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📆 ThursdAI - Sep 18 - Gpt-5-Codex, OAI wins ICPC, Reve, ARC-AGI SOTA Interview, Meta AI Glasses & more AI news

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Codex is pulling users back from Claude Code, and OpenAI even throttled usage after demand spiked.

1. ThursdAI’s September 18 episode focuses on a busy week of AI releases, product demos, and benchmark claims. 2. Host Alex Volkov, described as an AI Adventurist with Weights and Biases from CoreWeave, leads the show with co-host Wolfram. 3. The episode asks what matters most in a week that includes GPT-5 Codex, Meta AI glasses, Mistral Magistral 1.2, and Tongi Deep Research. 4. Mistral’s Magistral Small 1.2 is presented as the open-source release, while Magistral Medium 1.2 is API-only for now. 5. The hosts say Magistral Small is Apache-licensed, multimodal, and about 15% better on math and coding benchmarks such as AIME and LiveCodeBench. 6. Tencent’s SRPO is described as semantic relative preference optimization for diffusion model fine-tuning. 7. The hosts say SRPO can fine-tune a diffusion model in about 10 minutes using fewer than 1,500 images. 8. World Labs Marble is discussed as a 3D generation demo that can turn images into splats and exploreable scenes. 9. Revi is introduced as a new visual editing platform with drag-and-drop object manipulation and image editing tools. 10. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Codex is described as a GPT-5 fine-tune for coding, with users moving from Claude Code toward Codex CLI and extensions. 11. The hosts mention that OpenAI temporarily slowed GPT-5 Codex after demand outpaced GPU capacity. 12. GPT-5’s perfect 12/12 score at ICPC World Finals is framed as a major coding milestone against a highly competitive university programming contest. 13. Alex and Wolfram say no non-human had previously achieved that score in their discussion of the result. 14. Meta Connect is presented as the week’s hardware story, with new AI glasses and the Neural Band wrist controller. 15. Wolfram calls the new glasses the most exciting interface shift and says he signed up for a demo because they are not yet sold directly. 16. Tongi Deep Research is described as a 30B-total, 3B-active open-source web agent that claims strong benchmark results against OpenAI Deep Research. 17. The episode’s tone is fast, improvisational, and organized around a TLDR section that lets the hosts move through many releases quickly. 18. The format mixes short news summaries, live reactions, and later deeper dives into a few selected topics. 19. Listeners following AI model releases, coding tools, and hardware launches would get the most value from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a single-topic deep dive or a short runtime would probably skip it.

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A fast September 18 AI roundup that keeps the hype tied to concrete details.

Thursday Eye's September 18 episode plays like a brisk AI briefing, moving quickly from the summer lull into a busier fall stretch of model chatter, image and video tools, Meta glasses, and benchmark talk.

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Catch up on a busy AI week that feels like fall chaos.

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