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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past weekThursdAI - Oct 8 - OpenAI drops 722 math papers, Haiku 5.5 hits 10 cents & moreHey %%first_name%%, another banger AI week, let me catch you up!We say this often but this week we all felt the acceleration! Just look at one Tuesday. OpenAI dropped 722 math manuscripts. Meta( With Stripe, Shopify and Walmart) announced a new agent protocol. OpenAI opened up the Decisions API. Mistral came back with Le Chonk (Mistral 4), Claude moved into Google Docs, and we at CoreWeave shipped RL Rollouts. That was ONE day. Then the rest of the week happened 😂 Haiku 5.5, D1, and tons more!I had 48 topics on my list, so I asked Claude to...
2026-10-092h 02
Ready Set DoHow To Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI Development Team In 18 Months - w/ KunalHere's the description, formatted for RSS/Spotify (timestamps on their own lines with spacing so they don't collapse):Seven years ago, Kunal Mishra was a summer intern at DRDO, facing the choice every engineering student knows: take the safe campus placement, or bet on the harder thing. He bet on machine learning. 🎯That bet ran through a master's in the USA at Northeastern University and dropped him into the 2024 job market with no return offer and no sponsorship. Tough for anyone. Harder for an international student.So he built something. A 30-million-parameter LLM fro...
2026-08-1237 min
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...
2026-01-091h 46
Chain of Thought | AI Agents, Infrastructure & EngineeringBeyond Transformers: How Liquid AI Is Rethinking LLM Architecture | Maxime LabonneThe transformer architecture has dominated AI since 2017, but it’s not the only approach to building LLMs - and new architectures are bringing LLMs to edge devicesFull transcript and chapters: https://chainofthought.show/podcast/43-beyond-transformers-how-liquid-ai-is-rethinking-llm-architecture-maxime-labonne/Maxime Labonne, Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI and creator of the 67,000+ star LLM Course, joins Conor Bronsdon to challenge the AI architecture status quo. Liquid AI’s hybrid architecture, combining transformers with convolutional layers, delivers faster inference, lower latency, and dramatically smaller footprints without sacrificing capability. This alternative architectural philosophy creates models that run...
2025-11-1252 min
Masters of Automation - A podcast about the future of work.Maxime Labonne: Edge AI and the Future of Localized Intelligence with Private, offline LLMsThe following is a conversation between Alp Uguray and Maxime Labonne. SummaryIn this episode of the Masters of Automation podcast, host Alp Uguray interviews Maxime Labonne, discussing the challenges and innovations in running large language models (LLMs) on edge devices. They explore the importance of post-training techniques for enhancing small models, the future of local AI models, and the integration of AI into everyday applications. The conversation also touches on the role of context in AI performance, architectural considerations, and the dual paths of AI development. Maxim shares his journey from cybersecurity to AI...
2025-08-1500 min
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...
2025-07-111h 49
Learning from Machine LearningMaxime Labonne: Designing beyond Transformers | Learning from Machine Learning #12On this episode of Learning from Machine Learning, I had the privilege of speaking with Maxime Labonne, Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI. We traced his journey from cybersecurity to the cutting edge of model architecture. Maxime shared how the future of AI isn't just about making models bigger—it's about making them smarter and more efficient.Maxime's work demonstrates that challenging established paradigms requires taking steps backward to leap forward. His framework for data quality—accuracy, diversity, and complexity—offers a blueprint for anyone working with machine learning systems.Most importantly, Maxime's perspective on learni...
2025-05-291h 03
DataFramed#300 End to End AI Application Development with Maxime Labonne, Head of Post-training at Liquid AI & Paul-Emil Iusztin, Founder at Decoding MLThe roles within AI engineering are as diverse as the challenges they tackle. From integrating models into larger systems to ensuring data quality, the day-to-day work of AI professionals is anything but routine. How do you navigate the complexities of deploying AI applications? What are the key steps from prototype to production? For those looking to refine their processes, understanding the full lifecycle of AI development is essential. Let's delve into the intricacies of AI engineering and the strategies that lead to successful implementation.Maxime Labonne is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Liquid AI, serving...
2025-05-051h 00
Paroles d'IA#007 - Maxime Labonne, Liquid AI - La spin-off du MIT à la conquête des modèles d'IA nouvelle générationDans ce septième épisode de Paroles d'IA, Paul Mochkovitch reçoit Maxime Labonne, Head of Post-Training chez Liquid AI, une startup née du MIT qui vient de lever $250M pour redéfinir l’optimisation des modèles d’IA. Dans cet entretien, Maxime partage son parcours, de ses débuts en cybersécurité à ses travaux de pointe sur les LLMs chez Airbus, JP Morgan, et maintenant Liquid AI. Il est aussi l'auteur du très populaire LLM Course sur GitHub, une ressource de référence pour les passionnés d’IA.Au p...
