Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain

The AI Files

For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.

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Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain

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Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

#55 - Jony and Sam, Take It Down Act, Microsoft Build announcements etc 23.05.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss new OpenAI acquisition of IO leading to Jony Ive designing physical devices as well as ChatGPT as well as new Take It Down Act to criminalize deepfake and non-consensual explicit images. We then delve into tons of Microsoft Build announcements across AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub and Azure.

#54 - Codex, GPT4.1, AlphaEvolve, SWE-1, Learning with ChatGPT, Risk management with AI etc 18.05.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Codex and GPT4.1 in ChatGPT from OpenAI, AlphaEvolve from Google for enhancing algorithms, SWE-1 models from Windsurf, paper on learning improvements with ChatGPT, use of AI to manage risks in complex projects etc

#53 - AI First Memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI announcements, Microsoft joins A2A etc 11.05.2025

Jaime and Shadab discuss AI First memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI for country & its data residency, Gemini implicit caching, AI in courtrooms, Microsoft joins A2A etc

#52 - Frontier Firms, Phi-4, Nova Premier, Claude Integrations etc 04.05.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss the Anthropic and Nvidia bickering over the chips export control, the emergence of Frontier Firms as per Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025 report, Claude Integrations, three Phi-4 Reasoning models, Nova Premier model etc

#51 - The Cheating App, Oscars accepts AI, GPT-image-1, Exec order on AI in education, Dx-GPT etc 26.04.2025

Jaime and Shadab discuss The Cheating App, Oscars accepts AI, GPT-image-1, Executive order on AI in education, Perplexity assistant, Dx-GPT for rare disease diagnosis etc

#50 - Personal AI Assistant, GPT 4.1, o3 and o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-4o transcribe & TTS etc 26.04.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab, discuss the AI Personal Assistant in Microsoft Copilot along with Computer Use Agent as well as bunch of models in GPT-4.1, o3 and o4-mini, GPT-4o transcribe and TTS from OpenAI, Gemini Flash 2.5 etc

Vibe Coding with Dan Giannone 18.04.2025

We hosted our guest Dan Giannone, a Sr Architect at Microsoft who explained Vibe Coding and showed us the live demo of Vibe Coding with a use case. Learn about it and get started with your own Vibe Coding journey.

#49 - Google CloudNxt AI announcements, Microsoft Copilot roadmap, Llama 4 herd & more 13.04.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about various announcements across Gemini models, media models, agentic AI etc at Google CloudNxt event. We also covered Meta Llama 4 herd of models and enhancements in Azure AI Foundry. We then talked about several new features in Microsoft Copilot taking shape and manifesting Mustafa Suleyman's vision of an AI Companion. And more in this episode.

#48 - Microsoft 50 Years, AI Skills Fest, Amazon Nova Act, Runway Labs Gen-4, FabCon updates & more 06.04.2025

This week, Jaime and Shadab talks about Microsoft's 50 years and Guinness record attempting AI Skills Fest of learning on April 8th in the celebration. We also cover launches of Amazon Nova Act and Runway Labs Gen-4 as well as several announcements from Microsoft Fabric Conference & more. Here is the link to register for AI Skills Fest https://register.aiskillsfest.microsoft.com/

#47 - GPT-4o image gen, MCP adoption, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Agents & Reasoning in Copilot platforms & more 30.03.2025

In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about MCP adoption by OpenAI and others, viral image generation in GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Researcher & Analyst in Copilot, Reasoning & Agents Flow in Copilot Studio, Phi-4 in use at Japan Airlines & more

#46 - Nvidia GTC launches, OpenAI Audio models, Mistral 3.1 Small & more 24.03.2025

This week, Shadab covered launches & announcements at Nividia's GTC conference, OpenAI's TTS and STT models, Mistral 3.1 small model, Stable Virtual Camera etc.

#45 - Future of coding, Gemini Robotics & ImageGen, OpenAI Responses API, Meta AI chips etc 15.03.2025

Jaime and I discussed nuances of future of coding in the light of Dario Amodei's comments on AI writing all of the code in 12 months. Google was pretty busy with launches as well in Gemma 3, native ImageGen in Gemini 2.0 Flash as well as Gemini Robotics models. We also covered OpenAI's Responses API, Microsoft's PTU Spillover and Meta AI Chips etc

#44 - Sesame AI, Superintelligence strategy, Dragon Copilot, Alibaba QwQ-32B, Nova etc 10.03.2025

In this episode, we showed Sesame AI's new voice assistant that is a rage. We also discussed new paper Superintelligence Strategy as well as Microsoft's Dragon Copilot, Alibaba's QwQ-32B reasoning model, Amazon's Nova plans, Mistral OCR, Vibe Coding and other news.

