Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
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Host @ ThursdAI.news pod
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AI Evangelist @ Weights & Biases
CEO @ Targum.Video
Opinions my own
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Honestly didn’t think we’d make it to 100 episodes of @thursdai_pod — but here we are.
From context windows jumping from 4K → 10M, to protocols, to chaotic Breaking News and model drops… this week had it all.
Perfect way to celebrate.
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From context windows jumping from 4K → 10M, to protocols, to chaotic Breaking News and model drops… this week had it all.
Perfect way to celebrate.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
📆 ThursdAI pod up for Oct 13 - Welcome to the AI browser wars!
We did a deep dive into Atlas and Edge Copilot, chatted with @pk_iv about browser agents auth and their @1Password integration, and with @kwindla about real time lipsync from @DecartAI
We did a deep dive into Atlas and Edge Copilot, chatted with @pk_iv about browser agents auth and their @1Password integration, and with @kwindla about real time lipsync from @DecartAI
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
📆 ThursdAI pod up for Oct 13 - Welcome to the AI browser wars!
We did a deep dive into Atlas and Edge Copilot, chatted with @pk_iv about browser agents auth and their @1Password integration, and with @kwindla about real time lipsync from @DecartAI
We did a deep dive into Atlas and Edge Copilot, chatted with @pk_iv about browser agents auth and their @1Password integration, and with @kwindla about real time lipsync from @DecartAI
POD UP! A fresh ThursdAI for Oct-16 with tons of content! We had 4 great interviews, PM for VEO3.1 (Jessica), @swyx with SWE Grep breaking news, @corbtt talked to us about RL and @sqs about ad powered free coding agents!
👉 thursdai.news/oct-16 👈
👉 thursdai.news/oct-16 👈
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
POD UP! A fresh ThursdAI for Oct-16 with tons of content! We had 4 great interviews, PM for VEO3.1 (Jessica), @swyx with SWE Grep breaking news, @corbtt talked to us about RL and @sqs about ad powered free coding agents!
👉 thursdai.news/oct-16 👈
👉 thursdai.news/oct-16 👈
POD UP: Covering my 3rd @OpenAIDevs Day in a row, and this one includes a few questions from me to @sama and @gdb from an exclusive fireside chat + a full breakdown of what they ⛴️, interview with @pvncher, Samsungs 7M TRM & building agents with AgentKit, Sora vs Grok Imagine & much much more!
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October 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
POD UP: Covering my 3rd @OpenAIDevs Day in a row, and this one includes a few questions from me to @sama and @gdb from an exclusive fireside chat + a full breakdown of what they ⛴️, interview with @pvncher, Samsungs 7M TRM & building agents with AgentKit, Sora vs Grok Imagine & much much more!
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I don't remember when I had so much fun on the stream! This week on @thursdai_pod we started an invite chain for SORA2 + shared tips and tricks, covered the product and the AI aspects!
We also covered Claude 4.5, @Zai_org GLM, the DSA innovation from @deepseek_ai and much more!
We also covered Claude 4.5, @Zai_org GLM, the DSA innovation from @deepseek_ai and much more!
October 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I don't remember when I had so much fun on the stream! This week on @thursdai_pod we started an invite chain for SORA2 + shared tips and tricks, covered the product and the AI aspects!
We also covered Claude 4.5, @Zai_org GLM, the DSA innovation from @deepseek_ai and much more!
We also covered Claude 4.5, @Zai_org GLM, the DSA innovation from @deepseek_ai and much more!
Sora2 from @openai released just 2 days ago, and people are creating and remixing incredible things.
The top video with 2.2K likes is a selfie video of Jesus during the last supper, but it only starts there. Sora allows folks to remix any video by adding their own prompt.
The top video with 2.2K likes is a selfie video of Jesus during the last supper, but it only starts there. Sora allows folks to remix any video by adding their own prompt.
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sora2 from @openai released just 2 days ago, and people are creating and remixing incredible things.
The top video with 2.2K likes is a selfie video of Jesus during the last supper, but it only starts there. Sora allows folks to remix any video by adding their own prompt.
The top video with 2.2K likes is a selfie video of Jesus during the last supper, but it only starts there. Sora allows folks to remix any video by adding their own prompt.
Very welcome addition, the newsletter website has support for AB testing titles! Very interesting that the title that got the most opens for my last @thursdai_pod was the one with the 📆 emoji but without the date + a little bit of a clickbaity title 🤔
Will keep testing 🤔
Will keep testing 🤔
September 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Very welcome addition, the newsletter website has support for AB testing titles! Very interesting that the title that got the most opens for my last @thursdai_pod was the one with the 📆 emoji but without the date + a little bit of a clickbaity title 🤔
Will keep testing 🤔
Will keep testing 🤔
Holy Sh*T - I swear to god the weeks are getting denser!
