Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

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110 episodes

Episodes

#220 - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Claude for Chrome, DeepConf
Sep 1, 2025
This episode covers Google’s Gemini 2.
#219 - GPT 5, Opus 4.1, OpenAI's Open Source, Astrocade
Aug 11, 2025
This episode covers the release of OpenAI’s GPT-5, which consolidates previous models into a single routing system, and Anthropic’s Opus 4.
#218 - Github Spark, MegaScience, US AI Action Plan
Jul 31, 2025
This episode covers the Trump administration’s AI action plan and GitHub’s new “vibe coding” tool, Spark.
#217 - ChatGPT Agent, Kimi k2, Hiring Drama
Jul 23, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, Alibaba’s Kimi K2 model, and Amazon’s Kiro coding tool.
#216 - Grok 4, Project Rainier, Kimi K2
Jul 14, 2025
This episode analyzes xAI’s Grok 4 launch, which leads frontier benchmarks but sparked controversy over anti-Semitic outputs and alignment with Elon Musk’s views.
#215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search
Jul 8, 2025
This episode covers Cloudflare’s new default blocking of AI scrapers and Runway’s entry into AI-generated gaming.
#214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome, copyright rulings
Jul 4, 2025
This episode covers Google’s Gemini CLI launch, Anthropic’s new artifact publishing features, and the ongoing trademark lawsuit between OpenAI and IO.
#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro
Jun 26, 2025
This episode covers Midjourney’s new video generation tool, Google’s Gemini 2.
#212 - o3 pro, Cursor 1.0, ProRL, Midjourney Sued
Jun 17, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s O3 Pro release, Cursor’s 1.
#211 - Claude Voice, Flux Kontext, wrong RL research?
Jun 3, 2025
This episode covers Anthropic’s voice mode, Black Forest Labs’ image editing tools, and Perplexity’s agentic features.
#210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, OpenAI+io, Gemini Diffusion
May 26, 2025
This episode covers major AI announcements from Google I/O 2025 and Anthropic’s Claude 4 release, highlighting advancements in coding agents, video generation, and search.
#209 - OpenAI non-profit, US diffusion rules, AlphaEvolve
May 19, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s decision to retain its nonprofit structure while transitioning its for-profit arm to a public benefit corporation,…
#208 - Claude Integrations, ChatGPT Sycophancy, Leaderboard Cheats
May 8, 2025
This episode covers Anthropic’s new app integrations for Claude and OpenAI’s controversial “sycophantic” model update.
#207 - GPT 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Ironwood, Claude Max
Apr 18, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s GPT-4.
#206 - Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench
Apr 9, 2025
This episode covers Meta’s controversial Llama 4 launch, Amazon’s Nova Act web agent, and Alibaba’s upcoming Qwen3.
#205 - Gemini 2.5, ChatGPT Image Gen, Thoughts of LLMs
Apr 1, 2025
This episode covers Google’s Gemini 2.
#204 - OpenAI Audio, Rubin GPUs, MCP, Zochi
Mar 24, 2025
This episode covers Baidu’s cost-competitive Ernie models and OpenAI’s new audio tools and expensive O1 Pro API.
#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics
Mar 17, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s new agent-building tools and a $12B Corvi deal, signaling a shift in B2B strategy.
#202 - Qwen-32B, Anthropic's $3.5 billion, LLM Cognitive Behaviors
Mar 9, 2025
This episode analyzes the shift from pure pre-training to inference-time reasoning, discussing GPT-4.
#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 4
Mar 5, 2025
This episode covers major AI releases, including OpenAI’s GPT-4.
#200 - ChatGPT Roadmap, Musk OpenAI Bid, Model Tampering
Feb 17, 2025
The hosts celebrate their 200th episode and announce format changes, including retiring bios and adding listener topics.
#199 - OpenAI's 03-mini, Gemini Thinking, Deep Research, s1
Feb 12, 2025
This episode covers OpenAI’s O3 Mini and Deep Research, Google’s Gemini 2.
#198 - DeepSeek R1 & Janus, Qwen2.5, OpenAI Agents
Feb 2, 2025
This episode of Last Week in AI focuses heavily on DeepSeek R1, analyzing its reinforcement learning approach to reasoning and its implications for hardware demand and US-China export controls.
AI Computing Hardware - Past, Present, and Future
Jan 29, 2025
This episode explores the critical intersection of AI and hardware, tracing the evolution from early custom machines to modern GPU-driven data centers.
#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
Jan 20, 2025
Alessio and Swix from Latent Space guest-host this episode, covering Google and Microsoft’s new AI pricing strategies and the ongoing data licensing wars with news publishers.
#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign
Jan 13, 2025
