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Happy second birthday to ThursdAI, your favorite weekly AI news show! Can you believe it's been two whole years since we jumped into that random Twitter Space to rant about GPT-4? From humble beginnings as a late-night Twitter chat to a full-blown podcast, Newsletter and YouTube show with hundreds of thousands of downloads, it's been an absolutely wild ride!

That's right, two whole years of me, Alex Volkov, your friendly AI Evangelist, along with my amazing co-hosts, trying to keep you up-to-date on the breakneck speed of the AI world

And what better way to celebrate than with a week PACKED with insane AI news? Buckle up, folks, because this week Google went OPEN SOURCE crazy, Gemini got even cooler, OpenAI created a whole new Agents SDK and the open-source community continues to blow our minds. We’ve got it all - from game-changing model releases to mind-bending demos.

This week I'm also on the Weights & Biases company retreat, so TL;DR first and then the newsletter, but honestly, I'll start embedding the live show here in the substack from now on, because we're getting so good at it, I barely have to edit lately and there's a LOT to show you guys!

TL;DR and Show Notes & Links

* Hosts & Guests

* Alex Volkov - AI Eveangelist & Weights & Biases (@altryne)

* Co Hosts - @WolframRvnwlf @ldjconfirmed @nisten

* Sandra Kublik - DevRel at Cohere (@itsSandraKublik)

* Open Source LLMs

* Google open sources Gemma 3 - 1B - 27B - 128K context (Blog, AI Studio, HF)

* EuroBERT - multilingual encoder models (210M to 2.1B params)

* Reka Flash 3 (reasoning) 21B parameters is open sourced (Blog, HF)

* Cohere Command A 111B model - 256K context (Blog)

* Nous Research Deep Hermes 24B / 3B Hybrid Reasoners (X, HF)

* AllenAI OLMo 2 32B - fully open source GPT4 level model (X, Blog, Try It)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Gemini Flash generates images natively (X, AI Studio)

* Google deep research is now free in Gemini app and powered by Gemini Thinking (Try It no cost)

* OpenAI released new responses API, Web Search, File search and Computer USE tools (X, Blog)

* This weeks Buzz

* The whole company is at an offsite at oceanside, CA

* W&B internal MCP hackathon and had