{"podcast":{"title":"The Generative AI Meetup Podcast","slug":"generative-ai-meetup","podcast_index_feed_id":6763937,"rss_url":"https://podcast.genaimeetup.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.genaimeetup.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/17891792/Gemini_Generated_Image_sqmm5isqmm5isqmm_minified.png","author":"Mark and Shashank","episode_count":77,"summary":"Hosted by Mark and Shashank, software engineers and organizers in Silicon Valley. Get their grounded perspective each week as they explore the generative AI landscape through news analysis, tech discussions, hands-on experiments, and clear explanations. Dive into the latest language models, AI agent capabilities, and RAG techniques. Understand the hardware race, key research, startup trends, benchmarks, and the real-world impact of AI across industries like healthcare, robotics, and creative work. We also test AI limits, explain core concepts, discuss ethics, and interview builders shaping the field. For engineers, developers, researchers, and anyone seeking a practical understanding of AI’s rapid evolution and its applications.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T08:18:42.805015+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-meetup"},"episode":{"title":"Cheaper, Faster & Smarter: Qwen 3.8 27B, GLM 5.3, Grok 4.6, Cerebras","slug":"cheaper-faster-smarter-qwen-3-8-27b-glm-5-3-grok-4-6-cerebras","published_at":"2026-08-18T05:40:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-meetup/cheaper-faster-smarter-qwen-3-8-27b-glm-5-3-grok-4-6-cerebras","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-meetup","url":"https://podcast.genaimeetup.com/e/cheaper-faster-smarter-qwen-38-27b-glm-53-grok-46-cerebras/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i7trpajygvv62e3f/podcast-enhanced.mp3","summary":"https://novacut.ai/ https://genaimeetup.com/ Jeff returns to the Gen AI Meetup Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on where AI is heading—and why powerful models running on consumer hardware could change the economics of the entire industry. We dive into Qwen 3.8 27B and the growing viability of running capable LLMs locally, GLM 5.3 and the latest Chinese open-source models, DeepSeek, Gemini 3.7, Grok 4.6, Meta’s latest models, and OpenAI’s partnership with Cerebras for dramatically faster inference. We also discuss whether foundation models are becoming commodities, what that means for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, and why more value may ultimately move to the application layer. Jeff shares how his team approaches AI in healthcare, including self-hosting, data sovereignty, classifiers, fine-tuning, and spec-driven development for building reliable AI-assisted software without accumulating a mountain of vibe-coded technical debt. Plus: Jeff Dean’s departure from Google, Discovery Loop, Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition, Anthropic’s controversial AI-text watermarking experiments, and whether watermarking could affect model quality. Topics include: Qwen 3.8 27B, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4, Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7, Cerebras, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, local LLMs, open-source AI, model commoditization, spec-driven development, AI healthcare, data sovereignty, AI coding agents, and model watermarking.","meta_description":"https://novacut.ai/ https://genaimeetup.com/ Jeff returns to the Gen AI Meetup Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion on where AI is heading—and why powerf…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6577,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/generative-ai-meetup/episodes/cheaper-faster-smarter-qwen-3-8-27b-glm-5-3-grok-4-6-cerebras/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-meetup/cheaper-faster-smarter-qwen-3-8-27b-glm-5-3-grok-4-6-cerebras.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}