear how finetuning an open source model works, dataset preparation, context scaling and more, tune in! You will hear from Karan, Teknium, LBJ from Nous Research and Enrico who worked along side them. To clarify, Enrico is going in depth into the method called Rope Scaling, which is a clever hack, that extends the context length of...
2023-07-2337 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI July 13 - Show recap + NotesWelcome Friends, to the first episode of ThursdAI recap. If you can’t come to the spaces, subscribing is the next best thing. Distilled, most important updates, every week, including testimony and tips and tricks from a panel of experts. Join our community 👇Every week since the day GPT-4 released, we’ve been meeting in twitter spaces to talk about AI developments, and it slowly by surely created a community that’s thirsty to learn, connect and discuss information. Getting overwhelmed with daily newsletters about tools, folks wanted someone else to do the le...
2023-07-141h 42
Corruption Crime & CompliancePerson of the Year: The Trade Compliance Officer Featuring Alex CotoiaTrade compliance officers were recognized as the "Person of the Year" in 2022. Michael Volkov welcomes Alex Cotoia, Regulatory Manager, to discuss this development. Alex sheds light on the challenges faced by these professionals over the past year: from navigating the global pandemic to ensuring compliance with sanctions regulations, trade compliance officers have done it all. Alex Cotoia, Regulatory Manager at The Volkov Law Group, is a seasoned trade compliance expert with extensive knowledge across ITAR compliance, BIS compliance of commerce, and opacity sanctions. She brings valuable insights on the crucial role of compliance in t...
2023-02-0618 min
Corruption Crime & ComplianceUpdate on Export Controls and Sanctions: Interview with Alex CotoiaIn early October, the BIS announced two rules imposing significant export controls on semiconductor chips transactions for supercomputer end uses. This week’s show discusses recent developments in the sphere of export controls and sanctions. Alexander Cotoia, Regulatory Compliance Manager at the Volkov Law Group, joins Michael Volkov to explore the BIS’ ramping up of export control enforcement, including the new restrictions on China and Russia.Some ideas you’ll hear them explore are:The SQE route for experienced legal professionals aims to democratize the legal profession to include underrepresented minorities and other people...
2022-12-1223 min
Corruption Crime & ComplianceEpisode 185 -- Interview of Alex Cotoia (The Volkov Law Group) on Anti-Boycott ComplianceMike Volkov interviews Alex Cotoia, Regulatory Manager and Compliance Consultant at the Volkov Law Group, concerning trade compliance and anti-boycott issues.
Alex specializes in corporate risk assessments, evaluation of general compliance programs, and the remediation of compliance deficiencies. He also specializes in trade (export) compliance and is familiar with a broad range of issues arising under both the Arms Export Control Act and its implementing regulations (ITAR) as well as the Export Administration Act and its implementing regulations (EAR).
Alex can be reached at acotoia@volkovlaw.com.
2021-03-1433 min