Somehow we still manage to squeeze the news about NVIDIA $100B, OpenAI Pulse, @Alibaba_Qwen total OSS domination, new @Kling_ai @SunoMusic V5, new evals and benches and a LOT more in under 1.5 hours of @thursdai_pod 👇
Somehow we still manage to squeeze the news about NVIDIA $100B, OpenAI Pulse, @Alibaba_Qwen total OSS domination, new @Kling_ai @SunoMusic V5, new evals and benches and a LOT more in under 1.5 hours of @thursdai_pod 👇
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Holy Sh*T - I swear to god the weeks are getting denser!
Somehow we still manage to squeeze the news about NVIDIA $100B, OpenAI Pulse, @Alibaba_Qwen total OSS domination, new @Kling_ai @SunoMusic V5, new evals and benches and a LOT more in under 1.5 hours of @thursdai_pod 👇
Somehow we still manage to squeeze the news about NVIDIA $100B, OpenAI Pulse, @Alibaba_Qwen total OSS domination, new @Kling_ai @SunoMusic V5, new evals and benches and a LOT more in under 1.5 hours of @thursdai_pod 👇
These weeks are getting denser and denser!
We covered @openai Codex, ICPC updates and Usage paper, @Meta display glasses, @reve incredible UI and Model, @LumaLabsAI HDR Ray3, chatted with @jerber888 about @arcprize SOTA with Grok, @theworldlabs Marble and SO MUCH MORE 👇
We covered @openai Codex, ICPC updates and Usage paper, @Meta display glasses, @reve incredible UI and Model, @LumaLabsAI HDR Ray3, chatted with @jerber888 about @arcprize SOTA with Grok, @theworldlabs Marble and SO MUCH MORE 👇
September 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
These weeks are getting denser and denser!
We covered @openai Codex, ICPC updates and Usage paper, @Meta display glasses, @reve incredible UI and Model, @LumaLabsAI HDR Ray3, chatted with @jerber888 about @arcprize SOTA with Grok, @theworldlabs Marble and SO MUCH MORE 👇
We covered @openai Codex, ICPC updates and Usage paper, @Meta display glasses, @reve incredible UI and Model, @LumaLabsAI HDR Ray3, chatted with @jerber888 about @arcprize SOTA with Grok, @theworldlabs Marble and SO MUCH MORE 👇
Wohoo! Made it! Edited this @thursdai_pod episode across 2 states, in ubers, airplane and with 3% battery - it's ready on time on Thursday!
We covered a LOT of ground, so this one is worth watching as well as reading. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, tuned in, shared and open sourced their
We covered a LOT of ground, so this one is worth watching as well as reading. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, tuned in, shared and open sourced their
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Wohoo! Made it! Edited this @thursdai_pod episode across 2 states, in ubers, airplane and with 3% battery - it's ready on time on Thursday!
We covered a LOT of ground, so this one is worth watching as well as reading. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, tuned in, shared and open sourced their
We covered a LOT of ground, so this one is worth watching as well as reading. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, tuned in, shared and open sourced their
Reposted by Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
My team ran benchmarks using realistic LLM training workloads (llama 70B). CoreWeave infra is the fastest and most stable in the industry. Large distributed jobs survive longer w/o interruptions and recover from faults orders of magnitude faster, reducing wall time, GPU hours, and $$ to train.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My team ran benchmarks using realistic LLM training workloads (llama 70B). CoreWeave infra is the fastest and most stable in the industry. Large distributed jobs survive longer w/o interruptions and recover from faults orders of magnitude faster, reducing wall time, GPU hours, and $$ to train.
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Wohoo, I'm back in the studio today, and what a great @thursdai_pod today!
We had a lot of fun talking about Codex, Hermes, @OpenPipeAI acq, Antropic nerfing Claude, Gemma Embeddings and a lot more!
Feels so good to be back! Links in the next post (Until Nikita fixes the links thing)
We had a lot of fun talking about Codex, Hermes, @OpenPipeAI acq, Antropic nerfing Claude, Gemma Embeddings and a lot more!
Feels so good to be back! Links in the next post (Until Nikita fixes the links thing)
September 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Wohoo, I'm back in the studio today, and what a great @thursdai_pod today!
We had a lot of fun talking about Codex, Hermes, @OpenPipeAI acq, Antropic nerfing Claude, Gemma Embeddings and a lot more!
