ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week

Holy SH*T, These two words have been said on this episode multiple times, way more than ever before I want to say, and it's because we got 2 incredible exciting breaking news announcements in a very very short amount of time (in the span of 3 hours) and the OpenAI announcement came as we were recording the space, so you'll get to hear a live reaction of ours to this insanity. We also had 3 deep-di...

Hihi, this is Alex, from Weights & Biases, coming to you live, from Yosemite! Well, actually I’m writing these words from a fake virtual yosemite that appears above my kitchen counter as I’m not a Vision Pro user and I will force myself to work inside this thing and tell you if it’s worth it. I will also be on the lookout on anything AI related in this new spatial computing paradigm, like THIS for...

Hello hello everyone, welcome to another special episode (some podcasts call them just.. episodes I guess, but here you get AI news every ThurdsdAI, and on Sunday you get the deeper dives) BTW, I'm writing these words, looking at a 300 inch monitor that's hovering above my usual workstation in the Apple Vision Pro, and while this is an AI newsletter, and I've yet to find a connecting link (there's...

TL;DR of all topics covered + Show notes * Open Source LLMs * Meta releases Code-LLama 70B - 67.8% HumanEval ( Announcement , HF instruct version , HuggingChat, Perplexity) * Together added function calling + JSON mode to Mixtral, Mistral and CodeLLama * RWKV (non transformer based) Eagle-7B - ( Announcement , Demo , Yam's Thread ) * Someone leaks Miqu, Mistral confirms it's an old version of thei...

Hey everyone, we have an exciting interview today with Maxime Labonne. Maxime is a senior Machine Learning Scientist at JPMorgan , the author of Hands on GNNs book and his own ML Blog , creator of LazyMergeKit (which we cover on the pod) and holds a PHD in Artificial Intelligence from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Maxime has been mentioned on ThursdAI a couple of times before, as he release...

What A SHOW folks, I almost don't want to write anything in the newsletter to MAKE you listen haha but I will I know many of you don't like listening to be babble. But if you chose one episode to listen to instead of just skimming the show-notes, make it this one. We've had 2 deep dives, one into the exciting world of multi-modalilty, we chatted with the creator of Moondream1, Vik and the co-found...

👋 Hey there, been quite a week, started slow and whoah, the last two days were jam-packed with news, I was able to barely keep up! But thankfully, the motto of ThursdAI is, we stay up to date so you don’t have to! We had a milestone, 1.1K listeners tuned into the live show recording, it’s quite the number, and I’m humbled to present the conversation and updates to that many people, if you’re read...

ThursdAI - Sunday special deep dive, interviews with Joao, and Jon, AI agent Crews and Bagel Merges. Happy Sunday dear reader, As you know by now, ThursdAI pod is not a standard interview based podcast, we don't focus on a 1:1 guest/host conversation, but from time to time we do! And this week I was very lucky to have one invited guest and one surprise guest, and I'm very happy to bring you both t...

Hey hey everyone, how are you this fine ThursdAI? 👋 I’m gud thanks for asking! I’m continuing my experiment of spilling the beans, and telling you about everything we talked about in advance, both on the pod and in the newsletter, so let me know if this is the right way to go or not, for the busy ones it seems that it is. If you don’t have an hour 15, here’s a short video recap of everything we c...

Here’s a TL;DR and show notes links * Open Source LLMs * New WizardCoder 33B V1.1 - 79% on HumanEval ( X , HF ) * Tekniums Hermes 2 on SOLAR 10.7B ( X , HF ) * Microsoft - E5 SOTA text embeddings w/ Mistral ( X , HF , Paper , Yams Thread ) * Big CO LLMs + APIs * Samsung is about to announce some AI stuff * OpenAI GPT store to come next week * Perplexity announces a $73.6 Series B round * Vision *...

Hey hey hey (no longer ho ho ho 🎄) hope you had a great Christmas! And you know that many AI folks have dropped tons of OpenSource AI goodies for Christmas, here’s quite a list of new things, including at least 3 new multi-modal models, a dataset and a paper/technical report from the current top model on HF leaderboard from Upstage. We also had the pleasure to interview the folks who released the...

Hey everyone, happy ThursdAI! As always, here's a list of things we covered this week, including show notes and links, to prepare you for the holidays. TL;DR of all topics covered: * Open Source AI * OpenChat-3.5-1210 - a top performing open source 7B model from OpenChat team beating GPT3.5 and Grok ( link , HF , Demo ) * LAION 5B dataset taken down due to CSAM allegations from Stanford ( link , f...

Wow what a week. I think I’ve reached to a level that I’m not phased by incredible weeks or days that happen in AI, but I… guess I still have much to learn! TL;DR of everything we covered (aka Show Notes) * Open Source LLMs * Mixtral MoE - 8X7B experts dropped with a magnet link again ( Announcement , HF , Try it ) * Mistral 0.2 instruct ( Announcement , HF ) * Upstage Solar 10B - Tops the HF lead...

