Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)

@altryne.bsky.social

Host @ ThursdAI.news pod AI Evangelist @ Weights & Biases CEO @ Targum.Video Opinions my own

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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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" 🤦‍♂️

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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🎙️ 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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🎙️ 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.

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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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 🚨

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 👇

📆 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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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!

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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.

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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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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