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Hey folks, Alex here, back with another ThursdAI recap – and let me tell you, this week's episode was a whirlwind of open-source goodness, mind-bending inference techniques, and a whole lotta talk about talking AIs! We dove deep into the world of LLMs, from Alibaba's massive Qwen 2.5 drop to the quirky, real-time reactions of Moshi.

We even got a sneak peek at Nous Research's ambitious new project, Forge, which promises to unlock some serious LLM potential. So grab your pumpkin spice latte (it's that time again isn't it? 🍁) settle in, and let's recap the AI awesomeness that went down on ThursdAI, September 19th!

ThursdAI is brought to you (as always) by Weights & Biases, we still have a few spots left in our Hackathon this weekend and our new advanced RAG course is now released and is FREE to sign up!

TL;DR of all topics + show notes and links

* Open Source LLMs

* Alibaba Qwen 2.5 models drop + Qwen 2.5 Math and Qwen 2.5 Code (X, HF, Blog, Try It)

* Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B is running on a 4 year old phone (Nisten)

* KyutAI open sources Moshi & Mimi (Moshiko & Moshika) - end to end voice chat model (X, HF, Paper)

* Microsoft releases GRIN-MoE - tiny (6.6B active) MoE with 79.4 MMLU (X, HF, GIthub)

* Nvidia - announces NVLM 1.0 - frontier class multimodal LLMS (no weights yet, X)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* OpenAI O1 results from LMsys do NOT disappoint - vibe checks also confirm, new KING llm in town (Thread)

* NousResearch announces Forge in waitlist - their MCTS enabled inference product (X)

* This weeks Buzz - everything Weights & Biases related this week

* Judgement Day (hackathon) is in 2 days! Still places to come hack with us Sign up

* Our new RAG Course is live - learn all about advanced RAG from WandB, Cohere and Weaviate (sign up for free)

* Vision & Video

* Youtube announces DreamScreen - generative AI image and video in youtube shorts ( Blog)

* CogVideoX-5B-I2V - leading open source img2video model (X, HF)

* Runway, DreamMachine & Kling all announce text-2-video over API (Runway, DreamMachine)