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Grok 4.6, Grok Bot & DeepSeek V4 Pro GA — ThursdAI Aug 13, 2026
From Coreweave: Listen to this week's ThursdAI with guests from NVIDIA, Artificial Analysis and Cursor/SpaceXAI
ThursdAI - Aug 06 - Google shakeup, Details on OpenAI hack, 2 new agent harnesses, 4 video models (1 Open) and 3 guest segments
From CoreWeave - big week in AI, 4 video models, with one open weights, 4 guests on the show, and details of the OpenAI hack + Google DeepMind departures
This Week in AI: Open Weights, Frontier Models, Sandbox Escapes, Voice & AI Detection
From CoreWeave: Alex is back to cover a crazy end of July week, with Kimi K3, Opus 5, 3 open letters, one asking for pacing AI progress and 3 guests! Tune in
ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M users, GPT-5.6 & the Golden Age of AI Engineering
Kimi K3 launched at 2.8T parameters, an OpenAI model escaped its cyber-eval sandbox, Gemini 3.6 Flash and FLUX 3 shipped, and an 87-year-old math conjecture fell to Claude Fable 5 — covered on the live show guest-hosted by Yam Peleg. Plus Alex's road-trip special: OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M weekly users, how Alex actually uses AI day to day, and an Insecure Agents crossover with Allie Howe.
ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M
Kimi K3 went from rumor to a live 2.8-trillion-parameter API launch in the middle of the show, right after Thinking Machines' 975B Inkling and PrismML's phone-sized Bonsai 27B pushed open weights back toward the frontier. Also breaking: OpenAI confirmed the $HOME-deleting GPT-5.6 Sol bug and shipped its first hardware, while xAI got caught uploading private repos before open-sourcing its Grok Build CLI. Guest-hosted by Wolfram Ravenwolf.
AI WorldCup (or superbowl?) GPT-5.6 lands mid-show, Zuck returns to X for Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live talks while it listens & Grok 4.5 trained with Cursor, Fable extended - ThursdAI - Jul 9, 2026
GPT-5.6 went public in the middle of the show after a government-gated preview. Breaking on air: Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 with the first paid Meta API, Reve 2.1 taking #2 on the Arena, and Anthropic's Fable limit reset. Plus GPT-Live full-duplex demos and the four-model Infographic Arena.
ThursdAI - July 2 - LIVE from AI Engineer World's Fair 🎪 Long LIVE
Broadcasting live for 2.5 hours from the middle of the Moscone expo floor: Fable 5 is back, a ThursdAI-record 9 guests, local.ai announced, GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna), Darya's on-air debut, and Swyx closes the show.
GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked
A chill summer week where open source did not chill: GLM 5.2 turned into a real DeepSeek moment, Sakana Fugu wrapped frontier agents behind one API, Claude moved into Slack, and Sean Grove explained the 10,000-agent-hour company.
Fable Got Banned, Open Source Delivered: GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 & SpaceX Buys Cursor - June 18
GLM‑5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code filled the Fable-shaped hole, while Cursor sold for $60B, W&B launched HiveMind, HumanLayer drew a line against code slop, and Midjourney casually walked into medical hardware.
📅 ThursdAI - Jun 11, 2026 - Fable & Mythos 5 are here, Anthropic gets caught sandbagging (then reverses), Siri AI finally works!? and we got live-translated on air
Anthropic ships its first public Mythos-class model (and gets caught silently degrading it for ML research). Plus FrontierCode, WWDC's Gemini-powered Siri, DiffusionGemma at 1000 tok/s, and a packed guest lineup.
📅 ThursdAI - Jun 4 - NVIDIA drops Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B open), Microsoft becomes a frontier lab, Ideogram 4 goes open, Agent Arena & more
From CoreWeave: This week was kind of nuts, tons of new OpenSource goodness, 3 guests on the show (Arena, Nous Research and NVIDIA) and image gen SOTA models racing to the top.
