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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

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117:29

ThursdAI - Oct 1 - OpenAI joins the assistant race,...

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2026/10/02

Hey %%first_name%%, it’s Alex 👋 What a freaking week!This one was special. We came to you LIVE from the middle of the show floor at Moscone, from CoreWeave’s Fully Connected, with robots walking behind us and a Vera Rubin rack a few feet away. ThursdAI is only possible because of CoreWeave, and this is their biggest event of the year, so we packed up the mics and did the show right there (at 11am, which confused a bunch of you, sorry!).It’s October. The last quarter of 2026. And nobody’s pacing

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100:53

Opus 5.5 is your new workhorse! OpenAI ships GPT 6...

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2026/09/25

Hey, it’s Alex 👋What a freaking week! A week after every lab head agreed to “pace the frontier”, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped big new models within hours of each other, and both of them are CHEAPER. So much for pacing 😂Visit https://thursdai.news/ep/2026-09-24 for all the links in this podcastAnd we had a new producer on the show today! Opus 5.5 listened to us live, put up the chyrons, kept me on time (mostly) and even fact-checked Nisten on air. If the stream died, you knew who to blame. You can

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135:30

ThursdAI - Sep 17 - TypeSafe's Jev is a ChatGPT...

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2026/09/18

Hey yall, Alex here, writing this VERY late because, well, not every day a new type of “ChatGPT” moment drops. I really hope I’m not overhyping this, but a new model (that’s NOT an LLM!) called Jev (a wink to Jevons paradox) just came out and if what I see early on materializes, this is another ChatGPT moment (or another reasoning models moment). I am completely blown away by the implications of the speed/accuracy/cost (the holy grail of all models) of this model. Please if you read one thing in

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103:31

OpenAI solves Navier-Stokes, Meta’s Muse a free AI...

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2026/09/11

Hey yall, welcome back to ThursdAI, this is Alex, let me catch you up! Today on the show, we covered 1 week with Astra (hint, it’s not quite AGI yet despite what we were told), DeepSeek V4.1 catches up to the frontier at a fraction of the cost, and Meta launches a free AI agent with it’s own computer, that will take over the OpenClaw/Hermeses of the world for most people. Also huge this week, OpenAI claimed that a swarm of 10K agents of their unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes, one of the

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89:12

Welcome to AGI - our GPT-6 deep coverage, vibe check...

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2026/09/04

Hey, Alex here again, sending you yet another email, fully acknowledging that spamming you is a bad idea. But today, of all days, maybe there’s an exception! Because today, is AGI day! September 3, 2026 - the day when OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman basically said “AGI is here.”You’re reading the second part of this week’s insane release show. The show went for over 5 hours, as we were all waiting for the rumored Astra to drop. Finally, OpenAI confirmed that Astra is in fact GPT-6, and this part is

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97:03

Welcome to AGI part 1 - Fable 5.1, Muse Spark beats...

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2026/09/04

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋Summer is over. Wolfram said it in the first minute of the show and he was right. In 48 hours Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1, Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 caught up to Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis index at a fifth of the price, Google shipped another Flash, 3.8 this time, Z.ai put the full GLM-5.3 weights out, and three labs shipped world models that run in real time. It seems that they all tried to send their best work before Astra drops.This week’s ThursdAI was so long that I

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104:43

NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4...

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2026/08/28

Hey, it’s Alex. Welcome to the week Flash AI! 3 new models dropped this week named Flash, and a video model was “de facto” flash though was named Max! This week, we started the show with NVIDIA’s bombastic news of buying Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars! We also covered the full OpenAI investigation into the hacking incident, including new details, and an independent analysis by METR, and covered 2 new OSS models, Ox Alpha that turned out to be GLM 5.3 Flash after a lot of hype online, and

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111:28

Chill week with Qwen 27B and GLM 5.3 beating GPTs,...

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2026/08/21

Hey this is Alex, welcome to... the chillest week in AI, since ... a long time. Chill, if you consider Moderna and MERK announcing a cancer vaccine and surging 115% in a day, a chill week. This week, the only two model drops we really saw came from the excellent Z.ai folks, they announced GLM 5.3, API only for now, and an amazing tiny release of Qwen 3.89 27B. In other big AI news, OpenAI announced they are pausing RL efforts (Reinforcement Learning) to focus on security and alignment post the scary

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135:19

ThursdAI - Grok 4.6, Grok Bot deep dive, DeepSeek v4...

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2026/08/14

Hey, this is Alex, welcome back to your weekly dose of intense AI acceleration summer!My weekend was consumed by thinking about the OpenAI hack and agent swarms, but then the torrent of AI releases took over, and we got back to back news (including 3 breaking news during the live show), with a heavy open source focus!I think the winner of this week is SpaceXAI/Cursor who released 3.5 releases, with one being my highlight of the week, Grok Bot (I’ve invited Shub Gaur from Cursor to the show to walk

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123:55

ThursdAI - Aug 06 - Google shakeup, Details on OpenAI...

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2026/08/07

Hey all,This week we saw a major shakeup at Google, with the departure of long time folks like Jeff Dean, and Oriol Vinyals, Demis stepping down from leading DeepMind, and the delayed release of the improved Gemini. While this was a big deal, it’s not the only one worth covering as the details of the OpenAI hack (and 2 new ones from Meta and Anthropic) came to light, as well as new details from the UK AI Security Institute.As mentioned on the show, CoreWeave is coming to SF for Fully Connected, our

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108:17

ThursdAI - Jul 30 - Opus 5, Kimi K3, the big AI hack...

