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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 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price, Meta Muse takes the App Store, and the Jev clones arrive | ThursdAI Sep 24
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September 17, 2026
TypeSafe’s Jev changes everything, Dario, Sam and Elon all agree on pacing frontier, and the rise of the AI Assistant for the masses | ThursdAI Sep 17
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September 10, 2026
OpenAI solves Navier-Stokes, Meta’s Muse a free AI agent that’s really good, DeepSeek V4.1 shrinks KV cache, and one doomer post causes OpenAI to consider pausing training + more AI news
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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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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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