Mixture of Experts

Have open-source AI agents finally gone mainstream? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Marina Danilevsky and Aaron Baughman. First, we dive into Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), the open-source AI agent that’s sparked a buying frenzy of Mac minis. What makes this agent different? Next, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back with another essay, this time on A...

Is Claude Code having its ChatGPT moment? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Gabe Goodhart and Francesco Brenna to unpack the shifts happening in AI as 2026 kicks off. First, OpenAI confirms ads are coming to ChatGPT, raising questions about trust, economics and the future of AI product models. Next, Claude Code is exploding in popularity! Developers are discov...

Is your desktop ready for AI agents? In episode 90 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Volkmar Uhlig, Olivia Buzek and Mihai Criveti to break down Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch—bringing the power of Claude Code to everyday job tasks. Would you trust an AI agent to organize your files? Next, Apple announces a partnership with Google to power the next generation of Siri with Gemini...

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts What defined AI in 2025 and what’s coming in 2026? In this special year-end episode of Mixture of Experts , host Tim Hwang sits down with veteran panelists to review the biggest AI moments of 2025 and make bold predictions for the year ahead. Kaoutar El Maghraoui unpacks the AI hard...

What’s the future of AI code generation? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Olivia Buzek and Gabe Goodhart to debrief the biggest AI use-case of 2025: AI-powered software engineering. Claude Opus 4.5 solved a months-long optimization in under an hour but failed spectacularly at simple tasks. The barbell effect is real. Next, who's the architect—you or the model...

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Why did Disney pay OpenAI a billion dollars to use their characters? This week on Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang and experts Marina Danilevsky, Martin Keen and Kush Varshney analyze Disney's three-year OpenAI licensing deal, and what it means for IP owners, content creators and...

Should we care about GPT-5.2? This week on Mixture of Experts, we analyze the “code red” release of GPT-5.2 as OpenAI responds to Gemini 3. Are the constant model drops benefitting consumers? Next, Stanford released their Foundation Model Transparency Index, revealing a troubling trend that most labs are becoming less transparent. However, IBM Granite achieved a 95/100 score. Then, our experts dis...

Is open source winning the AI race? This week on Mixture of Experts, we analyze three major model releases that dropped in the final weeks of 2025: Mistral 3, DeepSeek-V3.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. Our experts discuss what makes each model unique—from Mistral’s multimodal capabilities to DeepSeek’s reasoning-first approach and Claude’s developer focus. Are there too many good models? Next, a provocati...

Will Black Friday 2025 be the breakout moment for agentic commerce? This week on Mixture of Experts, we're departing from our usual format for a Thanksgiving special focused entirely on AI agents. Host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Lauren McHugh Olende and Volkmar Uhlig to debate whether 2025 is truly the "year of agents." Our experts break down why consumer-facing agentic commerce still faces...

Does Gemini 3 live up to the hype? This week on Mixture of Experts, we analyze the release of Google’s Gemini 3 model. Next, OpenAI released a new benchmark about the impact of AI on the economy, GDPval. We debate AI automation and the job market. Then, we always talk AI agents, today we discuss some great innovations coming out of IBM Research and more. Finally, Anthropic disrupted an AI-led cybe...

Which model is better, GPT-5.1 or Kimi K2 Thinking? This week on Mixture of Experts, we have two new AI model releases: OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 and Moonshot AI’s new open-source reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking. We discuss user experience and personalization with AI tools and how open-source AI is changing the AI race. Finally, is Microsoft launching full “agentic users” for enterprise? Our experts disc...

"Would you trust a humanoid robot to unload your dishwasher? This week on Mixture of Experts, we revisit 1X NEO, a new humanoid robot, as it finally enters the home, seeking to automate tasks. How far are we from this reality? Next, Japan’s copyright dispute with Sora 2, we discuss how AI training, synthetic data and IP are all impacting AI models. Finally, are there too many AI alliances? Our exp...

It’s spooky week in AI! This week on our Halloween -edition of Mixture of Experts, we chat about Anthropic’s new billion-dollar TPU deal with Google Cloud. Plus, NVIDIA announces bringing data centers to outer space. Two different approaches to the future of AI compute that our experts discuss. Then, OpenAI released how they’re strengthening ChatGPT’s responses to sensitive conversations. We talk...

