ThursdAI - Recaps of the most high signal AI weekly spaces

ThursdAI - Recaps of the most high signal AI weekly spaces

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📅 ThursdAI - Jun 26 - Gemini CLI, Flux Kontext Dev, Search Live, Anthropic destroys books, Zucks superintelligent team & more AI news
From Weights & Biases, a special episode of ThursdAI (Wolfram took over while I'm on vacation 🏝️, and have tuned in as a regular listener), to discuss…
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Alex Volkov
📆 ThursdAI - June 19 - MiniMax M1 beats R1, OpenAI records your meetings, Gemini in GA, W&B uses Coreweave GPUs & more AI news
Listen now | From Weights & Biases, 2 video models top VEO3, a new eval leaderboard emerges (and we talk to its CEO) and OpenAI kills a bunch of…
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Pankaj Gupta
📆 ThursdAI - June 12 - Meta’s $15B ScaleAI Power Play, OpenAI’s o3-pro & 90% Price Drop!
From Weights & Biases: Meta drops a $15 billion bombshell acquiring a huge stake in ScaleAI and builds a superintelligence team, OpenAI unleashes…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Stefania Druga
, and 
Eric Provencher
1
📆 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…
From Weights & Biases (and AI Engineer conference) - Talking Gemini With Logan K, and reasoning with Jack Rae, hanging out with Swyx, Field interviews…
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Alex Volkov

May 2025

📆 ThursdAI - May 29 - DeepSeek R1 Resurfaces, VEO3 viral moments, Opus 4 a week after, Flux Kontext image editing & more AI news
From Weights & Biases, a "chill" week that included a new DeepSeek R1, a new SOTA image editing model, 2 interviews w/ Charlie Holtz & Linus Eckenstam…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Linus Ekenstam
, and 
Charlie Holtz
📆 ThursdAI - Veo3, Google IO25, Claude 4 Opus/Sonnet, OpenAI x Jony Ive, Codex, Copilot Agent - INSANE AI week
From Weights & Biases - the AI X-mas week is here, GoogleIO coverage, Claude 3 Opus (and Sonnet is here), OpenAI gets Jony Ive and launches Codex, and…
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Alex Volkov
1
📆 ThursdAI - May 15 - Genocidal Grok, ChatGPT 4.1, AM-Thinking, Distributed LLM training & more AI news
Listen now | From Weights & Biases, another week with a "rogue" AI, interview with Dillon from Nous about decentralized runs, a new chinese open source…
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Dillon Rolnick
ThursdAI - May 8th - new Gemini pro, Mistral Medium, OpenAI restructuring, HeyGen Realistic Avatars & more AI news
From Weights & Biases - a fairly chill week, Gemini 2.5 Pro IO edition, Mistral Medium without OSS and a SOTA AI Avatar from HeyGen that breaks reality…
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Alex Volkov
📆 ThursdAI - May 1- Qwen 3, Phi-4, OpenAI glazegate, RIP GPT4, LlamaCon, LMArena in hot water & more AI news
From Weights & Biases - GPT4 RIP (we had a wake!), Qwen3 is here, OpenAI admits GlazeGate & interview with Hamel & Shreya - 2 of worlds utmost evals…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Hamel Husain
, and 
Shreya Shankar

April 2025

ThursdAI - Apr 23rd - GPT Image & Grok APIs Drop, OpenAI ❤️ OS? Dia's Wild TTS & Building Better Agents!
From Weights & Biases -> GPT image is finally in the API, what was in the secret OSS meeting from OpenAI, interview with Kwindla on semantic VAD, and 12…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Kwindla Hultman Kramer
, and 
Nisten
ThursdAI - 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…
From Weights & Biases, what a crazy week with 2 OAI live streams with SOTA models, Google's response with Gemini 2.5 and a new Agent Protocol A2A…
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Todd Segal
💯 ThursdAI - 100th episode 🎉 - Meta LLama 4, Google tons of updates, ChatGPT memory, WandB MCP manifesto & more AI news
Meta drops chaotic LLaMA 4, Google blitzes AI at Next, DeepCoder-14B shows open RL magic, and OpenAI memory now recalls everything. We hit 100 episodes…
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Alex Volkov
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Michael Luo
, 
Liad Yosef
, 
Ido Salomon
, and 
Nisten
2
ThursdAI - Apr 3rd - OpenAI Goes Open?! Gemini Crushes Math, AI Actors Go Hollywood & MCP, Now with Observability?
From Weights & Biases - an incredible show with 3 guests (Nomic, All Hands and Meta), OpenAI open sourcing soon, AI Video is getting too realistic …
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Alex Volkov
, 
Zach Nussbaum
, and 
Xingyao Wang

