ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 7 CoreWeave releases since Apr 2025, most recently Kimi K3 on Dedicated Inference on Sep 3, 2026. Highlights include CoreWeave Sandboxes, OpenPipe Acquisition, Marimo. Every entry below has the episode segment where we covered it live, plus primary-source links and key numbers where we have them.
Kimi K3 (2.8T) runs on CoreWeave Dedicated Inference on GB300 NVL72
CoreWeave added Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 to Dedicated Inference, running on GB300 NVL72 systems. Alex says it 'purrs like a kitten' and a token promotion is planned on the CoreWeave and W&B accounts.
CoreWeave posts first Vera Rubin results: up to 10x more tokens per megawatt than Blackwell
CoreWeave published the first customer results for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, claiming up to 10x more DeepSeek-R1 tokens per megawatt than GB200 at similar interactivity — an efficiency leap that lands directly on the industry's power-constrained bottleneck. Covered on the Jul 23 live show's infrastructure block.
CoreWeave Sandboxes launch in preview via the W&B SDK
CoreWeave Sandboxes is now an official Harbor provider, letting teams run agentic workloads like Terminal-Bench safely at scale on CoreWeave infrastructure. It plugs CoreWeave's isolated execution environments directly into the Harbor eval/agent ecosystem.
CoreWeave signs Anthropic, Meta ($21B), and Jane Street ($6B + $1B)
CoreWeave announced a multibillion-dollar deal with Anthropic, a $21B expansion with Meta (taking the relationship past $35B total), and a Jane Street deal worth $6B in cloud plus $1B in equity. CoreWeave now serves 9 of the top 10 AI labs, cementing its position as the neocloud backbone of frontier AI.
CoreWeave acquires Marimo, the reactive Python notebook company
CoreWeave, the parent company of Weights & Biases, acquired Marimo, makers of the open-source reactive Python notebook. Covered in the This Week's Buzz segment, the deal brings a popular developer notebook tool into CoreWeave's AI cloud stack.
CoreWeave acquires OpenPipe to expand its AI training stack
CoreWeave acquired OpenPipe, the fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning platform behind the ART trainer. Covered in the This Week's Buzz segment, the deal brings OpenPipe's model-customization tooling under the same roof as CoreWeave's GPU cloud and Weights & Biases.
CoreWeave hits 800 tok/s on Llama 405B with NVIDIA GB200 Blackwell
CoreWeave announced record-breaking AI inference benchmarks using NVIDIA's new GB200 Grace Blackwell superchips: 800 tokens/sec on Llama 3.1 405B, plus 33,000 tokens/sec on Llama 2 70B with H200s. It is a marker of how fast inference hardware is accelerating.
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