Welcome to the Mixture of Experts podcast, your weekly breakdown of AI industry news. Host, Tim Hwang, sits down with a world-class panel of engineers, researchers, product leaders and more, who help to dissect the AI news from the AI noise.
From breakthrough research to practical applications, each episode offers a balanced blend of expert analysis and opinions on where the industry is headed. Explore how AI is reshaping the enterprise, driving efficiency and unlocking new opportunities for growth. Whether you're a seasoned professional seeking to stay ahead of the curve or an enthusiast curious about the future of technology, Mixture of Experts delivers both insights and practical knowledge.
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- Episode 38: Anthropic valuation rumors, Microsoft CoreAI, NotebookLM upgrades, and AI agents in finance
- Episode 37: CES 2025, NVIDIA DIGITS, Apple Intelligence fails and Sam Altman’s reflections
- Episode 36: OpenAI o3, DeepSeek-V3 and the Brundage/Marcus AI bet
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What would you do with $2 billion? In episode 38 of Mixture of Experts, we discuss the Anthropic valuation rumors, CoreAI, NotebookLM upgrades, and AI agents within the financial services industry.
What’s the most exciting CES AI announcement? In episode 37 of Mixture of Experts, we discuss CES 2025, NVIDIA DIGITS, Apple Intelligence fails, Sam Altman’s reflection blog and the challenges facing enterprise AI developers.
Is deep learning hitting a wall? It’s 2025 and the Mixture of Experts is back and better than ever. In episode 36, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kate Soule and Kush Varshney to discuss OpenAI o3, DeepSeek-V3 and the Brundage/Marcus AI bet.
Will 2025 be the year of AI agents? In episode 35 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by some show veterans to debrief 2024 in AI and make predictions for 2025.
Is pretraining a thing of the past? In episode 34 of Mixture of Experts, we cover IBM Granite 3.1, NVIDIA Jetson, stealing AI models and more! Tune in to this episode to hear the latest AI news.
Is o1 Pro worth the cost? In episode 33 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Marina Danilevsky, Kate Soule and Vyoma Gajjar. In this episode, we cover 12 Days of Open AI, NeurIPS, ARC Prize and Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B release!
What’s the mystery behind the name ChatGPT refuses to discuss? In episode 32 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang joins Aaron Baughman, Vagner Figueredo de Santana and Shobhit Varshney to chat about AWS re:Invent 2024, LLM Flowbreaking and David Mayer, a name that breaks ChatGPT.
How much future learning will be done with an AI assistant? In episode 31 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Phaedra Boinodiris, Marina Danilevsky and Skyler Speakman for the AI in education special episode!
Should your AI assistant remember everything about you? In episode 30 of Mixture of Experts, we cover “near-infinite memory,” Microsoft Ignite, FrontierMath and AlphaFold3
Is 2024 the year scaling AI officially breaks? In episode 29 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Anthony Annunziata, Kate Soule and Naveen Rao. The experts chat scaling AI, agents and the race to AGI.
Could AI wipe out software engineers? In episode 28 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Shobhit Varshney to discuss updates from the GitHub Octoverse, SearchGPT and Big Sleep!
Agents, agents, and more agents! In episode 27 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Volkmar Uhlig and Vyoma Gajjar to discuss Google’s AI-generated text watermarks. They also discuss AI energy consumption, Anthropic’s release of computer use and the future of AI agents.
Can chat replace search? In episode 26 of Mixture of Experts, for IBM TechXchange week, our experts discuss IBM Granite™ 3.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model and Perplexity’s recent fundraising efforts.
Can AI solve infectious disease? In episode 25 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Maya Murad and Ruben Boonen to chat about Machines of Loving Grace, AI and elections, Entropix and GSM8K.
Could AI win a Nobel Prize in the future? In episode 24 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay and Edward Calvesbert to chat about AI in the Nobels, DGX B200 and all things unstructured data.
