

ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI 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
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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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.

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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.

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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

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Mar 1, 2024 • 1h 54min
📅 ThursdAI - Feb 29 - Leap Year Special ✨
This podcast episode covers updates on AI art, diffusion, and 3D, Alibaba's EMO face animation, Ideogram 1.0 text generation, Mistral Large and Le Chat models, GGGenie from Google for interactive games, and OpenAI collaborations with Microsoft. It also discusses Matryoshka Representation Learning, Berkeley's Function-Calling leaderboard, and Argilla's OpenHermesPreferences dataset for RLHF & DPO.

Feb 23, 2024 • 1h 48min
📅 ThursdAI Feb 22nd - Groq near instant LLM calls, SDXL Lightning near instant SDXL, Google gives us GEMMA open weights and refuses to draw white people, Stability announces SD3 & more AI news
This podcast covers the breakthroughs in AI speed with Groq and ByteDance's Lightning model, Google's release of open weights models, SD3 announcement by Stability AI, and discussions on biases in image generation models. It also touches on advancements in real-time object detection, AI training deals, and the revolutionary AI architecture of Groq.

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Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 58min
🔥 ThursdAI - Feb 15, 2024 - OpenAI changes the Video Game, Google changes the Context game, and other AI news from past week
This podcast covers two exciting breaking news announcements - OpenAI's text-to-video generation and Google's update with a 1 million tokens context window. They discuss OpenAI's Sora model and Stable Cascade, a diffusion model. They also chat with Swyx about Latent Space and AI engineering. Topics range from AI advancements to community-building and succeeding in San Francisco.

Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 54min
📅 ThursdAI - Feb 8 - Google Gemini Ultra is here, Qwen 1.5 with Junyang and deep dive into ColBERT, RAGatouille and DSPy with Connor Shorten and Benjamin Clavie
Junyang from Alibaba discusses Qwen 1.5 and QwenVL. Deep dive into DSPy, ColBERT, and RAGatouille with Connor and Benjamin from Weights & Biases. Topics include open source LLMs, Google Gemini Ultra, and fine-tuning embedding models for code retrieval.