Feels so good to be back! Links in the next post (Until Nikita fixes the links thing)
We had a lot of fun talking about Codex, Hermes, @OpenPipeAI acq, Antropic nerfing Claude, Gemma Embeddings and a lot more!
Feels so good to be back! Links in the next post (Until Nikita fixes the links thing)
Quick one this week, we had a quiet-ish week until DeepSeek dropped V3.1 (which we covered) + a lot of new image editing models, both open source ones and .. 🍌
Enjoy this episode if you didn't tune in live 👏 👇
Enjoy this episode if you didn't tune in live 👏 👇
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Quick one this week, we had a quiet-ish week until DeepSeek dropped V3.1 (which we covered) + a lot of new image editing models, both open source ones and .. 🍌
Enjoy this episode if you didn't tune in live 👏 👇
Enjoy this episode if you didn't tune in live 👏 👇
Phew, another @thursdai_pod dropped. This week was a bit more "chill" and yet we still had a LOT to talk about, 5 open source models (with breaking news), 2 open source world models + everyone spent a week with GPT-5 and we had thoughts! 👇
August 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Phew, another @thursdai_pod dropped. This week was a bit more "chill" and yet we still had a LOT to talk about, 5 open source models (with breaking news), 2 open source world models + everyone spent a week with GPT-5 and we had thoughts! 👇
WHAT A SHOW! Folks, just sent the last @thursdai_pod and it's a "must not miss" episode!
We had over 20K folks tune in to our livestreams today & yesterday and covered @xai Grok-4 (w/ controversies), @huggingface foray into robotics, had breaking news from @LiquidAI_ @RekaAILabs
check it out 👇
We had over 20K folks tune in to our livestreams today & yesterday and covered @xai Grok-4 (w/ controversies), @huggingface foray into robotics, had breaking news from @LiquidAI_ @RekaAILabs
check it out 👇
July 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
WHAT A SHOW! Folks, just sent the last @thursdai_pod and it's a "must not miss" episode!
We had over 20K folks tune in to our livestreams today & yesterday and covered @xai Grok-4 (w/ controversies), @huggingface foray into robotics, had breaking news from @LiquidAI_ @RekaAILabs
check it out 👇
We had over 20K folks tune in to our livestreams today & yesterday and covered @xai Grok-4 (w/ controversies), @huggingface foray into robotics, had breaking news from @LiquidAI_ @RekaAILabs
check it out 👇
🎙️ New @thursdAI POD - June 19 - we talked with @pankaj about @yupp_ai , reviewed 3 new video models from @Hailuo_AI ByteDance and @midjourney and covered a lot more AI
What a great week for AI and a great conversation with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten @Yampeleg & @ldjconfirmed
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What a great week for AI and a great conversation with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten @Yampeleg & @ldjconfirmed
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June 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🎙️ New @thursdAI POD - June 19 - we talked with @pankaj about @yupp_ai , reviewed 3 new video models from @Hailuo_AI ByteDance and @midjourney and covered a lot more AI
What a great week for AI and a great conversation with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten @Yampeleg & @ldjconfirmed
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What a great week for AI and a great conversation with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten @Yampeleg & @ldjconfirmed
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Had an absolute blast on @thursdai_pod today! Energy was flowing, we discussed just an incredible amount of news, while also covering 2 guests @pvncher (RepoPrompt) and my friend @Stefania_druga who helped cover @aiDotEngineer summit, and her incredible science copilots! 👇
June 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Had an absolute blast on @thursdai_pod today! Energy was flowing, we discussed just an incredible amount of news, while also covering 2 guests @pvncher (RepoPrompt) and my friend @Stefania_druga who helped cover @aiDotEngineer summit, and her incredible science copilots! 👇
This week on the pod! Live from VEGAS, we chatted with @LinusEkenstam and @charliebholtz about "a week after Opus and VEO3", Analyzed breaking news from Deepseek with @Yampeleg and @nisten and geeked out on AI Avatars with @WolframRvnwlf
May 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This week on the pod! Live from VEGAS, we chatted with @LinusEkenstam and @charliebholtz about "a week after Opus and VEO3", Analyzed breaking news from Deepseek with @Yampeleg and @nisten and geeked out on AI Avatars with @WolframRvnwlf
Very much looking forward to this keynote presentation (alongside @LinusEkenstam @skirano @jerrod_lew @nkwrnr @dsiroker @bindureddy and others!)
While preparing for this keynote, I supercharged my processes with a few new tools and AI flows.