📅 May 28 - Opus 4.8 ships mid-show, the Pope writes 42K words on AI, 11labs dubs the world and DeepSwe breaks coding evals
From W&B by CoreWeave, this week started slow but as always, things release on a ThursdAI™! Opus 4.8 dropped mid-show, 11labs broke my brain with a new dubbing model, and so has Cartesia + Pope on AI
AI just cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody could solve — plus everything from Google I/O 26
From CoreWeave (W&B): A recap of Google IO 2026 with Logan Kilpatrick plus my highlights, Demis announces we're at the Foothills of the singularity, OpenAI Cracking Erdos Math and much more
ThursdAI - May 14 - TML Interaction Models, Musk v Altman Disclosures, CW Sandboxes & /goal Takes Over
From CoreWeave // W&B - A fairly "chill" week in AI, we all move away from OpenClaws, a crazy supply chain attack and how to defend, CW sanboxes, Must suing OpenAI and /goal is the new Ralph!
📅 ThursdAI - May 7 - Interviews with Sunil Pai, Sally Ann Omalley from AI Engineer Europe
Hey, I'm off this week (got married 🎉) so instead of a regular cadence newsletter I'm sharing my offline interviews with amazingly interesting people I met at AI Engineer Europe in London last week
📅 ThursdAI - Apr 30 - DeepSeek V4 (1.6T MoE), Cursor SDK Wins WolfBench, Mayo's REDMOD Saves Lives, Stripe Gives Agents a Wallet & more
From Weights & Biases - one last one for April, with incredible AI news, a monthly recap and Max from Pangram as a guest + I have OpenClaw a credit card!
📅 Apr 23: OpenAI's Week: GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2, Codex CUA + Chronicle, + Claude Design, Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6-27B
From Weights & Biases, what an intense week, that's fully dominated by OpenAI, a new top LLM (5.5), a new top Image Gen (imagev2) and tons of codex releases + Claude Design and a bunch of open source
April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews
From Weights & Biases - 3 interviews, 3 Breaking news (Opus 4.7 and Codex Computer use) + a discussion about ZL Continuums among the cohosts. Let us catch you up!
The Zechner-Lopopolo Continuum: AI Engineers can't agree on whether we should still be looking at code
Alex’s recap of the best AI conference’s first European debut + a few BTS reflections from the speaker room, hallway track and podcasting from London
📅 ThursdAI LIVE from London - Claude Mythos, Codex Resets, Muse Spark & More | w/ Swyx and friends from OpenAI, Deepmind, LMArena and OpenClaw
From London (sponsored by Weights & Biases) - if you haven't made it to AI Engineer Europe, here's a recap for you with 5 interviews and a bunch of news about Anthropic, Meta & more
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2026
- 📅 ThursdAI - Apr 2 - Gemma 4 is the new LLama, Claude Code Leak, OpenAI raises $122B & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- AGI is here? Jensen says yes, ARC-AGI-3 says AI scores under 1%🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Opus 1M, Jensen declares OpenClaw as the new Linux, GPT 5.4 Mini & Nano, Minimax 2.7, Composer 2 & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI — 3rd BirthdAI: Singularity Updates Begin with Auto Researcher, Uploaded Brains, OpenClaw Mania & NVIDIA's $26B Bet on Open Source🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Mar 5 - GPT 5.4 is here, Anthropic supply chain risk, Qwen 3.5 small & leadership drama, wolfbench & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - Approaching singularity🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 Gemini 3.1 Pro drops live — Sonnet 4.6, Qwen 3.5, Grok 4 20 & Code Factory🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the price🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Feb 5 - Opus 4.6 was #1 for ONE HOUR before GPT 5.3 Codex, Voxtral transcription, Codex app, Qwen Coder Next & the Agentic Internet🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 29 - Genie3 is here, Clawd rebrands, Kimi K2.5 surprises, Chrome goes agentic & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 22 - Clawdbot deep dive, GLM 4.7 Flash, Anthropic constitution + 3 new TSS models🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 15 - Agent Skills Deep Dive, GPT 5.2 Codex Builds a Browser, Claude Cowork for the Masses, and the Era of Personalized AI!🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Jan 8 - Vera Rubin's 5x Jump, Ralph Wiggum Goes Viral, GPT Health Launches & XAI Raises $20B Mid-Controversy🎙️ Transcript
2025
- 🔥 Someone Trained an LLM in Space This Year (And 50 Other Things You Missed)- ThursdAI yearly recap is here!
