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ThursdAI Show Notes - Feb 5, 2026

ThursdAI - Feb 05, 2026

TL;DR

  • Open Source: GLM-OCR (#1 doc understanding), Qwen3-Coder-Next (70%+ SWE-Bench), Intern-S1-Pro (1T scientific), Step 3.5 Flash (350 tok/s)
  • Agentic Corner: Clawdbook, Moltbook, 4Claw, MoltChurch β€” AI Psychosis is taking over!
  • Big CO: Codex App (500K downloads in 2 days)
  • Vision & Video: Grok Imagine 1.0 (10s video + audio), Kling 3.0
  • Voice & Audio: MiniCPM-o 4.5 (full-duplex), Voxtral Transcribe 2, ACE-Step 1.5 (music in 10s)
  • Buzz: WeaveHacks 3 hackathon recap

Hosts and Guests

  • Alex Volkov - AI Evangelist @ Weights & Biases (@altryne)
  • Co-Hosts: @WolframRvnwlf @yampeleg @nisten @ldjconfirmed @ryancarson

Open Source LLMs

GLM-OCR (Z.ai)

0.9B parameter model achieves #1 ranking on OmniDocBench V1.5 for document understanding

Qwen3-Coder-Next (Alibaba)

80B MoE coding agent model with just 3B active params, scores 70%+ on SWE-Bench Verified

Intern-S1-Pro (Shanghai AI Lab)

1 trillion parameter open-source MoE model with 512 experts achieving SOTA scientific reasoning

Step 3.5 Flash (StepFun)

196B sparse MoE model with only 11B active parameters, achieving frontier reasoning at 100-350 tok/s


Agentic Corner πŸ€–πŸŒ

The Rise of the Agentic Internet

  • Clawdbook β€” agents' social network
  • Moltbook β€” agent marketplace
  • Claw-Tube β€” agent video platform
  • MoltX β€” agent Twitter
  • Molt Church β€” agents finding religion?
  • 4Claw β€” 4chan for clawkers

AI Psychosis is taking over β€” agents building infrastructure for agents, trading with each other, creating their own culture.


Big CO LLMs + APIs

Codex App (OpenAI)

A dedicated command center for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. 500K downloads in 2 days.


This Week's Buzz πŸ†

WeaveHacks 3 Hackathon Recap

Jan 31 - Feb 1 | W&B HQ, San Francisco | 200+ builders

Grand Prize Winner: Aetheris V.O β€” Screen-aware AI copilot

  • Team: Amogh Maheshwari, Reeti Bandyopadhyay, Savir Dillikar, Spencer Liu, Raquib Alam
  • Prize: $4K + Unitree G2 Pro robot dog 🐢

Notable Projects:

  • Fractal β€” branching research spaces
  • Haggler β€” auto-negotiates refunds
  • DML β€” Deterministic Memory Layer for agents

Vision & Video

Grok Imagine 1.0 (xAI)

10-second 720p video generation, native audio, and API that tops Artificial Analysis benchmarks

Kling 3.0

All-in-one AI video creation engine with native multimodal generation, multi-shot sequences, and built-in audio


Voice & Audio

MiniCPM-o 4.5 (OpenBMB)

First open-source full-duplex omni-modal LLM that can see, listen, and speak simultaneously

Voxtral Transcribe 2 (Mistral AI)

State-of-the-art speech-to-text, sub-200ms latency, open weights under Apache 2.0

ACE-Step 1.5

Open-source AI music generator runs full songs in under 10 seconds on consumer GPUs with MIT license


Links

  • YouTube: thursdai.news/yt
  • Newsletter: thursdai.news
  • Twitter: @thursdai_pod / @altryne
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