Is open source winning the AI race? In episode 58 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Anthony Annunziata, Ash Minhas and Sarah Amos live from New York Tech Week. First, we dive into the various themes coming out of NY Tech Week, specifically practical uses of AI. Next, we analyze a couple of different reports about the impact of open source on AI. Finally, Claude 4 has some really weird behaviors. What does this teach us about AI safety and model development? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:01 -- Intro&nbsp;01:09 -- New York Tech Week 2025&nbsp;11:36 -- Open source AI reports&nbsp;31:33 -- Weird behaviors from Claude 4&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;

Ash Minhas

Lead AI Advocate 

Sarah Amos

Product Manager, HumaneIntelligence 

    Anthony Annunziata

Director, AI Open Innovation 

Is open source winning the AI race? Episode 58 of Mixture of Experts analyzes key themes from NY Tech Week, including practical AI use cases, the growing influence of open source in AI and unexpected behaviors from Claude 4 that raise questions about AI safety and model development.

NY Tech Week, open source AI reports and Claude 4 behaviors

Claude 4’s system prompt leaked? In episode 57 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kate Soule and Aaron Baughman to debrief a hectic week in AI.&nbsp; First, Anthropic’s system prompt for Claude 4 was leaked; what stuck out to our experts? Then, Rick Rubin and Anthropic are vibe coding? We debrief “The Way of Code.” Next, OpenAI paid $6.5 billion for Jony Ive’s company, LoveFrom . Finally, Microsoft theorizes the development of “agent factories”. Is there a “winner takes all” in the AI agent's space?&nbsp; Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts for more!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro&nbsp;00:51 -- Claude 4 system prompt&nbsp;13:23 -- The Way of Code&nbsp;23:03 -- Jony Ive and OpenAI&nbsp;32:30 -- Microsoft’s “agent factory”&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;

Kate Soule

Director, Technical Product Management, Granite

Chris Hay

Distinguished Engineer, CTO Customer Transformation

Aaron Baughman

IBM Fellow, Master Inventor

Claude 4’s system prompt was leaked—what stood out? In Episode 57 of Mixture of Experts, our experts break down a wild week in AI: from Anthropic’s vibe coding with Rick Rubin to OpenAI’s $6.5B LoveFrom deal and Microsoft’s “agent factories” theory.

Claude 4 system prompt, Jony Ive at OpenAI and Microsoft’s “agent factory”

Should you pay for Google’s AI Ultra subscription plan? In episode 56 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Gabe Goodhart and Marina Danilevsky to debrief the announcements from Google I/O 2025. &nbsp;Next, RedHat dropped llm-d, a Kubernetes-native distributed inference serving stack; what is it and why does it matter? Then, we analyze Microsoft’s NLWeb: is everything becoming conversational? Finally, Stack Overflow has been on a decline. Is AI to blame? Find out more on this week’s Mixture of Experts!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro&nbsp;00:52 --Google I/O 2025 announcements&nbsp;11:36 -- Stack Overflow&nbsp;22:04 -- llm-d&nbsp;30:08 -- NLWeb&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;

Gabe Goodhart

Chief Architect, AI Open Innovation 

Abraham Daniels

Senior Technical Product Manager, Granite

Marina Danilevsky

Senior Research Scientist

Should you pay for Google’s AI Ultra plan? In episode 56, we discuss Google I/O 2025, NLWeb, llm-d and the future of Stack Overflow.

Google I/O, NLWeb, llm-d and is Stack Overflow dead?

Can Mistral make Europe a global AI contender? In episode 55 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Volkmar Uhlig and Kaoutar El Maghraoui to discuss the drop of Mistral Medium 3.&nbsp;Next, we analyze the AI chip sales both NVIDIA and AMD made to Saudi Arabia. Then, with IBM’s new ITBench and OpenAI’s HealthBench, we dive deeper into benchmarks for AI evaluation. Tune in to this week’s Mixture of Experts for more!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro&nbsp;00:47 -- Mistral Medium 3&nbsp;12:26 -- AI chips to Saudi Arabia&nbsp;21:21 -- AI evaluation benchmarks&nbsp;31:47 -- Amazon's AI-generated pause ads&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;

Kaoutar El Maghraoui 

Principal Research Scientist and Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platform

Volkmar Uhlig

VP, AI Infrastructure Portfolio Lead 

Distinguished Engineer, CTO Customer Transformation 

Is Europe in the AI race? We explore Mistral’s Medium 3, AI chip sales to Saudi Arabia and the next era of AI benchmarks in this week’s Mixture of Experts.

