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Every ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, ai engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on twitter spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world of AI for the past week. Topics include LLMs, Open source, New capabilities, OpenAI, competitors in AI space, new LLM models, AI art and diffusion aspects and much more. sub.thursdai.news

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Hey 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: more

Hey, 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 ... more

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, turni... more

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Hey, 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... more

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Kenton Varda
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Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Nov 6, 2025 - Kimi’s 1T Thinking Model Shakes Up Open Source, Apple Bets $1B on Gemini for Siri, and Amazon vs. Perplexity!
Skyler Miao
Head of engineering at MiniMax
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Episode: ThursdAI - Oct 30 - From ASI in a Decade to Home Humanoids: MiniMax M2's Speed Demon, OpenAI's Bold Roadmap, and 2026 Robot Revolution
Jessica Gallegos
Senior Product Manager at Google DeepMind
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Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 16 - VEO3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT adult mode, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX spark, Wordlabs RTFM & more AI news
Quinn Slack
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Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 16 - VEO3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT adult mode, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX spark, Wordlabs RTFM & more AI news
Vik Karpathy
Co-founder of Moon Dream
Moon Dream
Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Qwen‑mas Strikes Again: VL/Omni Blitz + Grok‑4 Fast + Nvidia’s $100B Bet
Jeremy Berman
AI researcher focusing on reasoning at Reflection AI.
Reflection AI
Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Sep 18 - Gpt-5-Codex, OAI wins ICPC, Reve, ARC-AGI SOTA Interview, Meta AI Glasses & more AI news
Roger Jinn
A machine learning engineer specialized in data and evaluation at News Research
News Research
Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Sep 4 - Codex Rises, Anthropic Raises $13B, Nous plays poker, Apple speeds up VLMs & more AI news
Alan Dao
Founder and researcher at Menlo Research
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Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Aug 14 - A week with GPT5, OSS world models, VLMs in OSS, Tiny Gemma & more AI news
Eli Bakouch
Works on the pre-training team at HuggingFace, focusing on the SmolLM project.
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Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Jul 10 - Grok 4 and 4 Heavy, SmolLM3, Liquid LFM2, Reka Flash & Vision, Perplexity Comet Browser, Devstral 1.1 & More AI News

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Alex Volkov
AI evangelist and host known for engaging discussions with a panel of experts, focusing on the latest AI technologies and developments.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 41 ratings
  • The best AI news podcast

    This is a great show for those who want to follow the latest developments in AI and want to get into the details about what makes each new thing special. If you are an AI practitioner, this is your show.

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    MoJo JoJo HoBo
    United Statesa year ago
  • best weekly AI summary you’ll get, especially for opensource

    Sorry for tooting my own horn here but this IS the best weekly recap of AI news because it includes criticism too often from the very people that build the models and tools.

    Doing this twitter space weekly with Alex for the last 10months has helped me personally remain competitive in whats going in AI and keep in close touch with the best researchers and builders in the world.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    nisten t
    Canada2 years ago

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📆 Oct 9, 2025 — Dev Day’s Agent Era, Samsung’s 7M TRM Shock, Ling‑1T at 1T, Grok Video goes NSFW, and Serverless RL arrives
Q: What is the significance of the app ecosystem introduced by OpenAI during Dev Day?
The panel discusses how this app ecosystem is aimed at integrating AI capabilities into everyday tools, enhancing user accessibility and experience.
📆 Oct 9, 2025 — Dev Day’s Agent Era, Samsung’s 7M TRM Shock, Ling‑1T at 1T, Grok Video goes NSFW, and Serverless RL arrives
Q: How do you evaluate AI models effectively?
Eric Provencher explains the importance of benchmarking AI models, particularly in coding environments, and how Repo Prompt allows users to submit scores and compare model performances.
📆 ThursdAI - Jul 3 - ERNIE 4.5, Hunyuan A13B, MAI-DxO outperforms doctors, RL beats SWE bench, Zuck MSL hiring spree & more AI news
Q: What are some of the notable news in AI this week?
The episode covers a variety of topics including Baidu's Ernie 4.5 release, Meta's hiring spree, and insights from guests Michael Luo and Ivan Burazin on their innovative projects.
📆 ThursdAI - May 1- Qwen 3, Phi-4, OpenAI glazegate, RIP GPT4, LlamaCon, LMArena in hot water & more AI news
Q: Can you help clarify the difference between foundation model evals and application-centric evals?
Foundation model evals test general knowledge, while application-centric evals are focused on specific use cases, assessing unique failure modes.
📆 ThursdAI - May 1- Qwen 3, Phi-4, OpenAI glazegate, RIP GPT4, LlamaCon, LMArena in hot water & more AI news
Q: What was the highlight of AI for you this week?
Qwen 3 was definitely the highlight because it's an amazing model that does it all.

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