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AI on IBM z17, Meta's Llama 4 and Google Cloud Next 2025
Apr 23, 2026
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IBM z17 is here! In episode 50 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is
joined by Kate Soule, Shobhit Varshney and Hillery Hunter to debrief the
launch of a new mainframe with robust AI infrastructure. Next, Meta
dropped Llama 4 over the weekend;, how's it going? Then, Shobhit is
recording live from Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, along with Gemini
2.5 Pro. What are some of the most exciting announcements? Finally, the
Pew Research Center shows perception of AI, how does this impact the
industry? All that and more on today’s 50th Mixture of Experts. 00:01 -- Intro 00:55 -- IBM z17 11:42 -- Llama 4 25:02 -- Google Cloud Next 2025 34:29 -- Pew's research on perception of AI The
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o3 and o4-mini, Google Gemini on-prem and NVIDIA’s U.S. chip manufacturing
Apr 18, 2025
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OpenAI just dropped o3 and o4-mini! In episode 51 of Mixture of Experts
host, Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Vyoma Gajjar and special guest
John Willis, Owner of Botchagalupe Technologies. Today, we analyze Sam
Altman’s new AI models, o3 and o4-mini. Next, Google announced that by
Q3 you can run Gemini on-prem; what does this mean for enterprise AI
adoption? Then, John is on the show today to take us through AI
evaluation tools and why we need them. Finally, NVIDIA is planning to
move AI chip manufacturing to the U.S. Can they pull this off? All that
and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 00:01 – Intro 00:56 – OpenAI o3 and o4 mini 14:57 – Google Gemini on-prem 23:43 – AI evaluation tools 34:59 – NVIDIA's U.S. chip manufacturing The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
OpenAI goes open source, Anthropic interpretability, Amazon AI agents and Apple Intelligence updates
Apr 04, 2025
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Will OpenAI be fully open source by 2027? In episode 49 of Mixture of
Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Ash Minhas and
Chris Hay to analyze Sam Altman’s latest move towards open source. Next,
we explore Anthropic's mechanistic interpretability results and the
progress the AI research community is making. Then, can Apple catch up?
We analyze the latest critiques on Apple Intelligence. Finally, Amazon
enters the chat with AI agents. How does this elevate the competition?
All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 00:01 -- Introduction 00:48 -- OpenAI goes open 11:36 -- Anthropic interpretability results 24:55 -- Daring Fireball on Apple Intelligence 34:22 -- Amazon’s AI agents The
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DeepSeek-V3-0324, Gemini Canvas and GPT-4o image generation
Mar 28, 2025
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What’s the best open-source model? In episode 48 of Mixture of Experts,
host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Kush Varshney and Skyler
Speakman to explore the future of open-source AI models. First, we chat
about the release of DeepSeek-V3-0324. Then, more announcements coming
out of Google including Gemini Canvas and Gemini 2.5. Next, Extropic has
entered the chat with a thermodynamic chip. Finally, AI image
generation is on the rise as OpenAI released GPT-4o image generation.
All that, and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 00:01 – Intro 00:42– DeepSeek-V3-0324 09:48 – Gemini 2.5 and Canvas 21:27– Extropic’s thermodynamic chip 30:20 – OpenAI image generation The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
NVIDIA GTC, Baidu reasoning models, and Gemini AI image generation
Mar 21, 2025
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What’s the most exciting announcement coming out of NVIDIA GTC? In
episode 47 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Nathalie
Baracaldo, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Vyoma Gajjar. First, we dive into
the latest announcements from NVIDIA GTC, including the Groot N1 model
for humanoid robotics. Next, Baidu released some new AI reasoning
models, and they’re not open source? Then, for our paper of the week we
discuss the flaws of Chain-of-Thought reasoning. Finally, Gemini Flash
2.0 has released image generation models for developer experimentation.,
Iis Google catching up on the AI game? Tune -in to today’s Mixture of
Experts to find out! 00:01 – Intro 01:27– NVIDIA GTC 14:18– New Baidu AI models 21:19– Chain-of-Thought reasoning 32:18 – Gemini image generation The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
Manus, vibe coding, scaling laws and Perplexity’s AI phone
Mar 14, 2025
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Is Manus a second DeepSeek moment? In episode 46 of Mixture of Experts,
host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Vyoma
Gajjar to talk Manus! Next, the rise of vibe coding—what started as a
joke has now become a thing? Then, we dive deep into the future of
scaling laws. Finally, Perplexity is teaming up with Deutsche Telekom to
release an AI phone—what’s the motivation here? Tune-in to today’s
Mixture of Experts to find out more! 00:01 – Intro 00:37 -- Manus 14:09 – Vibe coding 30:13 – Scaling laws 39:07 – Perplexity's AI phone The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
Quantum leap, Model Context Protocol, CoreWeave IPO and an AI voice companion
Mar 07, 2025
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When can we expect quantum to reach consumer devices? In episode 45 of
Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by special guest, Blake
Johnson, to debrief the quantum noise in the news. Blake helps us
understand the intersection between quantum and AI and how far we are
from this technology. Then, veteran experts Chris Hay and Volkmar Uhlig
hash out some other news in AI this week. We cover Anthropic’s Model
Context Protocol, CoreWeave filing for an IPO and Sesame AI’s new voice
companion. All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts! 00:01 – Intro 01:06 – Quantum leap 20:08 -- Model Context Protocol 28:24 -- CoreWeave IPO 40:12 -- Sesame AI voice companion The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
Bonus- OpenAI GPT-4.5- And the future of pre-training is...
Mar 01, 2025
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Is pre-training dead? In this bonus episode of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Kate Soule and Chris Hay to debrief the release GPT-4.5!
Claude 3.7 Sonnet, BeeAI agents, Granite 3.2, and emergent misalignment
Feb 28, 2025
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Granite 3.2 is officially here! In episode 44 of Mixture of Experts,
host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Maya Murad and Kaoutar El
Maghraoui to debrief a few big AI announcements. Last week we covered
small vision-language models (VLMs), and this week Granite 3.2 dropped
with new VLMs, enhanced reasoning capabilities, and more! Kate takes us
under the hood to understand the new features and how they were
created. Next, Anthropic dropped a new intelligence model, Claude 3.7
Sonnet, and a new agentic coding tool, Claude Code. Why did Anthropic
release these separately? Then, as we cannot have an episode without
covering agents, Maya takes us through the new BeeAI agents! Finally,
can fine tuning on a malicious task lead to much broader misalignment?
Our experts analyze a new paper released on ‘Emergent misalignment.’ All
that and more on this week's episode! 00:01 – Intro 00:41 – Claude 3.7 Sonnet 11:58 – BeeAI agents 20:11– Granite 3.2 29:23 – Emergent misalignment The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
Deep Research, OpenAI inference chip, small VLMs, and AI agent job posting
Feb 21, 2025
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What is all the hype around Deep Research? In episode 43 of Mixture of
Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Volkmar Uhlig and
Shobhit Varshney. This week, we discuss reasoning model features coming
out of companies like OpenAI’s Deep Research, Google Gemini, Perplexity,
xAI’s Grok-3 and more! Next, OpenAI is rumored to release an inference
chip, but how likely is this to be a success in the AI chip game? Then,
we analyze the capabilities of small vision-language models (VLMs).
Finally, a startup, Firecrawl, released a job posting in search of an AI
agent. Is this the future for AI tools in the workforce? Tune-in to
today’s Mixture of Experts to find out. 00:01 – Intro 00:35 – Deep Research 11:58 – OpenAI inference chip 22:17 – Small VLMs 32:31 – AI agent job posting The
opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants
and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other
organization or entity.
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