2025-01-161h 10
Comptoir IA 🎙️🧠🤖🦙 Llama 3.1 405B : Thomas Scialom dévoile l'avenir de l'IA open source chez Meta🦙 Découvrez le nouvel épisode de Comptoir IA avec Thomas Scialom, PhD, Senior Staff Research Scientist chez Meta, pour parler du nouveau modèle Llama 3.1 405B !C’est la 3️⃣ème participation de Thomas au podcast, ce qui est un indicateur de l’activité de Meta dans l’IA générative ! Le nouveau modèle a été très bien accueilli, avec un positionnement open source affirmé, marquant un stade de maturité pour l'IA générative chez Meta avec une lettre de Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source AI Is the Path Forward.Thomas Scialom nous présente le tou...
2024-08-0333 min
Let's Talk AI#73 - LLMs, RAG, Graph Neural Networks and Open Source with Maxime Labonne🎙️ Who is Maxime Labonne?Maxime Labonne is a Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Liquid AI. Maxime received his PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of Paris and has been working with machine learning since 2019. He has applied his expertise in various contexts, including R&D, industry, finance, and academia. He is also an AI/ML Google Developer Expert. Maxime is widely known for creating popular LLMs on Hugging Face, like AlphaMonarch-7B, Beyonder-4x7B, Phixtral, and NeuralBeagle14. He also released LLM tools, such as LLM AutoEval, LazyMergekit, LazyAxolotl, and AutoGGUF. Maxime is the author of the t...
2024-07-1156 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Gemma 2, AI Engineer 24', AI Wearables, New LLM leaderboardHey everyone, sending a quick one today, no deep dive, as I'm still in the middle of AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 in San Francisco (in fact, I'm writing this from the incredible floor 32 presidential suite, that the team here got for interviews, media and podcasting, and hey to all new folks who I’ve just met during the last two days!) It's been an incredible few days meeting so many ThursdAI community members, listeners and folks who came on the pod! The list honestly is too long but I've got to meet friends of the po...
2024-06-271h 21
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...
2024-05-101h 47
The Prompt DeskHow do we know if Llama 3 is actually any better with Maxime LabonneIf you are anything like us, for 36 hours your Twitter and LinkedIn feeds were set ablaze by claims that Llama 3 is the greatest LLM since sliced bread. But how do we know that is actually the case? How do we separate the hype and noise from the reality? On what basis can we credibly claim that one LLM is better than another?On this episode of The Prompt Desk, Justin Macorin and I brought on LLM expert Maxime Labonne, who has developed the open-source package LLM-autoeval. In the episode, he shares with us the techniques researchers are...
2024-04-2434 min
AI StoriesHow He Built The Best 7B Params LLM with Maxime Labonne #43Our guest today is Maxime Labonne, GenAI Expert, book author and developer of NeuralBeagle14-7B, one of the best performing 7B params model on the open LLM leaderboard. In our conversation, we dive deep into the world of GenAI. We start by explaining how to get into the field and resources needed to get started. Maxime then goes through the 4 steps used to build LLMs: Pre training, supervised fine-tuning, human feedback and merging models. Throughout our conversation, we also discuss RAG vs fine-tuning, QLoRA & LoRA, DPO vs RLHF and how to deploy LLMs in production.
2024-03-0753 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI - Sunday special on Merging with Maxime LaBonneHey everyone, we have an exciting interview today with Maxime Labonne. Maxime is a senior Machine Learning Scientist at JPMorgan, the author of Hands on GNNs book and his own ML Blog, creator of LazyMergeKit (which we cover on the pod) and holds a PHD in Artificial Intelligence from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Maxime has been mentioned on ThursdAI a couple of times before, as he released the first Phi mixture-of-experts, and has previously finetuned OpenHermes using DPO techniques which resulted in NeuralChat7B For the past couple of months, following AI...
2024-01-2835 min
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week📅 ThursdAI Jan 18 - Nous Mixtral, Deepmind AlphaGeometry, LMSys SGLang, Rabbit R1 + Perplexity, LLama 3 is training & more AI news this week👋 Hey there, been quite a week, started slow and whoah, the last two days were jam-packed with news, I was able to barely keep up! But thankfully, the motto of ThursdAI is, we stay up to date so you don’t have to! We had a milestone, 1.1K listeners tuned into the live show recording, it’s quite the number, and I’m humbled to present the conversation and updates to that many people, if you’re reading this but never joined live, welcome! We’re going live every week on ThursdAI, 8:30AM pacific time.TL;DR of all...
2024-01-191h 10
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week🔥 ThursdAI Sunday special - Deep dives into Crew AI with Joao then a tasty Bagel discussion with Jon DurbinThursdAI - Sunday special deep dive, interviews with Joao, and Jon, AI agent Crews and Bagel Merges. Happy Sunday dear reader, As you know by now, ThursdAI pod is not a standard interview based podcast, we don't focus on a 1:1 guest/host conversation, but from time to time we do! And this week I was very lucky to have one invited guest and one surprise guest, and I'm very happy to bring you both these conversations today. Get your Crew together - interview with João Moura, creator of CrewAIWe'll f...
2024-01-1542 min