When can we expect quantum to reach consumer devices? In episode 45 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by special guest, Blake Johnson, to debrief the quantum noise in the news. Blake helps us understand the intersection between quantum and AI and how far we are from this technology. Then, veteran experts Chris Hay and Volkmar Uhlig hash out some other news in AI this week. We cover Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, CoreWeave filing for an IPO and Sesame AI’s new voice companion. All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro &nbsp;01:06 – Quantum leap&nbsp;20:08 -- Model Context Protocol&nbsp;28:24 -- CoreWeave IPO&nbsp;40:12 -- Sesame AI voice companion&nbsp; The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.&nbsp;

Volkmar Uhlig

VP, AI Infrastructure Portfolio Lead

Chris Hay

Distinguished Engineer, CTO Customer Transformation 

Blake Johnson

    Distinguished Engineer, Quantum Engine Lead, IBM Quantum 

What’s the latest in quantum? Episode 45 of Mixture of Experts covers the quantum buzz, Model Context Protocol, CoreWeave’s IPO and Sesame AI’s voice companion. 

Episode 45: Quantum leap, Model Context Protocol, CoreWeave IPO and an AI voice companion

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Granite 3.2 is officially here! In episode 44 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Maya Murad and Kaoutar El Maghraoui to debrief a few big AI announcements. Last week we covered small vision-language models (VLMs), and this week Granite 3.2 dropped with&nbsp; new VLMs, enhanced reasoning capabilities, and more! Kate takes us under the hood to understand the new features and how they were created. Next, Anthropic dropped a new intelligence model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and a new agentic coding tool, Claude Code. Why did Anthropic release these separately? Then, as we cannot have an episode without covering agents, Maya takes us through the new BeeAI agents! Finally, can fine tuning on a malicious task lead to much broader misalignment? Our experts analyze a new paper released on ‘Emergent misalignment.’ All that and more on this week's episode!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro &nbsp;00:41 – Claude 3.7 Sonnet&nbsp;11:58 – BeeAI agents&nbsp;&nbsp;20:11– Granite 3.2&nbsp;29:23 – Emergent misalignment&nbsp; The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.&nbsp;

Kaoutar El Maghraoui

Principal Research Scientist, AI Engineering, AI Hardware Center

Maya Murad

Product Manager, AI Incubation

Kate Soule

Director, Technical Product Management, Granite

Granite 3.2 is here with some new VLMs! In episode 44 of Mixture of Experts, we cover Claude 3.7, BeeAI agents, Granite 3.2, and a new paper on emergent misalignment. 

Episode 44: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, BeeAI agents, Granite 3.2, and emergent misalignment

What is all the hype around Deep Research? In episode 43 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Volkmar Uhlig and Shobhit Varshney. This week, we discuss reasoning model features coming out of companies like OpenAI’s Deep Research, Google Gemini, Perplexity, xAI’s Grok-3 and more! Next, OpenAI is rumored to release an inference chip, but how likely is this to be a success in the AI chip game? Then, we analyze the capabilities of small vision-language models (VLMs). Finally, a startup, Firecrawl, released a job posting in search of an AI agent. Is this the future for AI tools in the workforce? Tune-in to today’s Mixture of Experts to find out. 00:01 – Intro 00:35 – Deep Research 11:58 – OpenAI inference chip 22:17 – Small VLMs 32:31 – AI agent job posting The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Shobhit Varshney

Senior Partner Consulting on AI for US/Canada/LatAm

What is the hype with Deep Research? In episode 43 of Mixture of Experts, we cover Deep Research, OpenAI’s inference chip rumors, small VLMs, and an AI agent job posting.

Episode 43: Deep Research, OpenAI inference chip, small VLMs, and AI agent job posting

Deep Research, OpenAI inference chip, small VLMs, and AI agent job posting

Live from Paris, Tim Hwang is at the AI Action Summit 2025.&nbsp;In episode 42 of Mixture of Experts,&nbsp;we welcome Anastasia Stasenko, CEO and Co-Founder of pleias along with our veteran experts&nbsp;Marina Danilevsky and Chris Hay. Last week, we touched on some potential conversations at the Paris AI Summit, this week we recap what actually happened. Is AI safety improving Globally? Next, for our paper of the week, we breakdown s1: Simple test-time scaling. Then, Sam Altman is back with another blog, “Three Observations,” what do our experts have to say? Finally, what can we learn from Anthropic’s Economic Index? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro&nbsp;00:42 – Paris AI Summit&nbsp;11:10 – s1: Simple test-time scaling&nbsp;19:32 – Sam Altman’s “Three Observations”&nbsp;30:41 – Anthropic’s Economic Index&nbsp; The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.&nbsp; Resources:Read the paper about s1: Simple test-time scaling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393Read Sam Altman's "Three Observations": https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observationsRead Anthropic's Economic Index: https://www.anthropic.com/economic-indexRead more about AGI: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-general-intelligence

Marina Danilevsky

Senior Research Scientist

Anastasia Stasenko

CEO and Co-Founder, pleias

Distinguished Engineer, CTO Customer Transformation

Live from Paris, Tim Hwang is at AI Action Summit 2025. In episode 42 of Mixture of Experts, we welcome Anastasia Stasenko, CEO and Co-Founder of pleias with our veteran experts. We analyze the Paris AI Summit, s1: Simple test-time scaling, Sam Altman’s “Three Obversations,” and Anthropic’s Economic Index.

