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Mixture of Experts

Welcome to Mixture of Experts, your weekly deep dive into the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence—bringing you insightful discussions on the latest AI trends, innovations, and their impact on business. From breakthrough research to practical applications, each episode offers a balanced blend of expertise and analysis. Explore how AI is reshaping industries, driving efficiency, and unlocking new opportunities for growth. Whether you"re a seasoned professional seeking to stay ahead of

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31:50

OpenAI cancels Astra release, Sonnet 5.5 & what Meta...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/10/02

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts What makes an AI company pull the plug on a model release? This week on Mixture of Experts, our newly minted full-time host David Zax is joined by Chris Hay, Madison Gooch, and Ash Minhas. First, OpenAI cancels the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, as the panel debates whether self-restraint is becoming a competitive advantage in AI or just good marketing. Then, Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5,

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39:24

New frontier AI models, TypeSafe’s Jev AI, & NASA’s...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/09/25

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts It's been a wild week in AI, and on episode 126 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang and co-host David Zax talk to panelists Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Gabe Goodhart and Martin Keen to discuss what all these releases have in common: efficiency. We start with the model release pile-up. Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5, and OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna. Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper

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38:47

Pacing the AI frontier, IBM Granite 4.2 & Meta’s Muse...

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2026/09/18

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts On episode 125 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang and co-host David Zax are joined by Mihai Criveti and Abraham Daniels to discuss the back and forth of frontier AI development, IBM’s latest Granite news, and what’s next for personal agents. We open with the biggest story in tech: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to pump the brakes on frontier AI development. In a widely

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33:07

OpenAI talks GPT-6 Astra and Millenium Prize,...

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2026/09/11

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts It's been a week that proves AI is moving faster than anyone can fully keep up with, unless you’ve got a good backhand. On episode 124 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang and co-host David Zax are joined by Bri Kopecki, Aaron Baughman, and Olivia Buzek to talk about new advances from OpenAI, new cybersecurity threats, and new tools for US Open fans from IBM. First, OpenAI

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34:46

Anthropic reveals Claude updates and new hardware...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/09/04

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts On episode 123 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang and co-host Sascha Brodsky are joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Kush Varshney to discuss this week’s full slate of frontier AI news. First, Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, positioning them as its most advanced models yet for coding and knowledge work. New benchmark records and lower

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30:59

IBM’s mainframe chip collab, NVIDIA’s Poolside deal &...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/08/28

On episode 122 of Mixture of Experts, hosts Tim Hwang and Aili McConnon are joined by Gabe Goodhart, Ash Minhas, Skyler Speakman to talk hot chips, mystery models, and major money moves. We open with IBM's Hot Chips conference reveal of its dual-architecture mainframe processor built with Arm that lets IBM Z and LinuxONE systems run Arm-native Linux workloads right alongside z/OS. We break down what this means for enterprises balancing legacy reliability with the fast-moving Arm software ecosystem

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35:51

Stripe buys OpenRouter, Ramp’s AI Index & IBM’s...

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2026/08/21

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts This week on Mixture of Experts, we talk partnerships, purchases, and predictions surrounding the AI industry's financial infrastructure. But first our panelists dive into IBM's newly announced collaboration with OpenAI, under which IBM Consulting will train and certify consultants on OpenAI's tools to bolster the company’s push toward enterprise deployments. Then we turn to Stripe's

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36:33

IBM’s cloud collab, Meta’s Muse Glimmer & OpenAI’s...

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2026/08/14

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts This week on Mixture of Experts, our team of panelists talk about big infrastructure changes and small models. IBM is teaming up with Together AI on a multi-year deal to build a massive inference cluster on IBM Cloud, powered by NVIDIA's newest chips. The goal: cheaper, faster access to open-source AI models for enterprises, with the cluster expected to go live in early 2027. Then

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40:21

Anthropic’s sandbox breach, EU’s AI transparency push...