#43 - GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, Claude Code, Snowflake Cortex with AOAI, Fabric AI Skills etc 02.03.2025

In this episode, we have covered GPT 4.5, Deep Research demo in ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code, Snowflake Cortex integration with Azure OpenAI models, Microsoft Fabric AI Skills, Meta's ARIA Gen 2 glasses and more

#42 - Majorana-1, Grok-3, AI Foundry Lab, Mistral Saba, Humanoid Robot etc 23.02.2025

In this episode, we covered Majorana-1 quantum computing chip, xAI's latest Grok-3 models, Mistral's Saba model, Azure AI Foundry Lab, Humanoid Robot, Humane AI pin etc.

#41 - OpenAI roadmap, Anthropic's Economic Index, PTUs for Fine Tuned models, AI Summit etc 17.02.2025

In this episode, Shadab talks about OpenAI's directional roadmap, Anthropic's AI Economic Index, Provisioned Throughput for Fine Tuned Azure OpenAI models, Latent Labs, AI Summit etc

#40 - Deep Research, Gemini, Azure AI Agents, AI Earnings etc 09.02.2025

In this episode, we discussed OpenAI's new agentic feature Deep Reseach, new Gemini models, Go Live of Azure AI Agents service, recent Big Tech earnings related to Cloud and AI as well GPU demands and other news.

#39 - o3-mini, ChatGPT Gov, EU AI Act, Qwen 2.5 Max etc 01.02.2025

In this episode, we demoed & discussed o3-mini in detail as well as discussed Qwen 2.5 Max, ChatGPT Gov, EU AI Act and various other items for the week.   Show notes: NFL to trial AI and tennis-style 'Hawk-Eye' technology that could cut controversial calls and make key job obsolete | talkSPORT Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model | Qwen Alibaba releases AI model it...

DeepSeek Special - Jan 2025 31.01.2025

In this power-packed but short episode, we covered why is DeepSeek R1 viral, what did they achieve, where can you access and at what cost, how to use in Azure, the concerns and recommendations

#38 - Stargate, Operator, Citations, DeepSeek R1 etc 27.01.2025

In our latest episode, we explore the groundbreaking Stargate Project by OpenAI, the innovative Operator AI agent, the impressive DeepSeekR1 model, and Anthropic's new Citations feature. Tune in to discover how these advancements are shaping the future of AI and technology!   Announcing The Stargate Project | OpenAI Microsoft and OpenAI evolve partnership to drive the next phase of AI - The Offici...

#37 - Discussing the AI PC and Win11 Copilot with Michelle Wallig 26.01.2025

🌟 Welcome to The AI Files Podcast! 🌟 In this episode, we explore the future of AI-powered personal computing with special guest Michelle Wallig, former Microsoft CTO. Michelle shares insights on AI PCs, Windows 11 Co-Pilot, and the groundbreaking hardware innovations like Neural Processing Units (NPUs) driving next-gen computing. 🔍 What You'll Learn: How AI PCs are transforming productivity wit...

#36 - Azure AI Agent Service, ChatGPT Tasks, Nemotron, AI pricing etc 20.01.2025

In this episode, we discussed transformative impact of AI on application development with Microsoft's announcement of new CoreAI group, President Joe Biden's executive orders on AI, Nvidia's announcement of a groundbreaking personal AI supercomputer and Nemotron models, ChatGPT Tasks and the new pricing strategies for AI-integrated productivity packages by Microsoft and Google as well as more topi...

#35 - Policy Agentforce O3 Ray Ban v11 Gemini Flash Thinking 31.12.2024

In this episode, we delve into the latest advancements and news in the world of AI and technology. We start with President-elect Donald Trump's recent appointments to his administration's technology policy team, highlighting key figures like David Sacks, Michael Kratsios, Dr. Lynne Parker, and Bo Hines, who will play pivotal roles in shaping AI and cryptocurrency policies12345. Next, we explore Sa...

#34 - Sora, Real Time Vision, Phi 4, Gemini 2.0, Llama 3.3, ChatGPt in Apple Intelligence etc 15.12.2024

Sora shows up along with O1, Real Time Vision and other announcements at OpenAI's Shipmas event; Google impresses with project Mariner, Gemini 2.0, Jules etc; Microsoft launches Phi 4.0; Apple rolls out ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence; Meta releases Llama 3.3 model. Jaime Basilico and I covered these and other news in another action packed week of AI. Please check out our next episode 34!  

#33 - O1, PaliGemma 2, Nova, announcements from Ignite etc 07.12.2024

In this episode, we covered OpenAI's O-1, Chat GPT Pro, Google's PaliGemma 2, AWS Nova family of LLMs and a several AI announcements from Microsoft Ignite and a few other news 

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