Howdy, Alex here, let me catch you up on everything that happened in AI: (btw; If you haven’t heard from me last week, it was a Substack glitch, it was a great episode with 3 interviews, our 3rd birthday, I highly recommend checking it out here ) This week was started on a relatively “chill” note, if you consider Anthropic enabling 1M context window chill. And then escalated from there. We covered the new GPT 5.4 Mini & Nano variants from OpenAI. How MiniMax used autoresearch loops to improv...
Mar 20, 2026•1 hr 32 min
Hey, Alex here 👋 Today was a special episode, as ThursdAI turns 3 🎉 We’ve been on air, weekly since Pi day, March 14th, 2023. I won’t go too nostalgic but I’ll just mention, back then GPT-4 just launched with 8K context window, could barely code, tool calls weren’t a thing, it was expensive and slow, and yet we all felt it, it’s begun! Fast forward to today, and this week, we’ve covered Andrej Karpathy’s mini singularity moment with AutoResearcher, a whole fruit fly brain uploaded to a simulat...
Mar 13, 2026•1 hr 38 min
Hey folks, Alex here, let me catch you up! Most important news about this week came today, mid-show, OpenAI dropped GPT 5.4 Thinking (and 5.4 Pro), their latest flagship general model, less autistic than Codex 5.3, with 1M context , /fast mode and the ability to steet it mid-reasoning. We tested it live on the show, it’s really a beast. Also, since last week, Anthropic said no to Department of War’s ultimatum and it looks like they are being designated as supply chain risk , OpenAI swooped in to...
Mar 06, 2026•1 hr 36 min
Hey, it’s Alex, let me tell you why I think this week is an inflection point. Just this week: Everyone is launching autonomous agents or features inspired by OpenClaw ( Devin 2.2 , Cursor , Claude Cowork , Microsoft, Perplexity and Nous announced theirs), METR and ArcAGI 2,3 benchmarks are getting saturated , 1 person companies nearing 1M ARR within months of operation by running AI agents 24/7 (we chatted with one of them on the show today, live as he broke $700K ARR barrier) and the US Departm...
Feb 27, 2026•1 hr 50 min
Hey, it’s Alex, let me catch you up! Since last week, OpenAI convinced OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to join them, while keeping OpenClaw.. well... open. Anthropic dropped Sonnet 4.6 which nearly outperforms the previous Opus and is much cheaper, Qwen released 3.5 on Chinese New Year’s Eve, while DeepSeek was silent and Elon and XAI folks deployed Grok 4.20 without any benchmarks, and it’s 4 500B models in a trenchcoat? Also, Anthropic updated rules state that it’s breaking ToS to use their...
Feb 20, 2026•1 hr 32 min
Hey dear subscriber, Alex here from W&B, let me catch you up! This week started with Anthropic releasing /fast mode for Opus 4.6 , continued with ByteDance reality-shattering video model called SeeDance 2.0 , and then the open weights folks pulled up! Z.ai releasing GLM-5 , a 744B top ranking coder beast, and then today MiniMax dropping a heavily RL’d MiniMax M2.5 , showing 80.2% on SWE-bench, nearly beating Opus 4.6! I’ve interviewed Lou from Z.AI and Olive from MiniMax on the show today ba...
Feb 13, 2026•1 hr 28 min
Hey, Alex from W&B here 👋 Let me catch you up! The most important news about AI this week today are, Anthropic updates Opus to 4.6 with 1M context window , and they held the crown for literally 1 hour before OpenAI released their GPT 5.3 Codex also today, with 25% faster speed and lower token utilization. “GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test resul...
Feb 06, 2026•1 hr 38 min
Hey guys, Alex here 👋 This week was so dense, that even my personal AI assistant Wolfred was struggling to help me keep up! Not to mention that we finally got to try one incredible piece of AI tech I’ve been waiting to get to try for a while! Clawdbot we told you about last week exploded in popularity and had to rebrand to Molt...bot OpenClaw after Anthropic threatened the creators, Google is shipping like crazy, first adding Agentic features into Chrome (used by nearly 4B people daily!) then s...
Jan 30, 2026•1 hr 30 min
Hey! Alex here, with another weekly AI update! It seems like ThursdAI is taking a new direction, as this is our 3rd show this year, and a 3rd deep dive into topics (previously Ralph , Agent Skills ), please let me know if the comments if you like this format. This week’s deep dive is into Clawdbot, a personal AI assistant you install on your computer, but can control through your phone, has access to your files, is able to write code, help organize your life, but most importantly, it can self im...
Jan 23, 2026•1 hr 38 min
Hey ya’ll, Alex here, and this week I was especially giddy to record the show! Mostly because when a thing clicks for me that hasn’t clicked before, I can’t wait to tell you all about it! This week, that thing is Agent Skills! The currently best way to customize your AI agents with domain expertise, in a simple, repeatable way that doesn’t blow up the context window! We mentioned skills when Anthropic first released them ( Oct 16 ) and when they became an open standard but it didn’t really click...
