{"podcast":{"title":"ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week","slug":"thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","podcast_index_feed_id":6519604,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1801228.rss","website_url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1801228/815475f4483fffccfe3c00f76f4bdd7d.jpg","author":"From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week","episode_count":164,"summary":"From Weights & Biases - ThursdAI, the podcast that keeps you ahead of the AI curve. Hosted by AI Evangelist Alex Volkov with a changing panel expert guests, discussing every important AI piece of news and updates from the past week, Open source and more","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T10:18:29.820907+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604"},"episode":{"title":"📆 Open source just pulled up to Opus 4.6 — at 1/20th the price","slug":"open-source-just-pulled-up-to-opus-4-6-at-1-20th-the-price","published_at":"2026-02-13T03:34:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/open-source-just-pulled-up-to-opus-4-6-at-1-20th-the-price","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604","url":"https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-glm-5-minimax-25-seedance","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187812653/e43899d47d43cd3d507e83a6516247b7.mp3","summary":"Hey dear subscriber, Alex here from W&B, let me catch you up! This week started with Anthropic releasing /fast mode for Opus 4.6 , continued with ByteDance reality-shattering video model called SeeDance 2.0 , and then the open weights folks pulled up! Z.ai releasing GLM-5 , a 744B top ranking coder beast, and then today MiniMax dropping a heavily RL’d MiniMax M2.5 , showing 80.2% on SWE-bench, nearly beating Opus 4.6! I’ve interviewed Lou from Z.AI and Olive from MiniMax on the show today back to back btw, very interesting conversations, starting after TL;DR! So while the OpenSource models were catching up to frontier, OpenAI and Google both dropped breaking news (again, during the show), with Gemini 3 Deep Think shattering the ArcAGI 2 (84.6%) and Humanity’s Last Exam (48% w/o tools)... Just an absolute beast of a model update, and OpenAI launched their Cerebras collaboration, with GPT 5.3 Codex Spark , supposedly running at over 1000 tokens per second (but not as smart) Also, crazy week for us at W&B as we scrambled to host GLM-5 at day of release, and are working on dropping Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax both on our inference service ! As always, all show notes in the end, let’s DIVE IN! ThursdAI - AI is speeding up, don’t get left behind! Sub and I’ll keep you up to date with a weekly catch up Open Source LLMs Z.ai launches GLM-5 - #1 open-weights coder with 744B parameters ( X , HF , W&B inference ) The breakaway open-source model of the week is undeniably GLM-5 from Z.ai (formerly known to many of us as Zhipu AI). We were honored to have Lou, the Head of DevRel at Z.ai , join us live on the show at 1:00 AM Shanghai time to break down this monster of a release. GLM-5 is massive, not something you run at home (hey, that’s what W&B inference is for!) but it’…","meta_description":"Hey dear subscriber, Alex here from W&B, let me catch you up! This week started with Anthropic releasing /fast mode for Opus 4.6 , continued with Byte…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5295,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/episodes/open-source-just-pulled-up-to-opus-4-6-at-1-20th-the-price/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604/open-source-just-pulled-up-to-opus-4-6-at-1-20th-the-price.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}