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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 y’all, Alex here, let me catch you up!

Jensen Huang went on Lex and said AGI has been achieved. We’ll get to that.

The biggest demo moment: Gemini 3.1 Flash Live launched - Google’s omni model that sees, hears, and searches the web in real time... more

Howdy, Alex here, let me catch you up on everything that happened in AI:

(btw; If you haven’t heard from me last week, it was a Substack glitch, it was a great episode with 3 interviews, our 3rd birthday, I highly recommend checking it out here)

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Hey, 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,... more

Hey 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 t... more

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Chris Alexiuk
Product research engineer at Nvidia, LLMWizard
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Episode: 🎂 ThursdAI — 3rd BirthdAI: Singularity Updates Begin with Auto Researcher, Uploaded Brains, OpenClaw Mania & NVIDIA's $26B Bet on Open Source
Matt Van Horn
Creator of Last 30 Days
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Episode: 🎂 ThursdAI — 3rd BirthdAI: Singularity Updates Begin with Auto Researcher, Uploaded Brains, OpenClaw Mania & NVIDIA's $26B Bet on Open Source
Ben Serra
Founder of Polsia, building an AI company that helps other businesses grow autonomously
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Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents
Nader Dabit
Developer Relations professional and advocate for Cognition's AI tools
Cognition
Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents
Philip Kiely
Works at BaseTen; Author of 'Inference Engineering'
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Episode: 📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents
Olive Song
Lead researcher at MiniMax, discussing MiniMax 2.5
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Episode: 📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the price
Dan Peguine
Tech entrepreneur with 20 years experience
Episode: 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 22 - Clawdbot deep dive, GLM 4.7 Flash, Anthropic constitution + 3 new TSS models
Eleanor Berger
Founder of Agentic Ventures
Agentic Ventures
Episode: 📆 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!
Will Brown
A researcher at Prime Intellect known for his takes and memes on Twitter
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Episode: ThursdAI - Jan 1 2026 - Will Brown Interview + Nvidia buys Groq, Meta buys Manus, Qwen Image 2412 & Alex New Year greetings

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Alex Volkov
AI evangelist with Weights & Biases, host of ThursdAI, active in AI tooling and agentic AI discussions

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 42 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 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.

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    Canada2 years ago

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• Listeners value the show's crisp weekly AI briefings and candid takes.
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📆 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.
📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the price
Q: What makes GLM-5 a whole major release update versus just a 4.8 or 4.9?
The scale has increased a lot and we introduced a brand new asynchronous reinforcement learning framework called SLIM.
📆 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.

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

A weekly AI roundup featuring a panel of engineers, researchers, and industry experts who unpack the most consequential developments in the past seven days. Topics typically span large language models, open-source progress, new model capabilities, AI tooling, and strategic moves across major players, with a knack for practical takeaways on benchmarks, deployment, and productivity. The format often includes live testing moments, candid opinions, and context on how fresh releases affect real-world AI workstreams, making it valuable for practitioners, builders, and decision-makers tracking the competitive landscape.

Noteworthy traits include a strong emphasis on hands-on discussion, openness to critique of new tech, and a steady stream of gue... more

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