Models & Agents

Models & Agents

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Models & Agents episodes

  • Ep 95: The week's biggest developments, pulled together — what actually moved, why it matters, and what to watch next.
    Models & Agents — Weekly Recap (Week of June 28, 2026)
    Pull up a chair, this is Models and Agents, episode 95, for June 28, 2026. Let's see what happened in the AI world today. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    3:05 Practical & Community
    9:24 Under the Hood
    10:44 Tomorrow Teaser
    10:56 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    🎬 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sdadppZU58
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min
  • Ep 94: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family launches in limited preview, giving builders three new tiers for balancing capability, speed, and cost under tighter government oversight.
    Models & Agents
    OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family launches in limited preview, giving builders three new tiers for balancing capability, speed, and cost under tighter government oversight.
    What You Need to Know: OpenAI released the GPT-5.6 series (Sol flagship, Terra balanced, Luna efficient) with a robust safety stack and 750 tokens/sec inference planned for July, but only to a small set of vetted partners initially. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    2:10 All three models carry a High cyber-risk classification…
    4:10 The agent operates directly on user accounts for trade…
    5:27 Under the Hood
    7:54 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    🎬 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2basGHRTNQ
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    10 min
  • Ep 93: OpenAI's internal rollout shows agents handling complex, cross-functional work at scale, giving builders an early view of what production agent systems will soon need to match.
    Models & Agents
    OpenAI's internal rollout shows agents handling complex, cross-functional work at scale, giving builders an early view of what production agent systems will soon need to match.
    What You Need to Know: OpenAI reports Codex agents are already doing longer-running, cross-team tasks across every department. YesWeHack launched autonomous agents for on-demand penetration testing. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    7:23 Practical & Community
    8:32 Under the Hood
    11:28 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    🎬 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKaPyofA4k
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min
  • Ep 92: GPT-5.5 Instant now handles intent and constraints more reliably while rolling out to all users this week.
    Models & Agents
    GPT-5.5 Instant now handles intent and constraints more reliably while rolling out to all users this week.
    What You Need to Know: OpenAI released an updated GPT-5.5 Instant that improves intent understanding, complex constraint handling, and recommendation quality. OpenAI also announced its first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, built with Broadcom for ChatGPT and agent workloads. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    2:26 The move expands Open A I’s stack from models to silicon…
    4:30 The framework measures game progress plus world knowledge…
    6:31 The author built a frozen two hundred forty-task eval set…
    8:42 Under the Hood
    11:22 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min
  • Ep 91: Claude now joins teams as a persistent, org-wide Slack entity—the third major shift in LLM interaction after websites and desktop apps.
    Models & Agents
    Claude now joins teams as a persistent, org-wide Slack entity—the third major shift in LLM interaction after websites and desktop apps.
    What You Need to Know: DFlash delivers up to 15x throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell by drafting whole token blocks in parallel instead of autoregressive token-by-token generation. Qwen released two new AgentWorld MoE models trained to simulate tool, terminal, and GUI environments rather than chat directly. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    1:11 Top Story
    3:29 Practical & Community
    8:18 Under the Hood
    11:10 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min
  • Ep 90: OpenAI just shipped a full cyber defense stack—GPT-5.5-Cyber plus Codex Security and Patch the Planet—so defenders can now scan, validate, and patch at machine speed inside existing workflows.
    Models & Agents
    OpenAI just shipped a full cyber defense stack—GPT-5.5-Cyber plus Codex Security and Patch the Planet—so defenders can now scan, validate, and patch at machine speed inside existing workflows.
    What You Need to Know: OpenAI expanded Daybreak with a dedicated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, Codex Security plugin for Codex, and the Patch the Planet program for open-source maintainers. Alibaba released HappyHorse 1.1, a 15B unified video model now ranked #2 globally. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    2:23 The upgrade is available now through the Alibaba Cloud…
    4:42 Developers wanting a lightweight alternative to heavier…
    6:46 Researchers tracking SOTA should visit the…
    6:57 Under the Hood
    9:50 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    11 min
  • Ep 89: Open-weight GLM-5.2 is drawing Silicon Valley attention as Chinese labs close the capability gap with a new publicly available model.
    Models & Agents
    Open-weight GLM-5.2 is drawing Silicon Valley attention as Chinese labs close the capability gap with a new publicly available model.
    What You Need to Know: GLM-5.2 arrives as the latest open-weight release from a Chinese startup, with early reports highlighting strong performance that has caught the eye of Western labs. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    2:23 This open-weight release continues the steady narrowing of…
    4:24 The v4 release candidate folds the previously separate…
    6:31 Further GLM-5.2 fine-tunes and inference optimizations are…
    6:49 Under the Hood
    8:27 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    10 min
  • Ep 88: The week's biggest developments, pulled together — what actually moved, why it matters, and what to watch next.
    Models & Agents — Weekly Recap (Week of June 21, 2026)
    Welcome back to Models and Agents, episode 88, for June 21, 2026. There's signal and noise in AI every day. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    3:38 Practical & Community
    9:39 Tomorrow Teaser
    9:52 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    11 min
  • Ep 87: Virtuals just wired Leyten’s distributed GPU engine into its agent network to run GLM-5.2 at scale.
    Models & Agents
    Virtuals just wired Leyten’s distributed GPU engine into its agent network to run GLM-5.2 at scale.
    What You Need to Know: Virtuals’ integration lets agents tap GLM-5.2 across a distributed GPU fabric. A major security report details active exploits against Langflow and related frameworks. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    8:33 Practical & Community
    9:50 Under the Hood
    12:05 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min
  • Ep 86: Custom CUDA kernels now keep vector search inside the GPU for agentic RAG, cutting PCIe round-trips that silently throttle long-horizon agents.
    Models & Agents
    Custom CUDA kernels now keep vector search inside the GPU for agentic RAG, cutting PCIe round-trips that silently throttle long-horizon agents.
    What You Need to Know: OpenAI reports GPT-5.5 Instant now matches its frontier models on health queries for free users. A new GPU-resident Top-K kernel delivers deterministic microsecond tail latencies for retrieval. ...
    Chapters:
    0:00 Intro
    0:20 Introduction
    1:29 Top Story
    2:40 Model Updates
    4:38 Agent & Tool Developments
    7:11 Practical & Community
    9:02 Under the Hood
    10:34 Things to Try
    11:24 On the Horizon
    11:48 Tomorrow Teaser
    11:58 Closing
    AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
    📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
    🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.
    13 min

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