Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)

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Alex Volkov from ThursdAI Welcome to ThursdAI—your weekly AI roundup hosted by Alex, streaming live every Thursday on X (formerly Twitter), and now available right here on YouTube! Each week, we dive deep into the latest AI news, breakthroughs, and trends—from OpenAI updates to Meta hackathons and Google I/O highlights. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, developer, or just AI-curious, ThursdAI provides insightful analysis, expert opinions, and engaging discussions that help you stay ahead in the world of artificial intelligence. Hit subscribe to join our community, never miss an update, and be part of the conversation shaping AI’s future. ThursdAI has been reporting on all the major AI news for over 2 years, starting with the announcement of GPT 4 back in March 14, 2023, and became a podcast in June of 2023 You can follow the podcast on every major podcast platform: Spotify: https://thursdai.news/spotify Apple: https://thursdai.news/apple Substack: https://sub.thursdai.news

I'll be going live on @thursdai_pod to cover all this from @aiDotEngineer Code in NY this Thursday, make sure to tune in for a detailed coverage + more 👀

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It even has a playground, no longer requiring opening a new folder to do off the cuff tests! Getting "emails" from your agents is wild ngl

What's cool about Anti-gravity is the new Manager mode, where instead of being a developer, you're effectively a PM, running a bunch of agents, getting messages from them in an Inbox and maintaining a fleet of agents!

The agents can open the browser, record a video and iterate

It's live now at antigravity.google across MacOS, Linux and Windows! It has a plan mode and a code mode and Gemini 3 pro is really powerful in vibe coding things.

Antigravity is a VScode clone, but has direct access to a Chrome browser via an extension (no MCP support yet) and can perform actions, click things etc.

It also has a cool agent only mode and artifacts! I really like it and expect to be using it going forward for vibe coding

Ok now for the really big bomb, Joining Jules and Gemini CLI, Google releases Antigravity, their VSCode clone for agentic coding, powered by Gemini 3 Pro!

I've been testing this for a bit, and I really like it! The biggest surprise, they will be offering this for FREE 👀

I'll be posting a full breakdown of the new Agent search separately, but Gemini app will now be able to take actions on your behalf! Finally, Google is stepping into the Agentic AI scene, with work that started with Mariner a while ago! 👀

Both Pro and Thinking will be available in @Google search as well (with a smart router)

In AI mode, you are now able to ask for a deeper and richer results and the generative UIs are featured here as well, here's an example of a loan calculator vibe coded just for a Mortgage

The Era of Generative UI is here!

Thanks to Gemini-3 pro multimodal understanding, Google is basically shipping mini-apps at inference time!

This will include rich media previews, but also, vibe coded apps just for your request! Honestly bonkers!

Gemini was always a beast at multimodal, but 3 takes it even further!
Earning impressive marks of 81% on MMMU-Pro and 87.6% on Video-MMMU, it achieves a leading 72.1% on SimpleQA Verified, demonstrating significant strides in factual accuracy.

Text, Image and Video as inputs!

Evals are nuts 📈

With a massive 1501 @arena (+50 on 2.5 pro), 91.9% on GPQA diamond and 37.5% on HLE, this is the most powerful LLM intelligence we've had access to yet.

And w/ DeepThink + tools an even more impressive 41.1% on HLE and an unprecedented 45.1% on @arcprize

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 👇

Happy Halloween! 🎃 This week's ThursdAI is a spooky special packed with mind-blowing updates. We're joined by Skyler Miao from Minimax to break down the new... ThursdAI 🎃 Oct 30 halloween special: MiniMax M2, OpenAI’s ASI Roadmap, 1X NEO, Cursor 2.0 & Sonic-3

And here's the edited video, as I've started to notice folks like videos more!
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📆 ThursdAI - Oct 30, 2025 - MiniMax M2 Shocks Open Source, OpenAI Charts Path to ASI, and Humanoid Robots Come Home 🎃 From Weights & Biases, another crazy AI week, humanoids in your home, MiniMax 2 interview w/ Skyler, Cartesia interview with Arjun, OpenAIs new structure and ASI within a decade claims & more AI news

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model that starts speaking in under 50ms!

+ Humanoid debates, Sora character Cameos, interactive video with @odysseyml and much much more!

Chatted with @SkylerMiao7 about @MiniMax__AI M2, that's top of the OSS charts, then covered the crazy OpenAI livestream and the bombshells that @sama and @merettm dropped (ASI < 10y) + covered news from @cognition and @cursor_ai and finally got the download from @jundesai about @cartesia_ai Sonic 3

Spooky Halloween edition of ThursdAI is out!

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Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 Welcome to ThursdAI for October 23rd! This episode is packed with the latest in AI developments. We discuss the AI browser wars, i... 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 23 - ChatGPT Atlast browser, DeepSeek OCR, Claude Code web, Director & more AI news

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📆 ThursdAI - Oct 23: The AI Browser Wars Begin, DeepSeek's OCR Mind-Trick & The Race to Real-Time Video From Weights & Biases, Deep Dive into Atlas browser from ChatGPT + interview with Paul Klein (BrowserBase) about Agents authentication, DeepSeek changes the game again with OCR and more AI news

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@nisten and @Yampeleg got excited about Claude code on the web, and @ldjconfirmed helped break down the @deepseek_ai OCR incredible release!

📆 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

📆 ThursdAI - Oct 16 - VEO3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT adult mode, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX spark, Wordlabs RTFM & more AI news From Weights & Biases - Google AI Finds Cancer Clue, VEO 3.1, Haiku 4.5, ChatGPT Erotica, Agentic Win 11, Claude Skills, NVIDIA DGX, Wordlabs RTFM, Ads in Amp & SWE-GREP Cognition + 4 interviews

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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week Tech News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Every ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, ai engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on twitter spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world o…

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We also covered a LOT of ground, Google's new cancer fighting open source model, Nvidia's DGX, Anthropics new skills and Haiku 4.5 and a bunch more!

Newsletter is 🔥 as well with all the links you need to stay up to date this week!

POD UP! A fresh ThursdAI for Oct-16 with tons of content! We had 4 great interviews, PM for VEO3.1 (Jessica), @swyx with SWE Grep breaking news, @corbtt talked to us about RL and @sqs about ad powered free coding agents!

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📆 Oct 9, 2025 — Dev Day’s Agent Era, Samsung’s 7M TRM Shock, Ling‑1T at 1T, Grok Video goes NSFW, and Serverless RL arrives From Weights & Biases, our third OpenAI Dev Day recap, AgentKit, AppsSDK, new APIs + an intimate interview with Sam Altman & Greg Brockman

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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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Sora 2 Crushes TikTok, Claude 4.5 Fizzles, DeepSeek innovates attention and GLM 4.6 Takes the Crown! 🔥 From Weights & Biases: inside Sora 2’s TikTok‑style launch, Sonnet 4.5’s agent gains (and pains), and DeepSeek’s DSA breakthrough—plus GLM‑4.6 and Kandinsky 5.0

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Welcome to ThursdAI on October 2nd! Join Alex Volkov as he dives into the most exciting week in AI yet. This episode covers the groundbreaking release of Sor... 📆 ThursdAI - Oct 2 - Sora 2 the new TikTok? Claude 4.5 disappoints, GLM 4.6 shines & other AI news

This was such a visual episode that I had to edit the podcast in video form, unfortunately the newsletter website doesn't syndicate video podcasts, so it's also on YT here:
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