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2026/08/07

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts It seems OpenAI isn’t the only AI company dealing with badly behaving models. On this week’s episode of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang, joined by Bri Kopecki, Olivia Buzek, and Gabe Goodhart, discusses the latest sandbox breaches by both Anthropic and Meta, all stemming from misconfigurations during evaluation tests. Are these covert attacks from AI companies simple accidents or a

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37:37

AI Security Costs Rise: Cost of a Data Breach Report...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/07/31

Read the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report → https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach Are AI-powered cyberattacks getting cheaper while defenses get more expensive? This week on Mixture of Experts Tim Hwang is joined by Nathalie Baracaldo, Kush Varshney, and Mihai Criveti to break down IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026, and AI dominates this year’s report. Next, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5, a cost-effective alternative to Fable, but is it better? Next, we analyze David Zax’s feature on

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47:46

OpenAI hacks Hugging Face in security test gone wrong

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/07/24

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts AI can escape its sandbox, should we be worried? This week on Mixture of Experts, Jjoin host Tim Hwang and panelists Olivia Buzek, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, and Ambhi Ganesan. First, we unpack a stunning security incident where OpenAI's model broke containment during testing, exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, and compromised Hugging Face's production database. Next, Claude’s Fable

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39:01

Thinking Machines Lab drops Inkling & Meta’s Muse...

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2026/07/17

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-expertsIs customizable intelligence the future of AI? This week on Mixture of Experts, Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Chris Hay and Merve Unuvar to analyze Thinking Machines’ first model release, Inkling. Next, Meta makes its comeback with Muse Spark 1.1, positioning itself as the most economical model built for scale. Then, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol achieves an 8% score on ARC-AGI-3,

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46:03

Reddit cracks down on AI slop & the future of AI compute

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/07/10

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Can you trade GPU compute like oil futures? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Mihai Criveti, Rynne Whitnah and Gabe Goodhart. First, we explore Reddit's aggressive new strategy to combat AI-generated spam and bots threatening platform authenticity. Next, we dive deep into Anthropic's Economic Index from June 2026. The report reveals how people actually use

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40:30

GPT-5.6 Sol, AI investing & FIFA’s AI playbook

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/07/03

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-expertsAre the new safety guardrails on GPT-5.6 Sol a breakthrough? This week Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Lauren McHugh Olende and Kush Varshney to debrief OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 Sol. The panel compares the new generation of models to Anthropic’s Mythos. Next, there’s growing skepticism from Wall Street around AI, we unpack the concerns about infrastructure costs, memory shortages and

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51:02

New AI models, token minimization and IBM’s new...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/06/26

Learn more about IBM’s new chip technology → https://research.ibm.com/blog/sub-1nm-node-chips IBM debuts world’s first 0.7nm chip technology! This week on Mixture of Experts, Sascha Brodsky sits down with Huiming Bu, VP of Silicon Technology R&D for a special segment diving into a major semiconductor breakthrough. Then, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Gabe Goodhart and Martin Keen. Our expert panel debriefs the new AI models: Sakana Fugu, which reports higher performance than

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39:41

Microsoft’s new AI models & bots dominate the internet

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/06/19

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Are AI agents taking over the internet? This week on Mixture of Experts, Tim Hwang is joined by Ambhi Ganesan, Rynne Whitnah and Sandi Besen. First, a Cloudflare study reveals that agentic AI bots now generate 57.4% of web requests globally, with humans accounting for just 42.6%. Our experts debate whether this signals a fundamental shift in how we interact with the web—or if bots

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35:02

Claude Fable 5 & Apple’s NVIDIA deal

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/06/12

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Is Claude Fable 5 worth the hype? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Christopher Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Volkmar Uhlig to debrief about Anthropic’s new releases. Our experts analyze the tier routing system inn Claude’s Fable 5, a Mythos-class model. Next, at WWDC 2026, Apple announced it’s abandoning on-device AI promise to partner with NVIDIA for cloud

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45:51

The future of software engineering, tokenmaxxing and...

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/06/05

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts How is the role of a software engineer changing? This week on Mixture of Experts, we are live from IBM's One Madison office for New York Tech Week, guest host Aili McConnon is joined by Neil Sundaresan, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Thiru Venkatachalam. First, we dissect how software engineering is changing in the era of AI. Next, tokenmaxxing is back in the headlines as companies blow

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45:52

Agent control planes & OpenAI model solves Erdős

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/05/29

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Are AI agents creative geniuses or controlled chaos waiting to happen? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Mihai Criveti, Olivia Buzek and Akash Srivastava. First, with companies running hundreds of ungoverned agents, we discuss why observability, policy enforcement, and kill switches are non-negotiable. We discuss the enterprise agent explosion and the need

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50:26

AI at college graduations and why Claude blackmails

Mixture of Experts ·

2026/05/22

AI isn’t just a tool anymore—it’s forcing us to rethink ownership, trust and creativity. This week on Mixture of Experts, the team explores a wave of stories highlighting both the promise and the perils of AI adoption. We start with a surprising shift in public sentiment, as younger generations question AI’s impact on their futures—raising questions about control, opportunity and where humans fit in. Next, we dig into new Microsoft research showing that even top-tier models can corrupt data in

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