While preparing for this keynote, I supercharged my processes with a few new tools and AI flows.
May 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Very much looking forward to this keynote presentation (alongside @LinusEkenstam @skirano @jerrod_lew @nkwrnr @dsiroker @bindureddy and others!)
While preparing for this keynote, I supercharged my processes with a few new tools and AI flows.
While preparing for this keynote, I supercharged my processes with a few new tools and AI flows.
x is dead? what's going on?
May 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
x is dead? what's going on?
This week on ThursdAI - Gemini 2.5 IO edition, why we didn't love Mistral's new release, @WolframRvnwlf Qwen evals (it's good model ser) and a reality breaking AI Avatar tech from @HeyGen_Official that you can try today! (I gotchu all 1 month free code!)
May 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This week on ThursdAI - Gemini 2.5 IO edition, why we didn't love Mistral's new release, @WolframRvnwlf Qwen evals (it's good model ser) and a reality breaking AI Avatar tech from @HeyGen_Official that you can try today! (I gotchu all 1 month free code!)
Holy Shit! The AI Avatar space is heating up!
@HeyGen_Official just added Avatar IV which only takes a pic and it looks ... REALLY good. Almost too good TBH.
Face, emotions, hand movements, perfect lipsync, all from 1 photo!
A new SOTA for sure!
(A few comparisons in thread)
@HeyGen_Official just added Avatar IV which only takes a pic and it looks ... REALLY good. Almost too good TBH.
Face, emotions, hand movements, perfect lipsync, all from 1 photo!
A new SOTA for sure!
(A few comparisons in thread)
May 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Holy Shit! The AI Avatar space is heating up!
@HeyGen_Official just added Avatar IV which only takes a pic and it looks ... REALLY good. Almost too good TBH.
Face, emotions, hand movements, perfect lipsync, all from 1 photo!
A new SOTA for sure!
(A few comparisons in thread)
@HeyGen_Official just added Avatar IV which only takes a pic and it looks ... REALLY good. Almost too good TBH.
Face, emotions, hand movements, perfect lipsync, all from 1 photo!
A new SOTA for sure!
(A few comparisons in thread)
BREAKING:
Microsoft as always silently drops Phi models and now they've added reasoning to them.
Two models: Phi-4-reasoning 14B and Phi-4 Reasoning Plus (trained to output longer thoughts)
Achieving a great 78 at AIME with 14B params is not bad!
x.com/suriyagnskr...
Microsoft as always silently drops Phi models and now they've added reasoning to them.
Two models: Phi-4-reasoning 14B and Phi-4 Reasoning Plus (trained to output longer thoughts)
Achieving a great 78 at AIME with 14B params is not bad!
x.com/suriyagnskr...
May 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
BREAKING:
Microsoft as always silently drops Phi models and now they've added reasoning to them.
Two models: Phi-4-reasoning 14B and Phi-4 Reasoning Plus (trained to output longer thoughts)
Achieving a great 78 at AIME with 14B params is not bad!
x.com/suriyagnskr...
Microsoft as always silently drops Phi models and now they've added reasoning to them.
Two models: Phi-4-reasoning 14B and Phi-4 Reasoning Plus (trained to output longer thoughts)
Achieving a great 78 at AIME with 14B params is not bad!
x.com/suriyagnskr...
Phew what an intense AI week folks! It's been getting crazier! Here's mostly human written ~3700 words and links from everything that happened this week + an edited version of @thursdai_pod just landed wherever you get yours!
Links as always in... first comment
Links as always in... first comment
April 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Phew what an intense AI week folks! It's been getting crazier! Here's mostly human written ~3700 words and links from everything that happened this week + an edited version of @thursdai_pod just landed wherever you get yours!
Links as always in... first comment
Links as always in... first comment
🚨 BREAKING: Google's response to o4-mini and 4.1-mini is here in one model!
Gemini 2.5 Flash is announced in preview, and this one model can go from very cheap and fast, to a more expensive with reasoning, automatically and manually!
Here's everything you need to know 👇
Gemini 2.5 Flash is announced in preview, and this one model can go from very cheap and fast, to a more expensive with reasoning, automatically and manually!
Here's everything you need to know 👇
April 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Google's response to o4-mini and 4.1-mini is here in one model!
Gemini 2.5 Flash is announced in preview, and this one model can go from very cheap and fast, to a more expensive with reasoning, automatically and manually!
Here's everything you need to know 👇
Gemini 2.5 Flash is announced in preview, and this one model can go from very cheap and fast, to a more expensive with reasoning, automatically and manually!
Here's everything you need to know 👇