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 - Sep 11 - SeeDream 4, Lucy 14B, ChatGPT gets MCP, OpenAI $300B deal with Oracle, Qwen Next A3B & more AI news

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OpenAI's reported $300 billion Oracle deal starts at about $60 billion per year from 2027.

1. ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week centers on the September 11 roundup of models, tools, and deals. 2. Alex Volkov hosts from Seattle with Wolfram Ravenwolf, Yam Peleg, LDJ, and Nisten as the weekly panel. 3. The episode exists to compress one week of AI releases into a TLDR that covers open source, APIs, images, audio, and tools. 4. Baidu's Ernie 4.5 appears as a 21B parameter MoE model with 3B active parameters and a 128K context window. 5. The hosts compare Ernie 4.5 with DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-OSS while discussing its reasoning, coding, and tool-use claims. 6. MBZUAI's K2 Think is described as a 32B parameter fine-tune of Qwen 2.5 with RL and SFT training. 7. Yam highlights Salesforce Research deep research fine-tuning, which uses sequential tool usage and length-normalized RL. 8. The panel says that approach can beat O3, O4-mini, and a Quen-based researcher on deep research tasks. 9. OpenAI adds full MCP support to ChatGPT through developer mode, and the hosts say they will show how to enable it. 10. Anthropic Claude is said to have fixed degraded performance bugs and added file creation and editing in the Claude UI. 11. The commercial news section covers the reported OpenAI and Oracle deal valued at $300 billion. 12. The hosts say the agreement starts in 2027 and implies about $60 billion per year for five years of compute. 13. Larry Ellison's move to the top of the billionaire rankings is tied directly to that Oracle announcement. 14. In the open-source and model updates, Kimi K2-0905 doubles context length from 128K to 256K. 15. Wolfram says that larger context makes Kimi K2 more useful for agentic coding work. 16. Tencent Hunyuan Image 2.1 gets attention for native 2K text-to-image generation and long prompts up to 1,000 tokens. 17. The episode's tone is fast and collaborative, with hosts interrupting, comparing notes, and reacting live to release announcements. 18. The format mixes news reading, live demo commentary, and practical setup guidance rather than a formal interview. 19. Listeners tracking weekly AI releases, model benchmarks, and product launches would fit this episode. 20. People wanting a single-topic deep dive or a slow narrative arc may skip it.

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A brisk AI news desk mixes weekly updates, a live image test, and license fine print into a dense scan.

ThursdAI frames the week in AI as a live news desk, with Alex Volkov in Seattle and co-hosts Wolfram and Yam setting up a quick TLDR before the updates begin.

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