Will DeepDive replace the Mixture of Experts podcast? In episode 23 our experts discuss Google’s NotebookLM, OpenAI DevDay 2024 announcements and the IBM X-Force® Cloud Threat Landscape Report.
Will prompt engineering ever die? Today, the experts chat about the future of prompt engineering, a new paper released about The AI Scientist, NEO 1X’s humanoid robot and OpenAI’s in-house AI chips.
Can Apple Intelligence compete with the AI market offerings? In episode 20 of Mixture of Experts, we chat about Apple Intelligence, the performance of Reflection’s 70B and a new paper released on LLMs generating novel research ideas.
Strawberry is officially here! In episode 21 of Mixture of Experts we talk about the OpenAI o1-preview, Agentforce by Salesforce, AI powered fantasy football insights and machine unlearning.
Meta releases Llama 3.2! In episode 22 of Mixture of Experts, our panelists analyze the capabilities of Llama 3.2 and lightweight (1B/3B) models, the “AI Snake Oil” book release, and the impacts of gen AI on sustainability.
Meta releases SAM 2! In episode 14 of Mixture of Experts, we discuss SAM 2, friend.com, gen AI project abandonment and more. Tune in for the latest in AI.
Is it an AI bubble? Today, the experts chat about the stock market crash, OpenAI’s Structured Outputs release and Google’s character.ai “acquisition.” Tune in for the break down of what’s happening in AI news.
Is OpenAI about to release their biggest AI project? In episode 16 of Mixture of Experts, we chat about OpenAI’s rumored “Project Strawberry” and the IBM 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
What’s new with AI agents? In episode 17 of Mixture of Experts discuss Agent Q, the AMD acquisition of ZT Systems and whether AI should be used in art. Listen to learn more!
Today we have the IBM Fellows special! In episode 18 of Mixture of Experts, the Fellows chat about the Cursor hype, Perplexity introducing ads and AI at the US Open. Tune in for more!
In episode 10 we talk all things hardware, all the time, as the experts provide deep insights on AI hardware. Finally, we discuss if Apple creating a pattern for the industry with their on-device and cloud architecture.
It’s Wimbledon finals week! In episode 11, the experts break down how AI is providing insights at the tournament and the future of AI in sports. Then, they discuss both the quality of ChatGPT for coding and scaling synthetic data.
Will modern AI break the music industry? In episode 12, the experts unpack the RIAA lawsuits, Claude 2.0 Engineer and the Goldman Sachs Gen AI reports.
Meta strikes back with the launch of Llama 3.1! In episode 13 of Mixture of Experts, we cover Meta’s new Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2 and the growing interest in small models.
What’s the future of AGI? In episode 6, the experts unpack Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI safety screed. Then, they review what happened at the FAccT conference and talk all things RAG benchmarking.
Is Apple late to the AI game? In episode 7, the experts react to Apple’s WWDC24 announcements. Then, we have part 2 on interpretability as the experts reflect on OpenAI’s new study.
Is there a new major player in the AI space? In episode 8, the experts react to NVIDIA’s Nemotron-4 340B model launch, new developments in enterprise AI agents and a new company—Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Is shrimp Jesus the best use case of AI content creation? In episode 9, the experts chat about AI slop and analyze the releases of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 and BIRD-SQL.
In the inaugural episode of Mixture of Experts, we cover OpenAI’s licensing deal with the Financial Times. Later on, the experts debate the pros and cons of Rabbit’s R1 device and analyze the GPT-2 chatbot.
Let's kick it back to the 90s with Inspector RAGet. In episode 2, the experts weigh in on the explosion of open source, KANs and RAG.
Are LLMs forcing the death of Google search? In episode 3, the experts analyze Google's AI overviews, GPT-4o and our multimodal future.
What’s going on between Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI? In episode 4, the experts address OpenAI versus ScarJo, explain the future of FMTI and review innovations in open source.
How is the market reacting to Google's AI overviews? In episode 5, the experts check back in on AI overviews, break down Anthropic’s Golden Gate Claude and explain the "whale computer."