Would you trust a humanoid robot to unload your dishwasher? This week on Mixture of Experts, we revisit 1X NEO, a new humanoid robot, as it finally enters the home, seeking to automate tasks. How far are we from this reality? Next, Japan’s copyright dispute with Sora 2, we discuss how AI training, synthetic data and IP are all impacting AI models. Finally, are there too many AI alliances? Our experts analyze the OpenAI and AWS partnership and what it means for AI infrastructure and multi-cloud strategies. Join host Tim Hwang and panelists Ambhi Ganesan, Ash Minhas and Sandi Besen on this week’s Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:00 – Intro&nbsp;01:10 – Perplexity integrates with Snapchat, Coinbase AI agents, Instacart AI assistants and Google AI chips go to space&nbsp;02:16 – 1X NEO humanoid robot&nbsp;15:23 – Sora 2 copyright&nbsp;26:49 – OpenAI and AWS partnership&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;&nbsp; Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp;Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;

Ash Minhas

Lead AI Advocate 

Ambhi Ganesan 

Partner, AI & Analytics

Sandi Besen

AI Research Engineer 

1X NEO enters the home, Sora 2 and AI copyright and OpenAI’s AWS deal. Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts.

1X NEO humanoid robot enters the home

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It’s spooky week in AI! This week on our Halloween -edition of Mixture of Experts, we chat about Anthropic’s new billion-dollar TPU deal with Google Cloud. Plus, NVIDIA announces bringing data centers to outer space. Two different approaches to the future of AI compute that our experts discuss. Then, OpenAI released how they’re strengthening ChatGPT’s responses to sensitive conversations. We talk AI governance and AI safety. Finally, we discuss the new paper, Underwriting Superintelligence; would you insure your AGI? Join host Tim Hwang and panelists Chris Hay, Gabe GoodHart and Kate Soule on this week’s Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:00 – Intro&nbsp;01:05 – OpenAI goes for profit, NVIDIA’s worth USD 5 Trn, and Amazon smart glasses&nbsp;02:16 – Anthropic TPU announcement&nbsp;12:49 – Underwriting Superintelligence&nbsp;27:54 – ChatGPT sensitive conversations&nbsp;42:14 – NVIDIA Starcloud &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;&nbsp;Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp; #Anthropic #AIchip #NVIDIA #AIinfrastructure #AGI&nbsp;

Christopher Hay

Distinguished Engineer 

Gabe Goodhart

Chief Architect, AI Open Innovation 

Kate Soule

Director, Technical Product Management, Granite 

This Halloween edition of Mixture of Experts dives into AI news: Anthropic’s billion-dollar TPU deal, NVIDIA’s space-bound data centers, OpenAI’s ChatGPT safety updates, and a new paper on insuring AGI. Join Tim Hwang and panelists for expert insights on AI governance and the future of compute. 

 

Anthropic’s TPU move and NVIDIA’s Starcloud

OpenAI is back and coming for search. This week on Mixture of Experts, we debrief ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new web browser and the impacts on search. Then, Andrej Karpathy is back with his pessimistic timeline to AGI. Later, we discuss DeepSeek-OCR. Finally, can your AI have brain rot? Join host Tim Hwang and panelists Aaron Baughman, Abraham Daniels and Martin Keen on this week’s Mixture of Experts to find out. 00:00 – Intro 00:55 – Goldman AI, Groq and IBM, Military AI and Uber 02:05 – ChatGPT Atlas 14:23 – Karpathy’s AGI timeline 23:52 – DeepSeek-OCR 34:30 – AI brain rot 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 

Martin Keen

Master Inventor 

Abraham Daniels 

Sr. Technical Product Manager, Granite

This week on Mixture of Experts, we break down ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new AI-powered web browser, and its impact on search. Plus, Andrej Karpathy’s AGI timeline, DeepSeek’s new OCR breakthrough, and whether your AI can get “brain rot.”

ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s new web browser

Visit the Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts?utm=podcastsMoEYT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts?utm=podcastsMoEYT</a>&nbsp; What if Nvidia’s biggest advantage isn’t so big anymore? This week on Mixture of Experts, we break down the CAISI report on DeepSeek’s model risks, Reflection AI’s massive USD 2B fundraise for an open frontier lab, Oracle Cloud’s big bet on AMD chips over Nvidia and the wild story of a VC fund replacing analysts with AI agents.&nbsp; <ul><li>00:00 – Intro &nbsp;</li><li>01:14 – Bad bot, Oracle + IBM, Dreamforce,&nbsp;18+ ChatGPT&nbsp;</li><li>02:19 – Oralce bets on AMD chips&nbsp;</li><li>18:34 – CAISI DeepSeek report&nbsp;</li><li>29:57 – Reflection AI raises USD 2B&nbsp;</li><li>41:18 – VC fund replacing analysts with AI agents&nbsp;</li></ul> 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;&nbsp;Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;

IBM Fellow, Master Inventor

Ambhi Ganesan

Volkmar Uhlig

VP, AI Infrastructure

Explore the latest in AI: CAISI’s critical evaluation of DeepSeek, Reflection AI’s USD 2B fundraise for an open frontier lab, Oracle Cloud’s AMD pivot, and a VC fund run entirely by AI agents.  

