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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

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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google is BACK in voice 🎧 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is #1, and it can clone a voice from 30 seconds of audio. We played the designed voices live on the show, the meditation guide in headphones was 🤌 thursdai.news/sep-24#sec-...
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol & Luna, Meta Muse & the Jev Clones — ThursdAI Sep 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% less, GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price, Meta Muse, Grok 4.7, the open-source Jev clones with JevBench's Florian S., and Gemini TTS.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It took open source less than a week to clone Jev 🤯 Same API format, so you just swap the URL. We ran one live in my browser at 132ms per decision, on MY machine, for free. thursdai.news/sep-24#jev-...
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People literally tried to hack his machine to steal the benchmark 😳 Florian built JevBench the same day Jev dropped. 70+ models in a week, and a 4B open model just took #1 from Jev. thursdai.news/sep-24#jevb...
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hot take: GPT-6 Sol is better than Astra for my day to day 🔥 Half the price, 90% off cached input, and Astra has honestly been burning tokens for crappy results. Peter Gostev agrees, Sol is his daily driver. thursdai.news/sep-24#gpt-6
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol & Luna, Meta Muse & the Jev Clones — ThursdAI Sep 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% less, GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price, Meta Muse, Grok 4.7, the open-source Jev clones with JevBench's Florian S., and Gemini TTS.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grok 4.7? Meh 😬 But Grok inside your Tesla is the real news. One guy asked his car for his usual Starbucks, and it was ordered, paid and waiting when he got there. I don't have it yet, but I WANT to MCP from my car 🚗 thursdai.news/sep-24#grok
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meta went ALL in on Muse 🤯 It's getting a voice, a place on your face with a custom wake word, a keychain (Muse Charm), and it'll live in the new VR glasses. Oh, and every user gets a free cloud computer with root. Nisten already Tailscaled into his 👀 thursdai.news/sep-24#meta...
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol & Luna, Meta Muse & the Jev Clones — ThursdAI Sep 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% less, GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price, Meta Muse, Grok 4.7, the open-source Jev clones with JevBench's Florian S., and Gemini TTS.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anthropic, please. PLEASE don't nerf this one 🙏 Opus 5.5 is Fable-level smart for 40% less, it talks like a human again, and for the first time in months I couldn't finish my Claude quota. Even Nisten made it his default. thursdai.news/ep/sep-24-2...
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Grok @bot has a @1Password integration! You ask it to connect to your account, it creates a specific vault with it's own keys and you decide which keys / api keys / logins you are willing to share with you bot! Genius, simple and so so wanted!
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ThursdAI Sep 10 is up on the VOD. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with Chris Alexiuk (Nvidia / @llm_wizard), OpenAI's Navier-Stokes claim, Meta Muse, and that weird week of safety headlines. thursdai.news/sep-10
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That 267% electricity number: one wholesale grid node next to a closed nuclear plant. Not your power bill.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week's ThursdAI is up. Last show of the summer. NVIDIA buying Hugging Face, Ox Alpha = GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen 4 preview, Omni 1.1 Flash mid-show. Andy Masley on the datacenter numbers, Kwindla on PhoneLLM. thursdai.news/aug-27
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NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4 Preview, Gemini Omni 1.1, and the Datacenter Debate w/ Andy Masley
From CoreWeave - join Alex and ThursdAI co-host, covering the last week of the summer in AI, with 4 Flash models, Datacenter debate & more AI news
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tomorrow 8:30am PT I'm going live with ThursdAI. Last week OpenAI hit the brakes. This week they published the receipts: ~1,200 agents built their own board, 70k+ messages, ~700 went after Hugging Face. Root in under 13 hours.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Today is a Papercut fixing day with Codex & Sol! Here we go: Sol is INCREDIBLE at computer use! First task, I hate that Chrome doesn't have a native copy URL to clipboard mapped to cmd+shift+c - Codex tried to find a native way to do this, couldn't but found a workaround! #1
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What's up with the water use discourse? It's a ridiculous talking point, and yet it seems a very popular one, particularly with AI hating youths? I shared this video and it immediately got tons of comments like "well, we can't eat AI" 🤦‍♂️
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Asked @jeffdean.bsky.social about the difference between Omni (the new omni-modality flavour of Gemini) and a regular video model!
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Was fairly sick this week, surprisingly this didn't come through. New pod up, we covered @cursor_ai composer 2, Jensen going all in on OpenClaw, @MiniMax_AI 3.7 and a lot more! Check out our Mar 19 episode on YT, everywhere you get your podcast and right here in comments 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Is X down for any of you?