Jan 16, 2026•1 hr 41 min
Hey folks, Alex here from Weights & Biases, with your weekly AI update (and a first live show of this year!) For the first time, we had a co-host of the show also be a guest on the show, Ryan Carson (from Amp) went supernova viral this week with an X article (1.5M views) about Ralph Wiggum (yeah, from Simpsons) and he broke down that agentic coding technique at the end of the show. LDJ and Nisten helped cover NVIDIA’s incredible announcements during CES with their Vera Rubin upcoming platfor...
Jan 08, 2026•1 hr 47 min
Hey all, Happy new year! This is Alex, writing to you for the very fresh start of this year, it’s 2026 already, can you believe it? There was no live stream today, I figured the cohosts deserve a break and honestly it was a very slow week. Even the chinese labs who don’t really celebrate X-mas and new years didn’t come out with a banger AFAIK. ThursdAI - AI moves fast, we’re here to make sure you never miss a thing! Subscribe :) Tho I thought it was an incredible opportunity to finally post the ...
Jan 01, 2026•30 min
Ho Ho Ho, Alex here! (a real human writing these words, this needs to be said in 2025) Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate) and welcome to the very special yearly ThursdAI recap! This was an intense year in the world of AI, and after 51 weekly episodes (this is episode 52!) we have the ultimate record of all the major and most important AI releases of this year! So instead of bringing you a weekly update (it’s been a slow week so far, most AI labs are taking a well deserved break, the Cchine...
Dec 25, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Hey folks 👋 Alex here, dressed as 🎅 for our pre X-mas episode! We’re wrapping up 2025, and the AI labs decided they absolutely could NOT let the year end quietly. This week was an absolute banger—we had Gemini 3 Flash dropping with frontier intelligence at flash prices, OpenAI firing off GPT 5.2 Codex as breaking news DURING our show, ChatGPT Images 1.5, Nvidia going all-in on open source with Nemotron 3 Nano, and the voice AI space heating up with Grok Voice and Chatterbox Turbo. Oh, and Goog...
Dec 19, 2025•39 min
Hey everyone, December started strong and does NOT want to slow down!? OpenAI showed us their response to the Code Red and it’s GPT 5.2, which doesn’t feel like a .1 upgrade! We got it literally as breaking news at the end of the show, and oh boy! The new kind of LLMs is here. GPT, then Gemini, then Opus and now GPT again... Who else feels like we’re on a trippy AI rolercoaster? Just me? 🫨 I’m writing this newsletter from a fresh “traveling podcaster” setup in SF (huge shoutout to the Chroma te...
Dec 12, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Hey yall, Alex here 🫡 Welcome to the first ThursdAI of December! Snow is falling in Colorado, and AI releases are falling even harder. This week was genuinely one of those “drink from the firehose” weeks where every time I refreshed my timeline, another massive release had dropped. We kicked off the show asking our co-hosts for their top AI pick of the week, and the answers were all over the map: Wolfram was excited about Mistral’s return to Apache 2.0, Yam couldn’t stop talking about Claude Op...
Dec 05, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Hey, Alex here, I recorded these conversations just in front of the AI Engineer auditorium, back to back, after these great folks gave their talks, and at the epitome of the most epic AI week we’ve seen since I started recording ThursdAI. This is less our traditional live recording, and more a real podcast-y conversation with great folks, inspired by Latent.Space . I hope you enjoy this format as much as I’ve enjoyed recording and editing it. AntiGravity with Kevin Kevin Hou and team just launch...
Dec 02, 2025•46 min
Hey ya’ll, Happy Thanskgiving to everyone who celebrates and thank you for being a subscriber, I truly appreciate each and every one of you! Just wrapped up the third ( 1 , 2 ) Thanksgiving special Episode of ThursdAI, can you believe November is almost over? We had another banger week in AI, with a full feast of AI released, Anthropic dropped the long awaited Opus 4.5, which quickly became the top coding LLM, DeepSeek resurfaced with a math model, BFL and Tongyi both tried to take on Nano Banan...
Nov 27, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 I’m writing this one from a noisy hallway at the AI Engineer conference in New York, still riding the high (and the sleep deprivation) from what might be the craziest week we’ve ever had in AI. In the span of a few days: Google dropped Gemini 3 Pro , a new Deep Think mode , generative UIs, and a free agent-first IDE called Antigravity .xAI shipped Grok 4.1 , then followed it up with Grok 4.1 Fast plus an Agent Tools API.OpenAI answered with GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max , a long‑h...
Nov 20, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Hey, this is Alex! We’re finally so back! Tons of open source releases, OpenAI updates GPT and a few breakthroughs in audio as well, makes this a very dense week! Today on the show, we covered the newly released GPT 5.1 update, a few open source releases like Terminal Bench and Project AELLA (renamed OASSAS), and Baidu’s Ernie 4.5 VL that shows impressive visual understanding! Also, chatted with Paul from 11Labs and Dima Duev from the wandb SDK team, who brought us a delicious demo of LEET, our ...
