Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
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Host @ ThursdAI.news pod
AI Evangelist @ Weights & Biases
CEO @ Targum.Video
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CEO @ Targum.Video
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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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🎙️ POD UP! holy shit what a week
Agent Skills finally clicked for me, Codex built a BROWSER in a week, Cowork is letting non-coders do agentic stuff, Gemini got creepily personal 🤯
We got @intellectronica on the show to break down skills and it was 🔥
Agent Skills finally clicked for me, Codex built a BROWSER in a week, Cowork is letting non-coders do agentic stuff, Gemini got creepily personal 🤯
We got @intellectronica on the show to break down skills and it was 🔥
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
🎙️ POD UP! holy shit what a week
Agent Skills finally clicked for me, Codex built a BROWSER in a week, Cowork is letting non-coders do agentic stuff, Gemini got creepily personal 🤯
We got @intellectronica on the show to break down skills and it was 🔥
Agent Skills finally clicked for me, Codex built a BROWSER in a week, Cowork is letting non-coders do agentic stuff, Gemini got creepily personal 🤯
We got @intellectronica on the show to break down skills and it was 🔥
🎙️ First live @thursdai_pod of 2026 is UP and holy shit what a way to start the year
NVIDIA drops 5x performance leap at CES, XAI raises $20B (while causing bikini-gate), ChatGPT officially goes into Health, and Ryan Carson breaks down why Ralph Wiggum is the death of vibe coding
Let's goooo 🧵
NVIDIA drops 5x performance leap at CES, XAI raises $20B (while causing bikini-gate), ChatGPT officially goes into Health, and Ryan Carson breaks down why Ralph Wiggum is the death of vibe coding
Let's goooo 🧵
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
🎙️ First live @thursdai_pod of 2026 is UP and holy shit what a way to start the year
NVIDIA drops 5x performance leap at CES, XAI raises $20B (while causing bikini-gate), ChatGPT officially goes into Health, and Ryan Carson breaks down why Ralph Wiggum is the death of vibe coding
Let's goooo 🧵
NVIDIA drops 5x performance leap at CES, XAI raises $20B (while causing bikini-gate), ChatGPT officially goes into Health, and Ryan Carson breaks down why Ralph Wiggum is the death of vibe coding
Let's goooo 🧵
🎄 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DROP 🎄
The FULL 2025 AI Year in Review is here!
🎁 👉 thursdai.news/2025-recap 👈 🎁
From DeepSeek crashing NVIDIA in January to GPT-5.2 reclaiming the throne in December, this was the year AI stopped being a curiosity and became real + year of agents!
The FULL 2025 AI Year in Review is here!
🎁 👉 thursdai.news/2025-recap 👈 🎁
From DeepSeek crashing NVIDIA in January to GPT-5.2 reclaiming the throne in December, this was the year AI stopped being a curiosity and became real + year of agents!
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🎄 SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DROP 🎄
The FULL 2025 AI Year in Review is here!
🎁 👉 thursdai.news/2025-recap 👈 🎁
From DeepSeek crashing NVIDIA in January to GPT-5.2 reclaiming the throne in December, this was the year AI stopped being a curiosity and became real + year of agents!
The FULL 2025 AI Year in Review is here!
🎁 👉 thursdai.news/2025-recap 👈 🎁
From DeepSeek crashing NVIDIA in January to GPT-5.2 reclaiming the throne in December, this was the year AI stopped being a curiosity and became real + year of agents!
The AI labs decided they absolutely could NOT let 2025 end quietly 🤯
Gemini 3 Flash (frontier intell at $0.50??), GPT 5.2 Codex breaking news, Nvidia open sourcing everything, Grok Voice in Teslas...
This week was an absolute banger.
👉 thursdai.news/dec-18 👈
Gemini 3 Flash (frontier intell at $0.50??), GPT 5.2 Codex breaking news, Nvidia open sourcing everything, Grok Voice in Teslas...
This week was an absolute banger.
👉 thursdai.news/dec-18 👈
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The AI labs decided they absolutely could NOT let 2025 end quietly 🤯
Gemini 3 Flash (frontier intell at $0.50??), GPT 5.2 Codex breaking news, Nvidia open sourcing everything, Grok Voice in Teslas...
This week was an absolute banger.
👉 thursdai.news/dec-18 👈
Gemini 3 Flash (frontier intell at $0.50??), GPT 5.2 Codex breaking news, Nvidia open sourcing everything, Grok Voice in Teslas...
This week was an absolute banger.
👉 thursdai.news/dec-18 👈
Just updated my @thursdai_pod research agent with Opus as a prompter and these custom infographics for each topic are 🧑🍳😗
Since tomorrow is our yearly AI recap, here's this week's news TL;DR right on X
Starting with the most important drops 👇
Since tomorrow is our yearly AI recap, here's this week's news TL;DR right on X
Starting with the most important drops 👇
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just updated my @thursdai_pod research agent with Opus as a prompter and these custom infographics for each topic are 🧑🍳😗
Since tomorrow is our yearly AI recap, here's this week's news TL;DR right on X
Starting with the most important drops 👇
Since tomorrow is our yearly AI recap, here's this week's news TL;DR right on X
Starting with the most important drops 👇
Always an amazing show when Sa̶n̶t̶Ma is dropping new GPTs! We had a hell of a show talking about LLMs in space, Putnam tests, and then GPT 5.2 dropped live!