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Called it! OpenAI launched GPT 5.4 live during @thursdai_pod, so we had a chance to test it immediately and found some surprising quirks! Also covered the Anthropic vs Dow drama, Qwen 3.5 small (and Junyang departure) and more! Our new episode just dropped, check it out 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today, OpenAI launched their "best model yet", GPT 5.4 Thinking (and 5.4 Pro). After 5.3 Codex just in beginning of Feb, OpenAI has once again pulled back the coding advances into the more generalized model Pricing, new capabilities, vibechecks in thread👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
3 years doing this weekly and I've never felt closer to the singularity than right now Everyone's shipping async AI agents. Everything's converging. This week we covered Anthropic vs DoD, had 3 incredible interviews with @dabit3 @philipkiely and @bencera_ and way more 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I knew we named it @thursdai_pod for a reason! AI labs LOOOVE dropping stuff on a Thursday! Just today we had: MiniMax 2.5 (+ @olive_jy_song hopped on) OAI 5.2 Spark - @cerebras powered and Gemini Deep Think beating Arc AGI 2 SOTA by 16 points + covered GLM5 and Seedance 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
BREAKING: MiniMax just dropped official M2.5 benchmarks and they're going HEAD TO HEAD with Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, and Gemini 3 Pro 🤯 And Olive Song from @MiniMax_AI is joining ThursdAI LIVE in ~30 min to break it all down @ThursdAI_pod Here are the numbers 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Another MASSIVE week in AI 🔥 Moonshot dropped Kimi K2.5 1T — SOTA on agentic benchmarks, Anthropic shipped MCP Apps , Karpathy says 80% of his code is now AI-written, RIP Clawdbot and much much more! All this and more on @thursdai_pod tomorrow at 8:30am PT!
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🎙️ 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 🔥
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🎙️ 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 🧵
Colorful sketchnote summarizing tech headlines: NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU leap, open‑source model updates, AI health tools, Gmail Gemini, voice AI, plus a cartoon host.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
🎄 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!
Colorful infographic titled "ThursdAI 2025" summarizing a milestone AI year with timelines, metrics, major events, and icons for models and companies.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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 👈
Cartoon host in a yellow jacket and Santa hat, smiling with hands up as colorful wrapped gifts float around against a festive, sparkly background.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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...
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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 👈
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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 🚨
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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 👈
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🦃 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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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Spooky Halloween edition of ThursdAI is out! thursdai.news/oct-30
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
📆 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
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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 👈
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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!
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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.
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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 🤔
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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. 1/
Overview of performance and reliability metrics from large-scale AItraining jobs on CoreWeave’s platform, benchmarked
against public results from industry leading benchmarks. CoreWeave demonstrated 18–28% higher GPU efficiency (MFU),
10x longer MTTF, and significantly faster checkpointing and tokenization—all contributing to improved cost-efficiency and
time-to-marketforfoundation modeltraining.

Table 1. Summary of CoreWeave Benchmark Results Compared to Industry Baselines
Metric CoreWeave Result Industry Baseline CoreWeave
Uplift
Model FLOPS
Utilization (MFU)
51–52% (1024 NVIDIA
H100 GPUs)
35-45%4,5,6 +18–28%
Effective Training
Time Ratio (ETTR)
97.5% @ 1024 GPUs
~90% or lower
1 ~8% gain
Mean Time to Failure
(MTTF)
3.66 days @ 1024 GPUs ~0.33 days
2 @ 1024
GPUs
10× longer
Checkpoint Save
Time
17s (async,1024 GPUs) 129s (synchronous
baseline, Section 6.2)
~8× faster
Checkpoint Load
Time
8.8–34.5s (Tensorizer) 25.9–68.3s
(torch.distributed,
Section 6.2)
2–3× faster
3
Tokenization
Throughput
63M tokens/sec
(gpt_bpe)
~5-10M tokens/sec
(HugginFace
Tokenizers)
7
6–12× faster
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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)
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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 👏 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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! 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
WHAT A SHOW! Folks, just sent the last @thursdai_pod and it's a "must not miss" episode! We had over 20K folks tune in to our livestreams today & yesterday and covered @xai Grok-4 (w/ controversies), @huggingface foray into robotics, had breaking news from @LiquidAI_ @RekaAILabs check it out 👇
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Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) @altryne.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🎙️ New @thursdAI POD - June 19 - we talked with @pankaj about @yupp_ai , reviewed 3 new video models from @Hailuo_AI ByteDance and @midjourney and covered a lot more AI What a great week for AI and a great conversation with @WolframRvnwlf @nisten @Yampeleg & @ldjconfirmed 👇
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