This episode focuses heavily on AI hardware, detailing NVIDIA’s $3,000 personal supercomputer and its push into custom ASIC manufacturing in Taiwan to compete with Broadcom.
#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space
Jan 5, 2025
Host Jeremy Harris discusses OpenAI’s O3 model, highlighting its breakthrough performance on coding and reasoning benchmarks like SWE-bench and ARC-AGI.
#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment
Dec 30, 2024
The hosts discuss Google’s release of Gemini 2 Flash Thinking, Veo 2 video generation, and Project Mariner browser agents, alongside XAI’s Grok 2 launch.
#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar
Dec 23, 2024
This episode covers OpenAI’s launch of Sora and ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode, alongside Google’s Gemini 2.
#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2
Dec 16, 2024
This episode covers OpenAI’s new $200 ChatGPT Pro tier and Amazon’s launch of the Nova model family, alongside updates on ElevenLabs and Google’s Veo.
#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives
Dec 5, 2024
This episode covers the leaked OpenAI Sora video generator, discussing its quality and the controversy surrounding artist relations.
#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights
Nov 28, 2024
The hosts discuss reports of slowing AI progress at major labs, contrasting this with rapid advances in agentic AI and new reasoning APIs.
#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
Nov 17, 2024
This episode covers new features from OpenAI and Anthropic, including speculative decoding and pricing shifts.
#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0
Nov 8, 2024
Host Jeremy covers recent AI news while recovering from a newborn hospital stay.
#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
Oct 28, 2024
The hosts return from a break to cover Anthropic’s new agentic Claude 3.
#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes
Oct 20, 2024
Andrei and guest host Chris Albon discuss Adobe’s new AI video tools, YouTube’s DreamTrack expansion, and Meta AI’s global rollout.
#185 - Movie Gen, ChatGPT Canvas, OpenAI's VC Round, SB 1047 Vetoed
Oct 12, 2024
This episode covers Meta’s MovieGen video generator, highlighting its inpainting capabilities and potential as a world simulator.
#184 - OpenAI's Voice 2.0 + execs quitting, Llama 3.2, To CoT or not to CoT?
Oct 2, 2024
Guest co-host John Krohn joins Andrei to discuss OpenAI’s advanced voice mode, Meta’s celebrity voice integrations, and the rapid rollout of Gemini’s voice chat.
#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo
Sep 26, 2024
Hosts Jeremy Harris and a co-host discuss OpenAI’s release of O1, a reasoning-focused model that hides its chain-of-thought for competitive advantage.
# 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved
Sep 17, 2024
This episode covers Amazon partnering with Anthropic to power a paid Alexa 2.
#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy
Sep 15, 2024
Hosts Andrei Kerenkov and Jerry Ares discuss Google’s new Gemini Gems, experimental models, and restored image generation capabilities.
#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047
Sep 3, 2024
This episode covers Ideogram 2’s text improvements, Google’s free Imagen 3, and faster video tools from Luma and Runway.
#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist
Aug 20, 2024
This episode covers the beta launch of Grok 2 with Flux image generation, OpenAI’s mysterious GPT-4.
#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk
Aug 16, 2024
Hosts discuss the AI startup "implosion," analyzing Google’s acqui-hire of Character.
#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2
Aug 11, 2024
Hosts Jeremy and Andrei discuss Apple Intelligence’s delayed iOS 18 launch, Meta’s new AI Studio for Instagram, and NVIDIA’s Blackwell chip delay.
#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2
Aug 3, 2024
This episode covers OpenAI’s Search GPT prototype, Google’s Gemini 1.
#175 - GPT-4o Mini, OpenAI's Strawberry, Mixture of A Million Experts
Jul 25, 2024
This episode covers OpenAI’s launch of the cheaper GPT-4o Mini and its secret "Strawberry" reasoning project.
#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic
Jul 1, 2024
This episode covers Anthropic’s new Claude features, Google’s Gemini integration, and OpenAI’s delayed voice mode.
#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc
Jun 24, 2024
This episode covers Apple’s launch of Apple Intelligence and its partnership with OpenAI, alongside new video generation tools from Luma AI, Runway, and Leonardo AI.
#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?
Jun 9, 2024
This episode covers Kuaishou’s new Kling video generator, Apple’s upcoming hybrid AI strategy, and OpenAI’s restart of its robotics research group.
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