Check out the episode & plz leave feedback I want to know how to
improve for next year 🙏
👉thursdai.news/dec-11
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Check out the episode & plz leave feedback I want to know how to
improve for next year 🙏
👉thursdai.news/dec-11
x.com/thursdai_po...
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Always an amazing show when Sa̶n̶t̶Ma is dropping new GPTs! We had a hell of a show talking about LLMs in space, Putnam tests, and then GPT 5.2 dropped live!
Check out the episode & plz leave feedback I want to know how to
improve for next year 🙏
👉thursdai.news/dec-11
x.com/thursdai_po...
Check out the episode & plz leave feedback I want to know how to
improve for next year 🙏
👉thursdai.news/dec-11
x.com/thursdai_po...
POD UP! 🎙️ First December ThursdAI and holy shit what a week
DeepSeek hits gold medals, Mistral goes full Apache 2.0, OpenAI declares code red, US-trained MOEs are back
👉 thursdai.news/dec-4 👈
DeepSeek hits gold medals, Mistral goes full Apache 2.0, OpenAI declares code red, US-trained MOEs are back
👉 thursdai.news/dec-4 👈
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
POD UP! 🎙️ First December ThursdAI and holy shit what a week
DeepSeek hits gold medals, Mistral goes full Apache 2.0, OpenAI declares code red, US-trained MOEs are back
👉 thursdai.news/dec-4 👈
DeepSeek hits gold medals, Mistral goes full Apache 2.0, OpenAI declares code red, US-trained MOEs are back
👉 thursdai.news/dec-4 👈
So I ambushed some Googlers at @aidotengineer right after their Gemini 3 week and they just.. told me where coding is actually going
recorded it live on the conference floor, it's chaotic but nobody's talking about this stuff yet 🚨
recorded it live on the conference floor, it's chaotic but nobody's talking about this stuff yet 🚨
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So I ambushed some Googlers at @aidotengineer right after their Gemini 3 week and they just.. told me where coding is actually going
recorded it live on the conference floor, it's chaotic but nobody's talking about this stuff yet 🚨
recorded it live on the conference floor, it's chaotic but nobody's talking about this stuff yet 🚨
Third Thanksgiving @thursdai_pod celebration! What an awesome week we covered with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten and @Yampeleg !
Get the full episode and show notes here
👉 thursdai.news/nov-27 👈
Get the full episode and show notes here
👉 thursdai.news/nov-27 👈
🦃 ThursdAI - Thanksgiving special 25’ - Claude 4.5, Flux 2 & Z-image vs 🍌, MCP gets Apps + New DeepSeek!?
From Weights & Biases, celebrating AI Thanksgiving with Opus 4.5, Flux 2 and Z-image, interview with Ido/Liad leading MCP-apps standard and a Intellect 3, Hunyuan OCR&Video and much more AI news!
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November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Third Thanksgiving @thursdai_pod celebration! What an awesome week we covered with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten and @Yampeleg !
Get the full episode and show notes here
👉 thursdai.news/nov-27 👈
Get the full episode and show notes here
👉 thursdai.news/nov-27 👈
Crazy crazy week in AI, and also a crazy podcast episode, recorded live on the floor of @aiDotEngineer today with @ryancarson @swyx @dkundel and @thorwebdev (on his 3rd day at DeepMind!)
👉 thursdai.news/nov-20 👈
We covered all the major releases of this week someone in 1.5 hours and 3000 words
👉 thursdai.news/nov-20 👈
We covered all the major releases of this week someone in 1.5 hours and 3000 words
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Crazy crazy week in AI, and also a crazy podcast episode, recorded live on the floor of @aiDotEngineer today with @ryancarson @swyx @dkundel and @thorwebdev (on his 3rd day at DeepMind!)
👉 thursdai.news/nov-20 👈
We covered all the major releases of this week someone in 1.5 hours and 3000 words
👉 thursdai.news/nov-20 👈
We covered all the major releases of this week someone in 1.5 hours and 3000 words
IT'S HERE! The new state of the art AI intelligence in the form of Gemini 3-pro - and it's available in Search AI mode, API, @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex today!
Plus:
🧩 Generative UIs!
🤖 Agent mode
🧑💻 VSCode clone
🤔 3 Deep Think
And lots more! Let's break it down 👇
Plus:
🧩 Generative UIs!
🤖 Agent mode
🧑💻 VSCode clone
🤔 3 Deep Think
And lots more! Let's break it down 👇
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
IT'S HERE! The new state of the art AI intelligence in the form of Gemini 3-pro - and it's available in Search AI mode, API, @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex today!
Plus:
🧩 Generative UIs!
🤖 Agent mode
🧑💻 VSCode clone
🤔 3 Deep Think
And lots more! Let's break it down 👇
Plus:
🧩 Generative UIs!
🤖 Agent mode
🧑💻 VSCode clone
🤔 3 Deep Think
And lots more! Let's break it down 👇
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! 👇