
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

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Jan 12, 2024 β’ 1h 17min
π ThursdAI Jan 11 - GPTs store, Mixtral paper, Phi is MIT + Phixtral, π₯― by Jon Durbin owns the charts + Alex goes to SF again and 2 deep dive interviews ποΈ
The podcast covers various interesting topics such as advancements in language models, Mistral's rise as one of the top LOMs, and OpenAI's launch of GPT store. They also discuss conditional training techniques using CRLFT and upcoming hackathons with sponsors. The Luma team updates and enhancements to the Genie are also highlighted.

Jan 5, 2024 β’ 1h 39min
π ThursdAI Jan 4 - New WizardCoder, Hermes2 on SOLAR, Embedding King? from Microsoft, Alibaba upgrades vision model & more AI news
New WizardCoder achieves 79% HumanEval score. Teknium's Hermes2 on SOLAR 10.7B. Microsoft's E5 SOTA text embeddings with Mistral. Alibaba updates QWEN-VL PLUS to 14B. Nvidia + Suno release NeMo Parakeet beating Whisper on english ASR. Stanford's Mobile ALOHA bot - Open source cooking robot.

Dec 29, 2023 β’ 1h 34min
π ThursdAI - Dec 28 - a BUNCH of new multimodal OSS, OpenAI getting sued by NYT, and our next year predictions
Topics covered include new multimodal OSS releases, OpenAI being sued by the NYT, predictions for 2024, open source LLMs, Apple's ML-Ferret model, controversy surrounding the Upstage model, lawsuit implications on licensing and bias, copyright concerns for B6's image generation, and predictions for open-source language model systems in 2024.

Dec 22, 2023 β’ 1h 22min
πThursdAI - LAION down, OpenChat beats GPT3.5, Apple is showing where it's going, Midjourney v6 is here & Suno can make music!
This week's podcast covers controversial topics in AI, including the takedown of the LAION 5B dataset due to CSAM allegations, challenges in evaluating AI models, and the advancements in transformer architectures. They also discuss Apple's MLX platform, Midjourney v6's image generation capabilities, and Microsoft Copilot's new plugins for AI music generation. The hosts emphasize the importance of evaluation frameworks and highlight the implications of data set controversies.

Dec 14, 2023 β’ 1h 49min
π ThursdAI - Live @ NeurIPS, Mixtral, GeminiPro, Phi2.0, StripedHyena, Upstage 10B SoTA & more AI news from last (insane) week
This podcast covers a range of interesting topics including Open Source LLMs, Mixtral MoE, Mistral 0.2 instruct, Upstage Solar 10B, Striped Hyena architecture, EAGLE decoding method, Deci.ai's new SOTA 7B model, Microsoft's Phi 2.0 weights, QuiP LLM quantization & Compression, and Gemini Pro access over API.

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Dec 8, 2023 β’ 1h 52min
π ThursdAI Dec 7th - Gemini is out-ish, Grok is out, OSS AI Event in SF, Waymo rides, and more AI news from the past week π
Guests Akshay, Ollama, Nous Research, Alignment Labs & A16Z discuss highlights from the Open Source AI meetup in SF. Topics covered include Google's Gemini release, AI interaction, Mojo as a potential threat to PyTorch, conversations with notable figures in the AI community, multi-modal support, and exciting developments in AI.

Nov 30, 2023 β’ 1h 25min
π ThursdAI Nov 30 // ChatGPT 1 year celebration special episode // covering the past 1 year in LLM/OSS AI π₯³
Celebrate the one-year anniversary of chat GPT and its revolutionary capabilities. Explore the evolution of language models and AI assistants. Discover the impact of synthetic data and the release of GPT 4 with upgraded features. Learn about GPT 4 benchmarks, OpenAI's price reduction, and self-determination for AI engineers. Dive into the power of prompts and Anthropic's cloud releases. Discuss the release of LAMO 2 and its integration into Azure and Amazon services.

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Nov 23, 2023 β’ 1h 56min
π¦ ThursdAI Thanksgiving special - OpenAI ctrl+altman+delete, Stable Video, Claude 2.1 (200K), the (continuous) rise of OSS LLMs & more AI news
This Thanksgiving special episode covers the OpenAI drama, stable video diffusion, and the release of Claude 2.1. The topics range from voice interfaces, gratitude, and imagination unlocking to tracking training models and advancements in vision models and AI video generation.

Nov 17, 2023 β’ 1h 47min
π ThursdAI Nov 16 - Live AI art, MS copilots everywhere, EMUs from Meta, sketch-to-code from TLDraw, Capybara 34B and other AI news!
This special edition of ThursdAI features exciting topics such as live AI art, MS copilots, EMUs from Meta, sketch-to-code from TLDraw, and more AI news!

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Nov 9, 2023 β’ 1h 56min
π ThursdAI - OpenAI DevDay recap (also X.ai grΕk, 01.ai 200K SOTA model, Humane AI pin) and a personal update from Alex π
This week's podcast features guest Yi from 01.ai who released a new SOTA 34B model. The hosts discuss OpenAI Dev Day, new AI models, and the announcement of hu.ma.ne's Pin. They also share personal updates, including joining Weights & Biases. The chapters cover topics such as log probabilities, GPT vs assistance, code interpreter tool, storage costs, and more.