ThursdAI December 7th TL;DR Greetins of the day everyone (as our panelist Akshay likes to sometimes say) and Happy first candle of Hannukah for those who celebrate! 🕎 I'm writing this newsletter from the back of an Waymo self driving car, in SF, as I'm here for just a few nights (again) to participate in the Open Source AI meetup, that was co-organized by Ollama and Nous Research, Alignment Labs...

🎶 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday chat GPT-eeeeeeee, happy birthday to you. Hey everyone, welcome to this special edition of ThursdAI where you're probably gonna have two emails and two podcast episodes today and you can choose which one you want to but we actually recorded both of them live it just they went a little long. ThursdAI - The only podcast that brings you...

ThursdAI TL;DR - November 23 TL;DR of all topics covered: * OpenAI Drama * Sam... there and back again. * Open Source LLMs * Intel finetuned Mistral and is on top of leaderboards with neural-chat-7B ( Thread , HF , Github ) * And trained on new Habana hardware! * Yi-34B Chat - 4-bit and 8-bit chat finetune for Yi-34 ( Card , Demo ) * Microsoft released Orca 2 - it's underwhelming ( Thread from Eri...

Hey yall, welcome to this special edition of ThursdAI. This is the first one that I'm sending in my new capacity as the AI Evangelist Weights & Biases (on the growth team) I made the announcement last week, but this week is my first official week at W&B, and oh boy... how humbled and excited I was to receive all the inspiring and supporting feedback from the community, friends, colleagues and fami...

Hey everyone, this is Alex Volkov 👋 This week was an incredibly packed with news, started strong on Sunday with x.ai GrŌk announcement, Monday with all the releases during OpenAI Dev Day, then topped of with Github Universe Copilot announcements, and to top it all of, we postponed the live recording to see what hu.ma.ne has in store for us as AI devices go (Finally announced Pin with all the feat...

ThursdAI November 2nd Hey everyone, welcome to yet another exciting ThursdAI. This week we have a special announcement, the co-host of and I will be hosting a shared X space live from Open AI Dev Day! Monday next week (and then will likely follow up with interviews, analysis and potentially a shared episode!) Make sure you set a reminder on X ( https://thursdai.news/next ) , we’re going to open th...

ThursdAI October 26th Timestamps and full transcript for your convinience ## [00:00:00] Intro and brief updates ## [00:02:00] Interview with Bo Weng, author of Jina Embeddings V2 ## [00:33:40] Hugging Face open sourcing a fast Text Embeddings ## [00:36:52] Data Provenance Initiative at dataprovenance.org ## [00:39:27] LocalLLama effort to compare 39 open source LLMs + ## [00:53:13] Gradio Intervie...

Hey friends, welcome to ThursdAI Oct - 19. Here’s everything we covered + a little deep dive after the TL;DR for those who like extra credit. ThursdAI - If you like staying up to date, join our community Also, here’s the reason why the newsletter is a bit delayed today, I played with Riffusion to try and get a cool song for ThursdAI 😂 ThursdAI October 19th TL;DR of all topics covered: * Open Sour...

A week of horror, an AI conference of contrasts Hi, this is Alex. In the podcast this week, you'll hear my conversation with Miguel, a new friend I made in AI.engineer event, and then a recap of the whole Ai.engineer event I had with Swyx after the end. This newsletter is a difficult one for me to write, honestly, I wanted to skip this one entirely, struggling to fit the current events into my pla...

Boy am I glad that not all AI weeks are like last week , where we had so much news and so many things happening that I was barely able to take a breath for the week! I am very excited to bring you this newsletter from San Fancisco this week, the AI mecca, the arena, the place where there are so many AI events and hack-a-thons that I don’t actually know how people get any work done! On that topic,...

[00:00:00] Intro and welcome everyone [00:00:52] GPT4 - Vision from OpenAI [00:05:06] Safety concern with GPT4-V [00:09:18] GPT4 can talk and listen as well [00:12:15] Apple rumors, on device inference, and Siri [00:17:01] OpenAI Voice Cloning Tech used in Spotify to translate podcasts [00:19:44] On the risks of Voice Cloning tech being open sourced [00:26:07] Alex statement on purpose of ThursdAI...

Hey dear ThursdAI friends, as always I’m very excited to bring you this edition of ThursdAI, September 21st, which is packed full of goodness updates, great conversations with experts, breaking AI news and not 1 but 2 interviews ThursdAI - hey, psst, if you got here from X, dont’ worry, I don’t spam, but def. subscribe, you’ll be the coolest most up to date AI person you know! TL;DR of all topics...