# 🎂 ThursdAI — 3rd BirthdAI: Singularity Updates Begin with Auto Researcher, Uploaded Brains, OpenClaw Mania & NVIDIA's $26B Bet on Open Source

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Published: 2026-03-13T01:43:17+00:00
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Hey, Alex here 👋 Today was a special episode, as ThursdAI turns 3 🎉 We’ve been on air, weekly since Pi day, March 14th, 2023. I won’t go too nostalgic but I’ll just mention, back then GPT-4 just launched with 8K context window, could barely code, tool calls weren’t a thing, it was expensive and slow, and yet we all felt it, it’s begun! Fast forward to today, and this week, we’ve covered Andrej Karpathy’s mini singularity moment with AutoResearcher, a whole fruit fly brain uploaded to a simulation, China’s OpenClaw embrace with 1000 people lines to install the agent. I actually created a new corner on ThursdAI, called it Singularity updates, to cover the “out of distribution” mind expanding things that are happening around AI (or are being enabled by AI) Also this week, we’ve had 3 interviews, Chris from Nvidia came to talk to use about Nemotron 3 super and NVIDIA’s 26B commitment to OpenSource, Dotta (anon) with his PaperClips agent orchestration project reached 20K Github starts in a single week and Matt who created /last30days research skill + a whole bunch of other AI news! Let’s dive in. ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Singularity updates - new segment Andrej Karpathy open sources Mini Singularity with Auto Researcher ( X ) If there’s 1 highlight this week in the world of AI, it’s this. Andrej, who previously started the AutoPilot program in Tesla, and co-founded OpenAI, is now, out there, in the open, just.. doing stuff like invent a completely autonomous ML research agent. Andrej posted to his almost 2M followers that he opensourced AutoResearch, a way to instruct a coding agent to do experiments against a specific task, test the…

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