Mistral Medium 3, OpenAI HealthBench and AI chips to Saudi Arabia

Has AI hallucination gotten out of control? In episode 54 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by&nbsp;Kate Soule, Skyler Speakman and Kaoutar El Maghraoui to analyze reasoning models and rising hallucinations.&nbsp;Next, as IBM Think 2025 wraps, the experts unpack the biggest highlights from IBM’s biggest show of the year:&nbsp;new AI agents, Ferraris and ... penguins? Then, OpenAI is making moves&nbsp;with&nbsp;its acquisition of Windsurf. What does this mean? Tune in&nbsp;to this week’s&nbsp;Mixture of Experts for more!&nbsp; 00:01 – Intro&nbsp;01:12 – IBM Think 2025&nbsp;09:27 – Reasoning models and hallucinations&nbsp;19:23 – OpenAI Windsurf acquisition&nbsp;&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;

Director, Technical Product Management, Granite 

Skyler Speakman

Senior Research Scientist 

Kaoutar El Maghraoui

Principal Research Scientist and Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platform 

IBM Think 2025, OpenAI acquires Windsurf, and does AI reasoning mean more hallucination? Tune-in to this week’s Mixture of Experts to find out!

IBM Think 2025, OpenAI Windsurf acquisition, reasoning models and hallucinations

We are celebrating MoE podcast’s one year anniversary! In episode 53 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by the O.G. panel of experts from our pilot—Chris Hay, Shobhit Varshney and Kush Varshney. This week, we cover some exciting announcements at LlamaCon. Then, we discuss some new Chinese AI models from Qwen3 to the rumored DeepSeek-R2. Next, J.P. Morgan’s CISO, Patrick Opet, released “An open letter to our third-party suppliers,” covering the need for AI security. Are we doomed? Finally, we look back at some of the topics we discussed in episode 1—the Rabbit AI device, GPT-2 chatbot, Apple Intelligence—after all that, who was the first person to say “agents” on the podcast? &nbsp;Tune in to find out, on today’s one-year celebration of Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:00 -- Intro00:38 -- LlamaCon10:34 -- Qwen3 and DeepSeek-R223:23 -- J.P. Morgan’s open letter&nbsp;39:45 -- One year of MoE 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;

Kush Varshney

IBM Fellow, AI Governance 

Shobhit Varshney

Head of Data and AI for the Americas 

It's our 1st birthday! Today on the MoE podcast we cover LlamaCon, Qwen3, DeepSeek-R2 and J.P. Morgan’s open letter on AI security.

LlamaCon, Qwen3, DeepSeek-R2 rumors and JP Morgan’s open letter on AI

Is OpenAI going to enter the social media game? In episode 52 of Mixture of Experts host, Tim Hwang is joined by Gabe Goodhart, Kate Soule and Marina Danilevsky. First, Sam Altman is rumored to be testing an internal prototype social network; why is this a potential next move for the AI giant? Next, for our paper of the week, we analyze Anthropic’s study on chain-of-thought reasoning, “Reasoning Models Don’t Always Say What They Think.” Then, AI scraping puts a strain on Wikimedia; what’s the impact of this? Finally, China held a humanoid robot half-marathon, where humans raced alongside robot competitors. Who wins this AI race? All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts.&nbsp; 00:41 -- OpenAI social network&nbsp;10:02 -- Anthropic’s reasoning study&nbsp;20:56 -- AI bots strain Wikimedia&nbsp;31:33 -- Humanoid half-marathon&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;

Chief Architect, AI Open Innovation

Episode 52 of Mixture of Experts covers OpenAI’s social network, Anthropic’s reasoning study, AI bots on Wikimedia, and a humanoid robot half-marathon.

OpenAI social network, Anthropic’s reasoning study and humanoid half-marathon

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NY Tech Week, open source AI reports and Claude 4 behaviors

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Ash Minhas

Sarah Amos

Anthony Annunziata

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NY Tech Week, open source AI reports and Claude 4 behaviors

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Today's Host

Tim Hwang

Today's Guests

Ash Minhas

Sarah Amos

Anthony Annunziata

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Recent Episodes

Claude 4 system prompt, Jony Ive at OpenAI and Microsoft’s “agent factory”

Google I/O, NLWeb, llm-d and is Stack Overflow dead?

Mistral Medium 3, OpenAI HealthBench and AI chips to Saudi Arabia

IBM Think 2025, OpenAI Windsurf acquisition, reasoning models and hallucinations

LlamaCon, Qwen3, DeepSeek-R2 rumors and JP Morgan’s open letter on AI

OpenAI social network, Anthropic’s reasoning study and humanoid half-marathon