- 📆 ThursdAI - Dec 18 - Gemini 3 Flash, Grok Voice, ChatGPT Appstore, Image 1.5 & GPT 5.2 Codex, Meta Sam Audio & more AI news
- 📆 ThursdAI - Dec 4, 2025 - DeepSeek V3.2 Goes Gold Medal, Mistral Returns to Apache 2.0, OpenAI Hits Code Red, and US-Trained MOEs Are Back!
- 🦃 ThursdAI - Thanksgiving special 25’ - Claude 4.5, Flux 2 & Z-image vs 🍌, MCP gets Apps + New DeepSeek!?
- 📆 ThursdAI - the week that changed the AI landscape forever - Gemini 3, GPT codex max, Grok 4.1 & fast, SAM3 and Nano Banana Pro
- GPT‑5.1’s New Brain, Grok’s 2M Context, Omnilingual ASR, and a Terminal UI That Sparks Joy
- 📆 ThursdAI - Nov 6, 2025 - Kimi’s 1T Thinking Model Shakes Up Open Source, Apple Bets $1B on Gemini for Siri, and Amazon vs. Perplexity!🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Oct 30 - From ASI in a Decade to Home Humanoids: MiniMax M2's Speed Demon, OpenAI's Bold Roadmap, and 2026 Robot Revolution🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 23: The AI Browser Wars Begin, DeepSeek's OCR Mind-Trick & The Race to Real-Time Video🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 16 - VEO3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT adult mode, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX spark, Wordlabs RTFM & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Qwen‑mas Strikes Again: VL/Omni Blitz + Grok‑4 Fast + Nvidia’s $100B Bet🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Sep 18 - Gpt-5-Codex, OAI wins ICPC, Reve, ARC-AGI SOTA Interview, Meta AI Glasses & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Sep 4 - Codex Rises, Anthropic Raises $13B, Nous plays poker, Apple speeds up VLMs & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jul 3 - ERNIE 4.5, Hunyuan A13B, MAI-DxO outperforms doctors, RL beats SWE bench, Zuck MSL hiring spree & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - May 29 - DeepSeek R1 Resurfaces, VEO3 viral moments, Opus 4 a week after, Flux Kontext image editing & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - May 15 - Genocidal Grok, ChatGPT 4.1, AM-Thinking, Distributed LLM training & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - May 1- Qwen 3, Phi-4, OpenAI glazegate, RIP GPT4, LlamaCon, LMArena in hot water & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Apr 23rd - GPT Image & Grok APIs Drop, OpenAI ❤️ OS? Dia's Wild TTS & Building Better Agents!🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Apr 17 - OpenAI o3 is SOTA llm, o4-mini, 4.1, mini, nano, G. Flash 2.5, Kling 2.0 and 🐬 Gemma? Huge AI week + A2A protocol interview🎙️ Transcript
- 💯 ThursdAI - 100th episode 🎉 - Meta LLama 4, Google tons of updates, ChatGPT memory, WandB MCP manifesto & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Apr 3rd - OpenAI Goes Open?! Gemini Crushes Math, AI Actors Go Hollywood & MCP, Now with Observability?🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Mar 27 - Gemini 2.5 Takes #1, OpenAI Goes Ghibli, DeepSeek V3 Roars, Qwen Omni, Wandb MCP & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Mar 20 - OpenAIs new voices, Mistral Small, NVIDIA GTC recap & Nemotron, new SOTA vision from Roboflow & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI Turns Two! 🎉 Gemma 3, Gemini Native Image, new OpenAI tools, tons of open source & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- ThursdAI - Mar 6, 2025 - Alibaba's R1 Killer QwQ, Exclusive Google AI Mode Chat, and MCP fever sweeping the community!🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 Feb 27, 2025 - GPT-4.5 Drops TODAY?!, Claude 3.7 Coding BEAST, Grok's Unhinged Voice, Humanlike AI voices & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Feb 20 - Live from AI Eng in NY - Grok 3, Unified Reasoners, Anthropic's Bombshell, and Robot Handoffs!🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 30 - DeepSeek vs. Nasdaq, R1 everywhere, Qwen Max & Video, Open Source SUNO, Goose agents & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
- 📆 ThursdAI - Jan 23, 2025 - 🔥 DeepSeek R1 is HERE, OpenAI Operator Agent, $500B AI manhattan project, ByteDance UI-Tars, new Gemini Thinker & more AI news🎙️ Transcript
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