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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 this is Alex, welcome to... the chillest week in AI, since ... a long time. Chill, if you consider Moderna and MERK announcing a cancer vaccine and surging 115% in a day, a chill week.

This week, the only two model drops we really saw came from... more

Hey, this is Alex, welcome back to your weekly dose of intense AI acceleration summer!

My weekend was consumed by thinking about the OpenAI hack and agent swarms, but then the torrent of AI releases took over, and we got back to back news (including... more

Hey all,

This week we saw a major shakeup at Google, with the departure of long time folks like Jeff Dean, and Oriol Vinyals, Demis stepping down from leading DeepMind, and the delayed release of the improved Gemini. While this was a big deal, it’s ... more

Hey, it’s Alex (yeah, I’m finally back from my vacation!)

What a freaking week to come back to! Just after our last episode was published, Anthropic releases Opus 5, Jensen joins X and drops the “Open Weights & AI Leadership” open letter, Kimi K3 i... more

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Romain Huet
Head of Developer Experience, OpenAI
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Episode: ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M users, GPT-5.6 & the Golden Age of AI Engineering
Allie Howe
Host of The Insecure Agent podcast
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Episode: ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M users, GPT-5.6 & the Golden Age of AI Engineering
Dominic Kundel
OpenAI executive guest
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Episode: ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
Darya Volkov
Marketing entrepreneur, Geeks360
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Episode: ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
Zubin Aysola
AGI-pilled lead, Weights & Biases
Weights & Biases / CoreWeave
Episode: ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
Alex Cheema
CEO, Exo Labs
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Episode: ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
Sean Grove
Founder of Linzumi; former OpenAI engineer
Linzumi
Episode: GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked
Thor Schaeff
From Google DeepMind, discussing Gemini Live Translate
Google DeepMind
Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Jun 11, 2026 - Fable & Mythos 5 are here, Anthropic gets caught sandbagging (then reverses), Siri AI finally works!? and we got live-translated on air
Chris Alexiuk
Nvidia engineer, talks about Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nvidia
Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Jun 4 - NVIDIA drops Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B open), Microsoft becomes a frontier lab, Ideogram 4 goes open, Agent Arena & more

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Alex Volkov
AI evangelist withWeights & Biases from CoreWeave; host and lead commentator focusing on AI tooling, open-source ecosystems, and developer tooling.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 47 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.

    Apple Podcasts
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    MoJo JoJo HoBo
    United States2 years 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
    Canada3 years ago

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High-quality deep dives with live demos and tool comparisons.
A practical AI news show loved by practitioners.
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Great for listeners who want critical takes and openness about tooling strengths/limits.

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📅 ThursdAI - Apr 2 - Gemma 4 is the new LLama, Claude Code Leak, OpenAI raises $122B & more AI news
Q: How does Gemma 4 compare to other open models in terms of local deployment?
Gemma 4 is designed to run on consumer hardware with 31B/26B parameter configurations, offering strong performance and on-device capabilities that challenge larger proprietary models.
📅 ThursdAI - Apr 2 - Gemma 4 is the new LLama, Claude Code Leak, OpenAI raises $122B & more AI news
Q: What was the impact of Claude Code's leak on the open-source community?
It sparked widespread discussion on security, licensing, and the potential for clean-room rewrites and porting, while catalyzing a wave of open-source momentum and scrutiny of vendor practices.
📆 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 Internet
Q: How does GPT 5.3 Codex compare to Opus 4.6 in terms of performance?
GPT 5.3 Codex is reported to score higher on benchmarks, particularly in coding tasks, with a significant performance edge over Opus 4.6.
📆 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 Internet
Q: What new features does the Codex app offer?
The Codex app includes automation capabilities, skills marketplace, and a streamlined interface for managing multiple projects simultaneously.
📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the price
Q: Could you talk about this scale and its architecture?
With reinforcement learning, we noticed that we could actually scale the model's capability to a very high performance, even with a smaller model.

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What is ThursdAI about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A weekly AI news roundup features a panel of engineers, researchers, and tooling experts dissecting the biggest AI developments from the past week. Expect fast-paced debates, live demonstrations, and pragmatic takeaways on OpenAI, Google DeepMind, open-source ecosystems, agent frameworks, security, and governance. Episodes blend product news, hands-on demos of live tools, and candid industry chatter, making it valuable for builders, product teams, or executives tracking how rapid AI advances translate into real-world workflows and business impact. A standout traits include deep dives into tooling ecosystems (agents, sandboxes, security) and a willingness to compare rivals head-to-head, which helps listeners separate hype from practical outc... more

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