Will AI agents run all businesses? In episode 62 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kush Varshney and Marina Danilevsky to debrief Anthropic’s Project Vend. Next, do we still need massive data centers? We analyze DiLoCoX and discuss the possibility of distributed model training. Then, the New York Times released an article discussing how computer science education has changed in the era of AI; should people still study computer science? Finally, is the paper review process broken? And is it AI’s fault? All that and more on today’s episode of Mixture of Experts.

00:00 – Intro
01:07 -- Anthropic’s Project Vend
13:38 -- DiLoCoX
25:56 -- Computer science education
40:57 -- AI prompts in papers

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"In episode 61 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Gabe Goodhart and, joining us for the first time, Ann Funai. First up, a new paper from MIT: “Your brain on ChatGPT”. Are we using AI and LLMs to augment our intelligence, or are we becoming optimally lazy? Next, our experts explore the surprising evolution of autonomous vehicles: they are driving more aggressively, and the results might actually be... safer? Finally, a conversation about AI-generated ads, AI-video generation and the risks that come with them.
00:00 – Intro
01:11 – Your brain on ChatGPT
13:38 – Safer autonomous vehicles?
24:39 – AI-generated ads
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Could AI take your job? In episode 60 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim

Hwang is joined by Phaedra Boinodiris, Chris Hay and Volkmar Uhlig.

First, the impact of AI on the job market is all the rage online.

Between the Godfather of AI revealing which jobs he feels are safe, and

Jensen Huang responding to Dario Amodei’s thoughts, our experts analyze

the chatter. Next, Scale AI is facing some fallout. What can we learn

about data security? Then, an article from the New York Times details

how chatbots can take users down “conspiratorial rabbit holes,” Who is

benefitting from these conversations? Finally, how is AI affecting the

startup ecosystem?Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out!

00:00 – Intro

01:17 -- AI and jobs

12:28 -- Scale AI fallout

22:00 -- Chatbot conspiracies

35:20 -- AI startup ecosystem

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organization or entity.

Did Apple’s WWDC 2025 live up to expectations? In episode 59 of Mixture

of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Magrahoui

and Shobhit Varshney. Today, the experts analyze all things Apple—from

Apple Research’s recent paperThe Illusion of Thinking to Apple

Intelligence. Next, OpenAI released o3-pro: we continue the analysis on

AI reasoning. Then, Meta purchased Scale AI for a whopping $15 billion.

Why? Finally, an exciting new announcement on fault-tolerant quantum

computing: IBM Quantum Starling will arrive by 2029. What does this mean

and why should we care? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of

Experts.

00:01 – Intro

01:58 -- Apple's WWDC

16:47 -- OpenAI o3-pro

30:43 -- Meta & Scale AI's "superintelligence" lab

37:56 -- Fault-tolerant quantum computing


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Is open source winning the AI race? In episode 58 of Mixture of Experts,

host Tim Hwang is joined by Anthony Annunziata, Ash Minhas and Sarah

Amos live from New York Tech Week. First, we dive into the various

themes coming out of NY Tech Week, specifically practical uses of AI.

Next, we analyze a couple of different reports about the impact of open

source on AI. Finally, Claude 4 has some really weird behaviors. What

does this teach us about AI safety and model development? All that and

more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.

00:01 -- Intro

01:09 -- New York Tech Week 2025

11:36 -- Open source AI reports

31:33 -- Weird behaviors from Claude 4

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Claude 4’s system prompt leaked? In episode 57 of Mixture of Experts,

host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kate Soule and Aaron Baughman to

debrief a hectic week in AI. First, Anthropic’s system prompt for

Claude 4 was leaked; what stuck out to our experts? Then, Rick Rubin and

Anthropic are vibe coding? We debrief “The Way of Code.” Next, OpenAI

paid $6.5 billion for Jony Ive’s company, LoveFrom . Finally, Microsoft

theorizes the development of “agent factories”. Is there a “winner takes

all” in the AI agent's space? Tune in to this week’s Mixture of

Experts for more!


00:01 – Intro

00:51 -- Claude 4 system prompt

13:23 -- The Way of Code

23:03 -- Jony Ive and OpenAI

32:30 -- Microsoft’s “agent factory”


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How long until Anthropic drops Claude 5.0? On today’s bonus episode of Mixture of Experts, guest host Bryan Casey is joined by Chris Hay, Marina Danilevsky and Shobhit Varshney to analyze the newly released Claude 4.0 family: Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. What do we know about the model architecture vs. What is speculation? In this special episode we talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and the rest of the competition in the AI race! Who will win? Tune-in to this bonus Mixture of Experts for more!



00:01 – Intro

00:32 – Claude 4.0

12:48 – OpenAI and Jony Ives

22:27 – Anthropic full-stack



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Should you pay for Google’s AI Ultra subscription plan? In episode 56 of

Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Gabe

Goodhart and Marina Danilevsky to debrief the announcements from Google

I/O 2025. Next, RedHat dropped llm-d, a Kubernetes-native distributed

inference serving stack; what is it and why does it matter? Then, we

analyze Microsoft’s NLWeb: is everything becoming conversational?

Finally, Stack Overflow has been on a decline. Is AI to blame? Find out

more on this week’s Mixture of Experts!

00:01 – Intro

00:52 --Google I/O 2025 announcements

11:36 -- Stack Overflow

22:04 -- llm-d

30:08 -- NLWeb

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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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and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other

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