March 2025

📆 ThursdAI - Mar 27 - Gemini 2.5 Takes #1, OpenAI Goes Ghibli, DeepSeek V3 Roars, Qwen Omni, Wandb MCP & more AI news
Listen now | From Weights & Biases - what an incredible week, we had Tulsee from Google to cover Gemini 2.5, Morgan from W&B to chat about MCP and…
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Morgan McGuire
ThursdAI - Mar 20 - OpenAIs new voices, Mistral Small, NVIDIA GTC recap & Nemotron, new SOTA vision from Roboflow & more AI news
Listen now | From Weights & Biases - an electric show, with 3 guests announcing breaking news, OpenAI's new emotional voice gen live watch party, SOTA…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Kwindla Hultman Kramer
, and 
Joseph
📆 ThursdAI Turns Two! 🎉 Gemma 3, Gemini Native Image, new OpenAI tools, tons of open source & more AI news
From Weights & Biases (still), come join our two year live show celebration with Wolfram, Nisten, LDJ and Sandra from Cohere, as we discuss the amazing…
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Alex Volkov
ThursdAI - Mar 6, 2025 - Alibaba's R1 Killer QwQ, Exclusive Google AI Mode Chat, and MCP fever sweeping the community!
From Weights & Biases Alibaba’s QwQ-32B model proves small is mighty, Google shows off AI Mode interview with VP product Robby Stein, and we go deep…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Dina Kozlov
, and 
Jason Kneen
2

February 2025

📆 Feb 27, 2025 - GPT-4.5 Drops TODAY?!, Claude 3.7 Coding BEAST, Grok's Unhinged Voice, Humanlike AI voices & more AI news
From Weights & Biases, some weeks we get 2 huge model drops, plus an interview with the awesome Kevin Hou from Windsurf about AI coding, IDEs, agents …
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Kevin Hou
2
📆 ThursdAI - Feb 20 - Live from AI Eng in NY - Grok 3, Unified Reasoners, Anthropic's Bombshell, and Robot Handoffs!
Listen now | From Weights & Biases (and from NY) a special edition of ThursdAI, with a deep conversation about LLM judges with Haize Labs, Grok 3 is…
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Alex Volkov
📆 ThursdAI - Feb 13 - my Personal Rogue AI, DeepHermes, Fast R1, OpenAI Roadmap / RIP GPT6, new Claude & Grok 3 imminent?
Listen now | From Weights & Biases, hear how my own AI went rogue and texted my ex, read about OpenAI new roadmap (no more GPT5), see blazing fast open…
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Alex Volkov
📆 ThursdAI - Feb 6 - OpenAI DeepResearch is your personal PHD scientist, o3-mini & Gemini 2.0, OmniHuman-1 breaks reality & more AI news
From Weights & Biases - a new chatGPT moment is here with DeepResearch, interview with Derya Unutmaz MD about what this means for science + o3-mini is…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Derya Unutmaz, M.D.
, and 
Nisten

January 2025

📆 ThursdAI - Jan 30 - DeepSeek vs. Nasdaq, R1 everywhere, Qwen Max & Video, Open Source SUNO, Goose agents & more AI news
From Weights & Biases, we have a jam packed update, from R1 that everyone can't stop talking about to new audio open source models, Mistral Small…
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Alex Volkov
, 
Simon Willison
, and 
Nisten
📆 ThursdAI - Jan 23, 2025 - 🔥 DeepSeek R1 is HERE, OpenAI Operator Agent, $500B AI manhattan project, ByteDance UI-Tars, new Gemini…
Listen now | From Weights & Biases - the craziest week of AI, R1 beats O1 but MIT license, $500B investment into AI with SoftBank, OpenAI Operator…
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Alex Volkov
📆 ThursdAI - Jan 16, 2025 - Hailuo 4M context LLM, SOTA TTS in browser, OpenHands interview & more AI news
Listen now | From Weights & Biases, a crazy week full of Open Source, including a one 4 million context model, state of the art TTS in the browser…
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Alex Volkov
 and 
Graham Neubig
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