
ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
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
Latest episodes

13 snips
May 10, 2024 • 1h 48min
📅 ThursdAI - May 9 - AlphaFold 3, im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot, Open Devin SOTA on SWE-Bench, DeepSeek V2 super cheap + interview with OpenUI creator & more AI news
The podcast features an interview with the OpenUI creator, discussing the project's success and community feedback. Other topics include breaking SOTA on Swe-Bench with Open Devin, new GPT chatbots from OpenAI, AlphaFold 3 by Google, and the latest AI innovations such as XLSDM and DeepSeek V2.

46 snips
May 3, 2024 • 1h 49min
ThursdAI - May 2nd - New GPT2? Copilot Workspace, Evals and Vibes from Reka, LLama3 1M context (+ Nous finetune) & more AI news
Reka from Reka AI Lab discusses Evals, Vibe checks, and a new paper on overfitting. Idan Gazit from GitHub Next talks about Copilot Workspace. Topics include LLama-3 rankings, GPT2-chat, and data contamination issues in AI models.

16 snips
Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 22min
📅 ThursdAI - April 25 - Phi-3 3.8B impresses, LLama-3 gets finetunes, longer context & ranks top 6 in the world, Snowflake's new massive MoE and other AI news this week
This podcast covers the release of Microsoft's Phi-3 3.8B model, Snowflake's hybrid MOE transformer, and llama models ranking in the top 6. Discussions include fine-tuning techniques, big AI models like Devin worth $2BN, and advancements in AI agents and startups. The episode also explores hardware product analysis, UI design impacts, and Apple's on-device AI inference plans.

26 snips
Apr 19, 2024 • 2h 14min
📅 ThursdAI - Apr 18th - 🎉 Happy LLama 3 day + Bigxtral instruct, WizardLM gives and takes away + Weights & Biases conference update
LLaMa 3 day celebration with new 8B and 70B models announced, Meta's collaboration with Google, model releases with improved benchmarks, AI integration in Premiere Pro, advancements in ML ops partnerships and fine-tuning libraries, discussions on Weights and Biases involvement, parameter usage in AI models, Reka's multi-modal capabilities, and weekly recap with gratitude to contributors and listeners.

Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 39min
📅 ThursdAI - Apr 11th, 2024 - GPT4 is king again, New Mixtral 8x22B + First finetune, New Gemini 1.5, Cohere beats old GPT4, more AI news
This week's AI news is buzzing with Gemini 1.5 updates, GPT-4 Turbo reclaiming the top spot, Mistral dropping a new Mixtral model, and HuggingFace/KAIST unveiling a fine-tuned model. Exciting advancements in AI models and finetuning techniques are stealing the spotlight!

Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 50min
📅 ThursdAI Apr 4 - Weave, CMD R+, SWE-Agent, Everyone supports Tool Use + JAMBA deep dive with AI21
The podcast covers exciting topics like the launch of Weights & Biases new toolkit Weave for LLM apps, updates on open-source LLMs, SWE-agent enhancements, Jamba deep dive with AI21, and Cloudflare AI updates. It also delves into innovative AI models like Command R+ and Cohere, discussing their capabilities and advancements in AI technology. Additionally, it explores AI model deployments, unreleased voice engine tech, and the evolution of AI 21 with the introduction of Jamba architecture.

8 snips
Mar 28, 2024 • 1h 35min
📅 ThursdAI - Mar 28 - 3 new MoEs (XXL, Medium and Small), Opus is 👑 of the arena, Hume is sounding emotional + How Tanishq and Paul turn brainwaves into SDXL images 🧠👁️
This podcast discusses the latest breakthroughs in AI, including new top AI models, emotional AI technology, and advancements in mind-reading technology. They also cover the evolution of fine-tuning models, AI rankings, and business advantages, offering a high signal weekly space for AI enthusiasts.

10 snips
Mar 22, 2024 • 1h 45min
📅 ThursdAI - Mar 21 - Grok, GTC, first OSS AI hardware, Neuralink Human, Prompting Claude and more AI news
The podcast covers a range of AI topics including open-source hardware, Neuralink advancements, prompting Claude project, GTC conference highlights, and the release of the O1 Open Interpreter. Corporate AI drama, Apple's MM1 model, and Google's Gemini 1.5 release are also discussed, along with tech advancements and future trends in AI technology.

Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 58min
🎂 ThursdAI BirthdAI March 14: Anthropic Haiku, Devin the new AI SWE, GPT4 gets hands, Cohere and Nous give us tool use models & more AI news
On its birthday, the podcast reflects on AI advancements, including models like Haiku and Devin. It explores tool use models, speculative decoding, and Opus vs. Haiku. The episode covers robotics integration, hardware news, and introduces Devin for coding tasks with reinforcement learning. The discussion extends to adapting to technological progress in reinforcement learning and multimodal code generation.

Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 45min
📅 ThursdAI - Mar 7 - Anthropic gives us Claude 3, Elon vs OpenAI, Inflection 2.5 with Pi, img-2-3D from Stability & More AI news
Anthropic celebrates Claude 3 release, Elon sues OpenAI, Inflection updates Pi 2.5, ex-Google employee charged with trading AI secrets with China, open source LLMs, Vision & Video advancements, Suno v3 alpha release blowing minds, AI Art & Diffusion updates, TripoSR for image-2-3D, Fully Connected conference in SF, Moonjoon vision language model updates, Genstruct 7B model introduction