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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
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Host @ ThursdAI.news pod
AI Evangelist @ Weights & Biases
CEO @ Targum.Video

Opinions my own
And here's the edited video, as I've started to notice folks like videos more!
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ThursdAI 🎃 Oct 30 halloween special: MiniMax M2, OpenAI’s ASI Roadmap, 1X NEO, Cursor 2.0 & Sonic-3
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This week's ThursdAI is a spooky special packed with mind-blowing updates. We're joined by Skyler Miao from Minimax to break down the new...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As always, the episode is available everywhere you get your podcasts

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📆 ThursdAI - Oct 30, 2025 - MiniMax M2 Shocks Open Source, OpenAI Charts Path to ASI, and Humanoid Robots Come Home 🎃
From Weights & Biases, another crazy AI week, humanoids in your home, MiniMax 2 interview w/ Skyler, Cartesia interview with Arjun, OpenAIs new structure and ASI within a decade claims & more AI news
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October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
model that starts speaking in under 50ms!

+ Humanoid debates, Sora character Cameos, interactive video with @odysseyml and much much more!
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chatted with @SkylerMiao7 about @MiniMax__AI M2, that's top of the OSS charts, then covered the crazy OpenAI livestream and the bombshells that @sama and @merettm dropped (ASI < 10y) + covered news from @cognition and @cursor_ai and finally got the download from @jundesai about @cartesia_ai Sonic 3
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
@nisten and @Yampeleg got excited about Claude code on the web, and @ldjconfirmed helped break down the @deepseek_ai OCR incredible release!
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
As always, huge thanks to @nisten @Yampeleg @WolframRvnwlf and @ldjconfirmed for being my awesome panelists with a lot of insight, and to @weights_biases for the support of the pod 🫡

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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week
Tech News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Every ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, ai engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on twitter spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world o…
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October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
We also covered a LOT of ground, Google's new cancer fighting open source model, Nvidia's DGX, Anthropics new skills and Haiku 4.5 and a bunch more!

Newsletter is 🔥 as well with all the links you need to stay up to date this week!
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
As always, the show is cut into a podcast and a newsletter:

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And for the full show notes and links visit

👉 thursdai.news/oct-9 👈
📆 Oct 9, 2025 — Dev Day’s Agent Era, Samsung’s 7M TRM Shock, Ling‑1T at 1T, Grok Video goes NSFW, and Serverless RL arrives
From Weights & Biases, our third OpenAI Dev Day recap, AgentKit, AppsSDK, new APIs + an intimate interview with Sam Altman & Greg Brockman
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October 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
But there's also a decent writeup + all sources and links as usual here:
As always, the show is cut into a podcast and a newsletter:

🔗 on Spotify: thursdai.news/spotify

🔗 Apple: thursdai.news/apple

👉 thursdai.news/oct-2 👈
Sora 2 Crushes TikTok, Claude 4.5 Fizzles, DeepSeek innovates attention and GLM 4.6 Takes the Crown! 🔥
From Weights & Biases: inside Sora 2’s TikTok‑style launch, Sonnet 4.5’s agent gains (and pains), and DeepSeek’s DSA breakthrough—plus GLM‑4.6 and Kandinsky 5.0
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October 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This was such a visual episode that I had to edit the podcast in video form, unfortunately the newsletter website doesn't syndicate video podcasts, so it's also on YT here:
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📆 ThursdAI - Oct 2 - Sora 2 the new TikTok? Claude 4.5 disappoints, GLM 4.6 shines & other AI news
Welcome to ThursdAI on October 2nd! Join Alex Volkov as he dives into the most exciting week in AI yet. This episode covers the groundbreaking release of Sor...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Join our show and don't miss your chance to get in on the future of AI social media!

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October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Here are the best remixes I saw (recorded for those of you who don't have access)

I'll be raffling a few codes tomorrow on @thursdai_pod so hit like and follow me and maybe you'll get in, I'll also be sharing how folks with an Android phone can get in!
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
As always, the show is cut into a podcast and a newsletter (which takes longer and longer 😅 Do subscribe!)

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And for the full show notes

👉 thursdai.news/sep-25 👈
📆 ThursdAI - Sep 25 - Grok Fast, OAI/NVIDIA $100B deal, Qwen VL/Omni, Wanimate, Kling 4.5, Moondream3 w/ Vik & more AI news
From Weights & Biases, a super dense AI week, with Qwen models dominating OSS, Wan models dominating video & $100B NVIDIA investment into OpenAI + interview with Vik @ Moondream
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September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We also had the pleasure of having @vikhyatk and Jay (CEO) or @moondreamai tell us what's so special about Moondream-3 preview!

We also saluted "scale is all you need"

Tons of fun this week, check it out!
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM