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Last Week in AI

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Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!

Episodes

#206 - Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench

Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 04/07/2025 Try out the Astrocade demo here ! https://www.astrocade.com/ Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of ...

Apr 09, 20251 hr 14 minEp. 246

#205 - Gemini 2.5, ChatGPT Image Gen, Thoughts of LLMs

Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/28/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showc...

Apr 01, 20252 hr 34 minEp. 245

#204 - OpenAI Audio, Rubin GPUs, MCP, Zochi

Our 204th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/21/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Baidu launched two new multimodal models, Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1, boasting competitive pricing a...

Mar 24, 20252 hr 49 minEp. 244

#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics

Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/14/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential m...

Mar 17, 20252 hr 46 minEp. 243

#202 - Qwen-32B, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, LLM Cognitive Behaviors

Our 202nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/07/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Join our Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP In this episode: Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMin...

Mar 09, 20251 hr 20 minEp. 242

#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 4

Our 201st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 03/02/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Sharon Zhou Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - The release of GPT-4.5 from OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Grok 3 from XA...

Mar 05, 202559 minEp. 241

#200 - ChatGPT Roadmap, Musk OpenAI Bid, Model Tampering

Our 200th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/14/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: OpenAI announces plans to unify their model offerings, moving away from multiple separ...

Feb 17, 20252 hr 48 minEp. 240

#199 - OpenAI's 03-mini, Gemini Thinking, Deep Research, s1

Our 199th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 02/09/2025 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - OpenAI's deep research feature capability launched, allowing models to generate deta...

Feb 12, 20252 hr 38 minEp. 239

#198 - DeepSeek R1 & Janus, Qwen2.5, OpenAI Agents

Our 198th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/31/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - DeepSeek releases R1, a competitive AI model comparable to OpenAI’s O1, leading to m...

Feb 02, 20252 hr 37 minEp. 238

AI Computing Hardware - Past, Present, and Future

A special one-off episode with a deep dive into the past, present, and future of how computer hardware makes AI possible. Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google and Mistral sign deal...

Jan 29, 20252 hr 4 minEp. 237

#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/17/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest-hosted by the folks from Latent Space Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligen...

Jan 20, 20251 hr 24 minEp. 236

#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign

Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/10/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innov...

Jan 13, 20252 hr 47 minEp. 235

#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space

Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/04/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podca...

Jan 05, 20252 hr 39 minEp. 234

#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment

Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 12/19/2024 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harne...

Dec 30, 20242 hrEp. 233

#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI...

Dec 23, 20242 hr 5 minEp. 232

#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2

Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated... Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all...

Dec 16, 20242 hr 58 minEp. 231

#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives

Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence If you...

Dec 05, 20242 hr 42 minEp. 230

#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights

Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdiscipli...

Nov 28, 20242 hr 37 minEp. 229

#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI

Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: * OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model ...

Nov 17, 20242 hr 43 minEp. 228

#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0

Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . This episode was sponsored by The Generator . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . In this episode: * Meta's open-source m...

Nov 08, 20242 hr 52 minEp. 227

#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . This episode was sponsored by The Generator . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form ....

Oct 28, 20242 hr 10 minEp. 226

#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes

Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast . Check out Jon’s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at contact@las...

Oct 20, 20242 hr 34 minEp. 225

#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed

Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] In this episode: Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative fe...

Oct 12, 20242 hr 30 minEp. 224

#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?

Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] In this episode: OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced vo...

Oct 02, 20242 hr 30 minEp. 223

#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback a...

Sep 26, 20242 hr 48 minEp. 222

# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved

Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Sponsors: - Agent.ai is the global marketplace and network for AI builders and fans. Hire AI agen...

Sep 17, 20242 hr 39 minEp. 221

#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] In this episode: - Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along wi...

Sep 15, 20242 hr 17 minEp. 220

#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047

Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both,...

Sep 03, 20242 hr 5 minEp. 219

#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist

Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both,...

Aug 20, 20242 hr 58 minEp. 218

#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk

Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai...

Aug 16, 20242 hr 6 minEp. 217