Episode 42: Paris AI Summit, Altman's "Three Observations," and Anthropic's Economic Index

What does Sam Altman have up his sleeve? In episode 41 of Mixture of Experts, join host Tim Hwang along with experts Nathalie Baracaldo, Marina Danilevsky and Chris Hay. Last week, we covered all things DeepSeek, and this week OpenAI has some new releases to share. Today, the experts dissect deep research and o3-mini. Next, our host Tim Hwang is travelling to AI Action Summit, he asks our experts what we can expect coming out of the event. Then, we talk about Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers. Finally, Microsoft is creating a unit to study AI’s impact, what does this mean? Find out all this and more on Mixture of Experts. 00:01 – intro 00:41 – Open AI deep research and o3-mini 13:51 – AI Action Summit 20:17 – Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers 28:54 – Microsoft AI Impact team The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. <ul><li>Subscribe for <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120 " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI updates</a></li><li>Learn more about <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">artificial intelligence</a></li><li><a href=" https://www.ibm.com/think/news/deepseek-r1-ai " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DeepSeek's reasoning AI shows power of small models, efficiently trained</a></li><li>Visit <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mixture of Experts podcast page </a>to learn more AI content</li></ul>

Nathalie Baracaldo

Senior Research Scientist, Master Inventor

Tune into Mixture of Experts episode 41, where the panel unpacks OpenAI’s new releases: deep research and o3-mini, AI Action Summit, Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers and Microsoft’s creating a unit to study AI’s impact.

Episode 41: OpenAI deep research, o3-mini, AI Action Summit, and Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers

OpenAI deep research, o3-mini, AI Action Summit, and Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers

Listen to episode 41 of Mixture of Experts: OpenAI deep research, o3-mini, AI Action Summit, and Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers. Mixture of Experts–an IBM podcast. #MoEPodcast #MixtureOfExperts #IBM

Let’s bust some early myths about DeepSeek. In episode 40 of Mixture of Experts, join host Tim Hwang along with experts Aaron Baughman, Chris Hay and Kate Soule. Last week, we covered the release of DeepSeek-R1; now that the entire world is up to speed, let’s separate the facts from the hype. Next, what is model distillation and why does it matter for competition in AI? Finally, Sam Altman among other tech CEOs shared his response to DeepSeek. Will R1 radically change the open-source strategy of other tech giants? Find out all this and more on Mixture of Experts. 00:01 – Intro 00:41 – DeepSeek facts vs hype 21:00 – Model distillation 31:21 – Open source and OpenAI The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.

Aaron Baughman

IBM Fellow, Master Inventor

Let’s bust some early myths about DeepSeek! In Mixture of Experts' episode 40, the panel tackles DeepSeek R1 misconceptions, explains model distillation, and dissects the open-source competition landscape.

Episode 40: DeepSeek facts vs hype, model distillation, and open source competition

DeepSeek facts vs hype, model distillation, and open source competition

Listen to episode 40 of Mixture of Experts: DeepSeek facts vs hype, model distillation, and open source competition. Mixture of Experts–an IBM podcast. #MoEPodcast #MixtureOfExperts #IBM

What does the future hold for DeepSeek? In episode 39 of Mixture of Experts, join host Tim Hwang along with experts Abraham Daniels, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Skyler Speakman to discuss the release of DeepSeek-R1. Next, Mistral indicates going IPO. Then, FrontierMath’s new benchmark is particularly difficult, the experts debrief. Finally, IDC released a report on code assistants, what do we need to know about generalist and specialized coding assistants? Tune-in to this week’s episode to find out.&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro &nbsp;01:08 – DeepSeek-R1&nbsp;14:08 – Mistral indicates IPO&nbsp;20:54 – FrontierMath controversy&nbsp;30:04 -- IDC code assistants report&nbsp; The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.&nbsp;

Skyler Speakman

Abraham Daniels 

Senior Technical Product Manager, Granite

What does the future hold for DeepSeek? In episode 39 of Mixture of Experts, our panel debriefs DeepSeek-R1, Mistrals IPO indication, the FrontierMath controversy and the IDC gen AI code assistants report.

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Episode 42: Paris AI Summit, Altman's "Three Observations," and Anthropic's Economic Index

Episode 41: OpenAI deep research, o3-mini, AI Action Summit, and Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers

Episode 40: DeepSeek facts vs hype, model distillation, and open source competition

Episode 39: DeepSeek-R1, Mistral IPO, FrontierMath controversy, and IDC code assistant report

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