OpenAI is back and coming for search. This week on Mixture of Experts, we debrief ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new web browser and the impacts on search. Then, Andrej Karpathy is back with his pessimistic timeline to AGI. Later, we discuss DeepSeek-OCR. Finally, can your AI have brain rot? Join host Tim Hwang and panelists Aaron Baughman, Abraham Daniels and Martin Keen on this week’s Mixture of Expert...

Visit the Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content: https://ibm.biz/BdbYa4 What if Nvidia’s biggest advantage isn’t so big anymore? This week on Mixture of Experts, we break down the CAISI report on DeepSeek’s model risks, Reflection AI’s massive USD 2B fundraise for an open frontier lab, Oracle Cloud’s big bet on AMD chips over Nvidia and the wild story of a VC fund replacing analys...

The major AI players are not slowing down. In episode 76 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Olivia Buzek, Chris Hay and Mihai Criveti. First, we analyze OpenAI’s release of their new AgentKit. Then, IBM announced a partnership with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise-ready AI—we talk AI governance and the future of industry partnerships. Then, Chris Hay gives us his explanation of m...

What’s new in AI models? In episode 75 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Kate Soule and Kush Varshney to debrief a frenzy of model drops this week. IBM debuts Granite 4.0 hyper-efficient hybrid models, Claude Sonnet 4.5 delivers longer run times and sharper reasoning and Sora 2 takes vibe coding to the next level with vibe video production. Then, we dig into...

Why did NVIDIA invest USD100bn into OpenAI? In episode 74 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Sandi Besen, Mihai Criveti and Gabe Goodhart to talk about the AI chipmaker’s next big move. Next, we analyze Tongyi DeepResearch and get into a conversation around open source. Then, Google released a new agent protocol, AP2. After that, will AI take over? We debrief a new book, If Anyone...

What are the most common uses of ChatGPT? In episode 73 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Lauren McHugh, Martin Keen and Aaron Baughman to talk about a new report, How People Use ChatGPT. Next, Anthropic released an updated version of their economic index. Then, another paper, this one coming out of DeepMind on agent economies. How likely is this? Finally, how practical are AI wea...

Do we need more AI hallucinations? In episode 72 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Chris Hay and Skyler Speakman to talk about OpenAI’s paper, Why language models hallucinate. Next, in March 2025, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, predicted that AI will be writing 90% of code for software developers. How is that turning out? Then, is AI making the job market hell? Finally...

Are browsers the right entry point for AI tools? In episode 71 of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Mihai Criveti to talk about the verdict in the Google antitrust case and what it means for agentic AI. Next, as Anthropic raised $13 billion in a recent funding round, bringing its valuation to $183 billion, we discuss investment in AI st...

Subscribe for AI updates → https://ibm.biz/BdeKV4 Would you trust a 100-page prompt to do your taxes? In episode 70 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Chris Hay and Lauren McHugh to talk about KPMG’s 100-page prompt they used to build their agentic TaxBot. Next, we debrief on OpenAI’s teasing of selling infrastructure in the future. The image model generation goes b...

Is enterprise AI in danger? In episode 69 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Marina Danilevsky, Nathalie Baracaldo and Sandi Besen to debrief MIT’s report on gen AI pilots. Next, GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt? Then, we revisit the conversation about chain of thought (CoT) reasoning with our researchers. Are large reasoning models not thinking straight? Finally, Anthropic announc...

Would you sell Chrome for USD 34.5 billion dollars? In episode 68 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Sophie Kuijt and Shobhit Varshney for another packed week in AI. First, AI startup Perplexity puts out a bid for Google Chrome at over double their valuation. Why? Next, xAI released Grok Imagine and claims it will be the next Vine. Our experts analyze the future of...

Is GPT-5 better at code than Claude Opus 4.1? In this bonus episode of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Mihai Criveti and Chris Hay to analyze OpenAI’s new release. Our experts dove into the new models and compared them with their favorites. In today’s special episode, we dive into the news, impacts on the industry and even share a demo. Can GPT-5 outperform Claude Opus 4.1?...