What’s new in AI models? In episode 75 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Kate Soule and Kush Varshney to debrief a frenzy of model drops this week. IBM debuts Granite 4.0 hyper-efficient hybrid models, Claude Sonnet 4.5 delivers longer run times and sharper reasoning and Sora 2 takes vibe coding to the next level with vibe video production. Then, we dig into OpenAI’s new feature, Buy in ChatGPT. Finally, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we are joined by special guest, Matt Kosinski, host of the Security Intelligence podcast—can you trust your AI? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out.

00:00 – Intro

1:17 – Meta Ads assistant, DoorDash Dot, Microsoft vibe working and Tilly AI Actor

2:23 – Granite 4.0

10:21 – Claude 4.5

17:57 – Sora 2

29:15 – Buy in ChatGPT

37: 00 – Introducing Security Intelligence

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.

Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 

Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

Watch the latest episode of the Security Intelligence podcast → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDpUZD1ogEE&list=PLOspHqNVtKABGIbaWP1xYQHbwuXjZwqpH&index=1&t=225s 

Why did NVIDIA invest USD100bn into OpenAI? In episode 74 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Sandi Besen, Mihai Criveti and Gabe Goodhart to talk about the AI chipmaker’s next big move. Next, we analyze Tongyi DeepResearch and get into a conversation around open source. Then, Google released a new agent protocol, AP2. After that, will AI take over? We debrief a new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Finally, Apple shared that the new AirPods will have a translation feature powered by AI. Is Apple back in the game? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out. 

00:00 – Intro 

01:17 – OpenAI's data centers, Alibaba and NVIDIA partnership, IBM Granite Docling and Meta's dating AI assistant

02:23 – Tongyi DeepResearch 

13:12 – Google's AP2 

23:31 – "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" 

33:50 – AirPods translation feature 

43:49 – NVIDIA invests USD100bn in OpenAI 

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. 

Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 

Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

What are the most common uses of ChatGPT? In episode 73 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Lauren McHugh, Martin Keen and Aaron Baughman to talk about a new report, How People Use ChatGPT. Next, Anthropic released an updated version of their economic index. Then, another paper, this one coming out of DeepMind on agent economies. How likely is this? Finally, how practical are AI wearables and what does a future with them look like? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:10 – News: Alphabet Inc. $3 Trillion Market Cap, AI could boost trade value and the animal internet 

2:04 – How People Use ChatGPT 

15:47 – Anthropic Economic Index 

25:50 – Virtual Agent Economies 

35:36 – AlterEgo 

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. 

• Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

Do we need more AI hallucinations? In episode 72 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Chris Hay and Skyler Speakman to talk about OpenAI’s paper, Why language models hallucinate. Next, in March 2025, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, predicted that AI will be writing 90% of code for software developers. How is that turning out? Then, is AI making the job market hell? Finally, you can now run an LLM on a circuit board the size of a business card. Where does that take us? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:18 – Oracle, data center construction, iPhone 17 and tech saint 

3:03 – Why language models hallucinate 

15:59 – Dario Amodei’s prediction 

22:45 – Job market is hell 

29:57 – LLM on a business card 

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. 

Are browsers the right entry point for AI tools? In episode 71 of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Mihai Criveti to talk about the verdict in the Google antitrust case and what it means for agentic AI. Next, as Anthropic raised  $13 billion in a recent funding round, bringing its valuation to $183 billion, we discuss investment in AI startups. Finally, the discourse on GPT-5 and AI model innovation created “AI winter.” What does this mean for the future of AI innovation? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:38 – Safer GPT, IBM and AMD, Amazon Lens Live and AI and Starbucks 

2:59 – Google antitrust 

27:08 – Anthropic and AI valuation 

41:42 – AI winter 

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. 

• Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

Would you trust a 100-page prompt to do your taxes? In episode 70 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Aaron Baughman, Chris Hay and Lauren McHugh to talk about KPMG’s 100-page prompt they used to build their agentic TaxBot. Next, we debrief on OpenAI’s teasing of selling infrastructure in the future. The image model generation goes bananas, with the latest AI Image Model from Gemini: nano-banana. Finally, Aaron Baughman demonstrated three new features for the US Open website, powered by IBM watsonx-built generative AI models: Match Chat, Key Points, and Live Likelihood to Win. All that and more on today’s 70th episode of Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Intro 

3:05 – KPMG’s monster prompt  

16:37 – OpenAI’s infra for sale? 

25:10 – Gemini's nano-banana 

35:11 – US Open experimentations  

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. 

• Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 
• US Open powered by IBM Watsonx  https://www.ibm.com/sports/usopen 

Is enterprise AI in danger? In episode 69 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Marina Danilevsky, Nathalie Baracaldo and Sandi Besen to debrief MIT’s report on gen AI pilots. Next, GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt? Then, we revisit the conversation about chain of thought (CoT) reasoning with our researchers. Are large reasoning models not thinking straight? Finally, Anthropic announced Claude will close down "distressing” conversations and we debate AI welfare. All that and more on today’s episode of Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:13 – US Open, Meta restructuring Superintelligence lab and Robot Olympics 

3:11 – Gen AI pilots fail 

11:09 – GPT-5's hidden prompt revealed 

22:47 – Reasoning model flaws 

33:55 – Claude closing chats 

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. 

• Subscribe to the Think newsletter → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

Would you sell Chrome for USD 34.5 billion dollars? In episode 68 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Sophie Kuijt and Shobhit Varshney for another packed week in AI. First, AI startup Perplexity puts out a bid for Google Chrome at over double their valuation. Why? Next, xAI released Grok Imagine and claims it will be the next Vine. Our experts analyze the future of AI video generation. Finally, one week after the GPT-5 release and skeptics are saying it did not live up to the hype. Is AI development plateauing? All that and more on Mixture of Experts!

00:00 – Intro

01:17 – MoE News: NVIDIA H20s, Apple AI devices, AI people pleasers and Google DeepMind’s bioacoustics model

02:40 – Perplexity’s USD 34.5B bid

12:10 – Grok Imagine

24:23 – GPT-5 check-in

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.

• Subscribe to the Think Newsletter → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

Is GPT-5 better at code than Claude Opus 4.1? In this bonus episode of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Mihai Criveti and Chris Hay to analyze OpenAI’s new release. Our experts dove into the new models and compared them with their favorites. In today’s special episode, we dive into the news, impacts on the industry and even share a demo. Can GPT-5 outperform Claude Opus 4.1? All that and more on today’s episode of Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 – Intro 

1:26 -- GPT-5 is here 

13:43 -- Are we closer to AGI? 

20:50 -- Demo:  Opus 4.1 vs. GPT-5 

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. 

• Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts 

OpenAI goes open-weight?  In episode 67 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Chris Hay and Bruno Aziza to debrief OpenAI’s release of gpt-oss, their new open-source models. Next, the model releases continue as Google DeepMind dropped Genie 3. Our experts analyze the various AI model performance. Then, there’s been some drama surrounding the pricing of Claude Code. We’ll discuss where Anthropic landed and what it means. Finally, Mark Zuckerberg shared a new essay on Personal Superintelligence. Our experts take us through what superintelligence looks like across the major AI players. All that and more on today’s episode of Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 -- Intro 

01:20 -- Gpt-oss 

12:26 -- Genie 3 

22:12 -- Claude pricing 

33:04 -- Zuckerberg on Personal Superintelligence  

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. 

• Subscribe for AI updates → https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 
• Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence 
• Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts