Can Mistral make Europe a global AI contender? In episode 55 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Volkmar Uhlig and Kaoutar El Maghraoui to discuss the drop of Mistral Medium 3. Next, we analyze the AI chip sales both NVIDIA and AMD made to Saudi Arabia. Then, with IBM’s new ITBench and OpenAI’s HealthBench, we dive deeper into benchmarks for AI evaluation. Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts for more! 

00:01 – Intro 

00:47 -- Mistral Medium 3 

12:26 -- AI chips to Saudi Arabia 

21:21 -- AI evaluation benchmarks 

31:47 -- Amazon's AI-generated pause ads 

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Has AI hallucination gotten out of control? In episode 54 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Skyler Speakman and Kaoutar El Maghraoui to analyze reasoning models and rising hallucinations. Next, as IBM Think 2025 wraps, the experts unpack the biggest highlights from IBM’s biggest show of the year: new AI agents, Ferraris and ... penguins? Then, OpenAI is making moves with its acquisition of Windsurf. What does this mean? Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts for more! 

00:01 – Intro 

01:12 – IBM Think 2025 

09:27 – Reasoning models and hallucinations 

19:23 – OpenAI Windsurf acquisition 

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We are celebrating MoE podcast’s one year anniversary! In episode 53 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by the O.G. panel of experts from our pilot—Chris Hay, Shobhit Varshney and Kush Varshney. This week, we cover some exciting announcements at LlamaCon. Then, we discuss some new Chinese AI models from Qwen3 to the rumored DeepSeek-R2. Next, J.P. Morgan’s CISO, Patrick Opet, released “An open letter to our third-party suppliers,” covering the need for AI security. Are we doomed? Finally, we look back at some of the topics we discussed in episode 1—the Rabbit AI device, GPT-2 chatbot, Apple Intelligence—after all that, who was the first person to say “agents” on the podcast?  Tune in to find out, on today’s one-year celebration of Mixture of Experts. 

00:00 -- Intro

00:38 -- LlamaCon

10:34 -- Qwen3 and DeepSeek-R2

23:23 -- J.P. Morgan’s open letter 

39:45 -- One year of MoE

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Is OpenAI going to enter the social media game? In episode 52 of Mixture of Experts host, Tim Hwang is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kate Soule and Marina Danilevsky. First, Sam Altman is rumored to be testing an internal prototype social network; why is this a potential next move for the AI giant? Next, for our paper of the week, we analyze Anthropic’s study on chain-of-thought reasoning, “Reasoning Models Don’t Always Say What They Think.” Then, AI scraping puts a strain on Wikimedia; what’s the impact of this? Finally, China held a humanoid robot half-marathon, where humans raced alongside robot competitors. Who wins this AI race? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts. 

00:41 -- OpenAI social network 

10:02 -- Anthropic’s reasoning study 

20:56 -- AI bots strain Wikimedia 

31:33 -- Humanoid half-marathon 

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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 

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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 

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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

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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

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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 

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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  

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