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Alex Volkov

Host & Curator of ThursdAI

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March 2023
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Alex Volkov is the host and curator of ThursdAI and an AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases. Born on a Thursday (naturally), he has hosted the show every week since March 2023, growing it from a small X Space into one of the most-followed weekly AI news shows, joined live by the researchers, founders, and builders shaping the field.

Recent Episodes

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September 3, 2026
Welcome to AGI part 1 - Fable 5.1, Muse Spark beats Sol, 3 new world models blow our minds
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September 3, 2026
Sep 3 Part 2: Welcome to AGI - OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, 99% on Arc-AGI and incredible at computer use.
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August 27, 2026
NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4 Preview, Gemini Omni 1.1, and the Datacenter Debate w/ Andy Masley
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August 20, 2026
OpenAI pauses, Stripe buys OpenRouter, ZAI drops GLM 5.3, and 3 interviews including 1 breaking news, oh and does AI create Cancer Vaccines | ThursdAI Aug 20
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August 13, 2026
ThursdAI - Grok 4.6 & Grok Bot at the frontier, DeepSeek v4 Pro GA, Meta opens Muse Glimmer and promises spark, Gemini gives us 3.7 flash instead of Pro & more AI news
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August 6, 2026
ThursdAI - Aug 06 - Google shakeup, Details on OpenAI hack, 2 new agent harnesses, 4 video models (1 Open) and 3 guest segments
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July 30, 2026
ThursdAI - Jul 30 - Opus 5, Kimi K3, the big AI hack incident and outcome, pace the frontier letter & more AI news
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July 23, 2026
ThursdAI Special - OpenAI's Romain Huet on Codex's 5M users, GPT-5.6 & the Golden Age of AI Engineering
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July 16, 2026
ThursdAI - Jul 16 - Inkling 975B open weights, Kimi K3 at 2.8T, a 27B model on a phone & Codex hits 9M
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July 9, 2026
📅 ThursdAI - Jul 9, 2026 - GPT-5.6 launch day (Sol, Terra & Luna), Zuck returns with Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live demos, Grok 4.5 & The Infographic Arena
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Alex Volkov on ThursdAI Podcast

Alex Volkov is the host and curator of ThursdAI, the weekly AI news podcast, live every Thursday since March 2023. Browse all episodes, meet the guests and co-hosts, or subscribe on Substack to never miss an episode.

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