Nov 13, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Hey, Alex here! Quick note, while preparing for this week, I posted on X that I don’t remember such a quiet week in AI since I started doing ThursdAI regularly, but then 45 min before the show started, Kimi dropped a SOTA oss reasoning model, turning a quiet week into an absolute banger. Besides Kimi, we covered the updated MCP thinking from Anthropic, and had Kenton Varda from cloudflare as a guest to talk about Code Mode, chatted about Windsurf and Cursor latest updates and covered OpenAI’s in...
Nov 07, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Hey, it’s Alex! Happy Halloween friends! I’m excited to bring you this weeks (spooky) AI updates! We started the show today with MiniMax M2, the currently top Open Source LLM, with an interview with their head of eng, Skyler Miao, continued to dive into OpenAIs completed restructuring into a non-profit and a PBC, including a deep dive into a live stream Sam Altman had, with a ton of spicy details, and finally chatted with Arjun Desai from Cartesia, following a release of Sonic 3, a sub 49ms voic...
Oct 30, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Hey everyone, Alex here! Welcome... to the browser war II - the AI edition! This week we chatted in depth about ChatGPT’s new Atlas agentic browser, and the additional agentic powers Microsoft added to Edge with Copilot Mode (tho it didn’t work for me) Also this week was a kind of crazy OCR week, with more than 4 OCR models releasing, and the crown one is DeepSeek OCR, that turned the whole industry on it’s head (more later) Quite a few video updates as well, with real time lipsync from Decart, ...
Oct 24, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Hey folks, Alex here. Can you believe it’s already the middle of October? This week’s show was a special one, not just because of the mind-blowing news, but because we set a new ThursdAI record with four incredible interviews back-to-back! We had Jessica Gallegos from Google DeepMind walking us through the cinematic new features in VEO 3.1. Then we dove deep into the world of Reinforcement Learning with my new colleague Kyle Corbitt from OpenPipe. We got the scoop on Amp’s wild new ad-supported ...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 We’re deep in the post-reality era now. Between Sora2, the latest waves of video models, and “is-that-person-real” cameos, it’s getting genuinely hard to trust what we see. Case in point: I recorded a short clip with (the real) Sam Altman this week and a bunch of friends thought I faked it with Sora-style tooling. Someone even added a fake Sora watermark just to mess with people. Welcome to 2025. This week’s episode and this write-up focus on a few big arcs we’re all l...
Oct 10, 2025•1 hr 41 min
Hey everyone, Alex here (yes the real me if you’re reading this) The weeks are getting crazier, but what OpenAI pulled this week, with a whole new social media app attached to their latest AI breakthroughs is definitely breathtaking! Sora2 released and instantly became a viral sensation, shooting to the top 3 free iOS spot on AppStore, with millions of videos watched, and remixed. On weeks like these, even huge releases like Claude 4.5 are taking the backseat, but we still covered them! For list...
Oct 03, 2025•1 hr 40 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sub.thursdai.news Hola AI aficionados, it’s yet another ThursdAI, and yet another week FULL of AI news, spanning Open Source LLMs, Multimodal video and audio creation and more! Shiptember as they call it does seem to deliver, and it was hard even for me to follow up on all the news, not to mention we had like 3-4 breaking news during the show today! This week was yet another Qwen-mas, with Alibaba absolutely dominating across open sou...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Hey folks, What an absolute packed week this week, which started with yet another crazy model release from OpenAI, but they didn't stop there, they also announced GPT-5 winning the ICPC coding competitions with 12/12 questions answered which is apparently really really hard ! Meanwhile, Zuck took the Meta Connect 25' stage and announced a new set of Meta glasses with a display! On the open source front, we yet again got multiple tiny models doing DeepResearch and Image understanding better than ...
Sep 19, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Hey Everyone, Alex here, thanks for being a subscriber! Let's get you caught up on this weeks most important AI news! The main thing you need to know this week is likely the incredible Image model that ByteDance released, that overshoots the (incredible image model from last 2 weeks) nano 🍌. ByteDance really outdid themselves on this one! But also, a video model with super fast generation, OpenAI rumor made Larry Ellison the richest man alive, ChatGPT gets MCP powers (under a flag you can enabl...
Sep 12, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Wohoo, hey ya’ll, Alex here, I'm back from the desert (pic at the end) and what a great feeling it is to be back in the studio to talk about everything that happened in AI! It's been a pretty full week (or two) in AI, with Coding agent space heating up, Grok entering the ring and taking over free tokens, Codex 10xing usage and Anthropic... well, we'll get to Anthropic. Today on the show we had Roger and Bhavesh from Nous Research cover the awesome Hermes 4 release and the new PokerBots benchmark...
Sep 05, 2025•1 hr 38 min