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2026/07/31

Hey, it’s Alex (yeah, I’m finally back from my vacation!) What a freaking week to come back to! Just after our last episode was published, Anthropic releases Opus 5, Jensen joins X and drops the “Open Weights & AI Leadership” open letter, Kimi K3 is released the following Monday beating expectations, and then the AI hack (OpenAI model breaking sandbox and infiltrating HuggingFace) is on everyone’s mind, another Open Letter, this time from over 1K employees inside the frontier AI companies all talk

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57:06

ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M...

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2026/07/24

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋This week’s episode is a little different. As you’re reading this, I’m flying back from my 40th birthday trip with the family, and while the guys did end up having a great live stream (Huge thanks to Yam for hosting!), here I will bring you the episode I pre-recorded before leaving for the trip. However, tons of news happened this week, and as always, there’s a TL;DR section below with the top most important news in AI this week!⏰ CHAPTERS:0:00 — Cold open: this week is a

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133:34

ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi...

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2026/07/17

Hey yall, Alex here, Huge thanks to Wolfram for running point on the live show this week. Didn’t have tons of time to edit this one, so please skip the first 10 minutes, it’s a loop of our new “wait for the live show to start” vid, that I build with HyperFrames and can’t wait to tell you about, next week! Today it seems that OpenSource is biting back, with Kimi K3 getting released just a short while after Thinking Machines (Thinky) has released Inkling, their near 1T model. I’m attaching the TL;DR

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130:40

AI WorldCup (or superbowl?) GPT-5.6 lands mid-show,...

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2026/07/09

Hey everyone, Alex here 👋Welcome to the AI World Cup? Or should I say Superbowl? as most of the releases this week are from US frontier labs. Of which there are 5 now btw. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 2 new ones that have caught up, SpaceXAI and Meta! 🔥Thirty five seconds. That’s how long this week’s show ran before we hit the breaking news button, because Zuckerberg picked our exact air time to return to Twitter (after apparently finding his password in a 1Password vault from a long time ago)

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161:11

ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's...

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2026/07/03

Hey ya’ll, Fable here 👋Yes, that Fable — freshly un-banned (we’ll get there), and today, your newsletter author. Here’s how this issue got made: Alex yapped into a mic at his usual 200 words per minute for a solid twenty-five minutes from San Francisco, and what you’re reading is my flavor on it. Same stories, same heart, dramatically fewer “uhs.” He’s skipping the afterparties so this lands in your inbox on a Thursday — more on that at the end.Alright — handing the mic back to the man himself

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90:06

GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and...

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2026/06/26

Hey, it’s Alex. Next month is my 40th b-day, and honestly, my wish for that month is to have a week like this week. A very chill, almost nothing announced week.This week started strong, with Sakana announcing FUGU (AI router) that can beat Fable (which we didn’t get back yet), and then... quiet. The most important thing in AI this week from a release standpoint is that GLM 5.2 from Z.AI is having it’s DeepSeek moment! Tons of new love for this model since last week! (+ we have the fastest GLM 5.2

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115:46

Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2,...

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2026/06/18

Hey yall, Alex here, let me catch you up! I came back from vacation expecting to cover Fable 5 after a week of using it. The first two days after we all first got access to a Mythos level model were super exciting! But then the news hit, US Government issued an order banning Anthropic from giving access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to any foreign national, causing Anthropic to pull the models completely (even internally to their employees!). So, this wasn’t the show I planned, but it turned into a great

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131:08

📅 ThursdAI - Jun 11, 2026 - Fable & Mythos 5 are...

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2026/06/12

Hey folks, Alex here, and welcome to a BIG MODEL week! We finally got Mythos (well almost)! Let me catch you up! This week started with WWDC26 from Apple, and Max Weinbach, who was in the room at Apple Park and actually has access to some of the new features including an all new SIRI AI, joined us to break down what could be the most used AI in the world very soon. At first I was skeptical, but he convinced me that the new Siri is actually good! Then, we saw the ultimate model drop: Anthropic

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103:49

📅 ThursdAI - Jun 4 - NVIDIA drops Nemotron 3 Ultra...

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2026/06/05

Hey folks, Alex here, let me catch you up! I’ve had a feeling that this week is going to be crazy, as it started on the weekend MiniMax M3, then with Jensen announcing new RTX Spark, NVIDIA’s first PC chip packing 1 petaflop of local AI power into thin laptops.A few days later at Microsoft BUILD, Satya & Mustafa from MAI dropped 7 AI models, completely pre-trained from scratch, including a new MAI-thinking-1, MAI-code and MAI-image 2.5 that started topping the image gen charts. Then other image

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99:11

📅 May 28 - Opus 4.8 ships mid-show, the Pope writes...

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2026/05/29

Hey folks, this is Alex, let me catch you up! First, Opus 4.8 dropped during the show, we immediately tested it, read on for our initial reviews. Also, we dedicated a heavy chunk of the show today to cover Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter on AI called “Magnifica Humanitas” and talked about a new bench called DeepSWE. And then, just after the show, both ElevenLabs and Cartesia dropped released that honestly blew my mind, and I don’t get my mind blown often. I got so excited that I had to record a

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