OpenAI, Oracle & AMD shake up AI

The major AI players are not slowing down. In episode 76 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Olivia Buzek, Chris Hay and Mihai Criveti. First, we analyze OpenAI’s release of their new AgentKit. Then, IBM announced a partnership with Anthropic to accelerate enterprise-ready AI—we talk AI governance and the future of industry partnerships. Then, Chris Hay gives us his explanation of modular manifolds. Finally, we discuss the potential of AI becoming healthcare experts amid Deena Mousa’s The Algorithm Will See You Now. Will AI replace radiologists? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out.&nbsp; 00:00 – Intro&nbsp;01:09 – OpenAI and AMD, IBM’s Project Bob, chip diamonds and Peloton's AI Trainers&nbsp;02:20 – AgentKit &nbsp;13:29 – IBM &amp; Anthropic partnership&nbsp;22:49 – Modular manifolds &nbsp;31:52 – AI in radiology &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; Read the whitepaper about how IBM and Anthropic are securing enterprise AI architectures → &nbsp;<a href="https://ibm.biz/Bdb4xR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ibm.biz/Bdb4xR</a> &nbsp;Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;Visit the Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp;

Mihai Criveti 

Distinguished Engineer, Agentic AI

Chris Hay 

Distinguished Engineer

Olivia Buzek

Senior Staff Dev Advocate 

OpenAI launches AgentKit, IBM partners with Anthropic, modular manifold explanation and experts debate AI’s role in healthcare. Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts.

IBM partners with Anthropic, plus OpenAI drops AgentKit

What’s new in AI models? In episode 75 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Kate Soule and Kush Varshney to debrief a frenzy of model drops this week. IBM debuts Granite 4.0 hyper-efficient hybrid models, Claude Sonnet 4.5 delivers longer run times and sharper reasoning and Sora 2 takes vibe coding to the next level with vibe video production. Then, we dig into OpenAI’s new feature, Buy in ChatGPT. Finally, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we are joined by special guest, Matt Kosinski, host of the Security Intelligence podcast—can you trust your AI? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out. 00:00 – Intro 1:17 – Meta Ads assistant, DoorDash Dot, Microsoft vibe working and Tilly AI Actor 2:23 – Granite 4.0 10:21 – Claude 4.5 17:57 – Sora 2 29:15 – Buy in ChatGPT 37: 00 – Introducing Security Intelligence 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. Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;Learn more about artificial intelligence → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence</a>&nbsp;Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp;Watch the latest episode of the Security Intelligence podcast → <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDpUZD1ogEE&amp;list=PLOspHqNVtKABGIbaWP1xYQHbwuXjZwqpH&amp;index=1&amp;t=225s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDpUZD1ogEE&amp;list=PLOspHqNVtKABGIbaWP1xYQHbwuXjZwqpH&amp;index=1&amp;t=225s</a>&nbsp;

Kaoutar El Maghraoui 

Principal Research Scientist and Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platform

Kate Soule 

Director, Technical Product Management, Granite

Kush Varshney

IBM Fellow, AI Governance 

A week of big AI updates: Granite 4.0, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2 vibe video production and OpenAI’s new Buy in ChatGPT—plus, can you trust your AI?

This week in AI models: Granite 4.0, Claude 4.5, Sora 2

Why did NVIDIA invest USD100bn into OpenAI? In episode 74 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Sandi Besen, Mihai Criveti and Gabe Goodhart to talk about the AI chipmaker’s next big move. Next, we analyze Tongyi DeepResearch and get into a conversation around open source. Then, Google released a new agent protocol, AP2. After that, will AI take over? We debrief a new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Finally, Apple shared that the new AirPods will have a translation feature powered by AI. Is Apple back in the game? Tune in to Mixture of Experts to find out.&nbsp; 00:00 – Intro&nbsp;01:17 – OpenAI's data centers, Alibaba and NVIDIA partnership, IBM Granite Docling&nbsp;and Meta's dating AI assistant02:23 – Tongyi DeepResearch&nbsp;13:12 – Google's AP2&nbsp;23:31 – "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"&nbsp;33:50 – AirPods translation feature&nbsp;43:49 – NVIDIA invests USD100bn in OpenAI&nbsp;&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; Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;Learn more about artificial intelligence → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/artificial-intelligence</a>&nbsp;Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp;

Gabe Goodhart 

Chief Architect, AI Open Innovation

Discover why NVIDIA is investing USD100bn into OpenAI, explore Tongyi DeepResearch, Google’s new AP2 agent protocol and Apple’s AI-powered AirPods translation feature in this week’s Mixture of Experts.

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