Our 215th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 07/04/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

Cloudflare's new AI data scraper blocking feature, its potential implications, and technical challenges
Meta's aggressive recruitment for its Super Intelligence Labs division is covered, highlighting key hires from OpenAI and other leaders in the field
Anthropic loses significant talent to Cursor, with details on their new economic futures program focusing on AI's impact on the labor market
Notable open-source AI model releases from Baidu and Tencent are also discussed, including their performance metrics and potential applications.

Timestamps + Links:

Tools & Apps

Applications & Business

Projects & Open Source

(00:46:57) Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5
(00:51:55) Tencent Open Sources Hunyuan-A13B: A 13B Active Parameter MoE Model with Dual-Mode Reasoning and 256K Context
(00:57:09) Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench
(01:00:11) GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
(01:04:10) DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation

Research & Advancements

Policy & Safety

Finding Proof, Not Promises: An IAQ Conversation