ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week · 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

📆 ThursdAI - Jan 29 - Genie3 is here, Clawd rebrands, Kimi K2.5 surprises, Chrome goes agentic & more AI news

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Genie 3 turns a prompt into a controllable world for about one minute.

1. ThursdAI - Jan 29 centers on the week's AI releases, with Alex Volkov hosting live from San Francisco alongside Wolfram and LJ. 2. Alex Volkov says he is "an AI adventurer with Weights & Biases," while Wolfram and LJ join as on-air panelists with different model preferences and product opinions. 3. The episode asks what changed in AI this week, using open-source releases, Google demos, and product rebrands as the organizing question. 4. The first major thread is Claude Code's rebrand from "Cloudbot" to "Malt Bot," after Anthropic asked Peter Steiner's open-source system to change the name. 5. The panel links that rename to Discord drama, a 3 a.m. reaction, and the practical problem that "Malt Bot" is harder to say than the old name. 6. Cursor sponsors the San Francisco hackathon with $300 in credits per participant, plus Redis and Browserbase support for building agents. 7. Moonshot's Kimi K 2.5 gets the strongest open-source attention, and the panel calls out its agentic use, coding ability, and multilingual behavior in German. 8. Wolfram describes Kimi K 2.5 as a one-trillion-parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters, 384 experts, and 256K context length. 9. The hosts compare Kimi's pricing of 60 cents per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens with Anthropic Opus pricing. 10. Google's Genie 3 becomes the biggest product demo, with Alex controlling a felt snail world and an underwater lobster world in real time. 11. The demo includes collision, camera motion, one-minute persistence, and a note that the system is available only to U.S. Ultra subscribers. 12. Alex says Genie 3 uses a remote controller and that the Gemini team showed him how researchers can animate children's drawings and pet photos into playable worlds. 13. The panel says Genie 3 can continue from Veo video and can support SIMA 2, Google's self-improving game-playing agent. 14. RCIAI's Trinity Large appears as a 400B sparse MoE model with 13B active parameters, 17 trillion training tokens, and 512K native context. 15. The hosts note that Trinity Large is free on OpenRouter until February 2026 and may run faster than Kimi 2.5 because of its lower active-parameter count. 16. The episode also covers XAI's Grok image-to-video API, Nvidia's PersonaPlex 7B voice model, and TNG and Tencent image editors. 17. The tone stays fast, live, and reaction-driven, with Alex repeatedly switching between slides, demos, and audience prompts. 18. The format mixes news rundown, technical breakdown, and screen-shared product demos rather than a single interview arc. 19. People following open-source models, agentic tools, and Google research would get the most from it. 20. People wanting a polished, tightly edited interview or one-topic deep dive might skip it.

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A fast, detail-heavy AI news tour that moves from Claude talk to persistent virtual worlds and open-source model specifics.

The January 29 edition of Thursday Eye frames the AI week as a crowded collision of product news, model releases, and speculative futures. The host moves quickly through breaking updates, Claude and Claudebot banter, and open-source developments, then lands on the episode's most…

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