#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

**Andrey Kurenkov** (0:11)
Hello and welcome to the Last Week in AI podcast, where you can hear a chat about what's going on with AI.
As usual, in this episode, we will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. Also the week before, we have unfortunately skipped a week due to scheduling conflicts, but we will cover everything relevant from the period. I'm one of your regular hosts, Andrey Kurenkov. I studied AI in grad school and now work at the startup Astrocade.

**Jeremie Harris** (0:39)
Everybody, what's up? My name is Jeremie. Of course, I'm your other co-host. I'm from Gladstone AI, do AI, National Security, Superintelligence, C type end of the world stuff.
I sound a little thick right now, by the way, which is related to the reason that we didn't record the episode last week, which was that I was traveling and I got sick on the flight. There was a guy who was coughing up a lung next to me. And anyway, that's why I sound so weird right now. But Trip was really useful. And yeah, I'm gonna hopefully be able to talk about a lot of this stuff soon. But a lot of conversations with researchers at the Frontier Labs and folks on the safety teams, the capability teams, all that kind of thing that I think bears quite a bit on the events of last week and the week before. We'll definitely be talking about a lot of that stuff with some of the inside view a little bit what I can share right now on those things. But man, things are moving.

**Andrey Kurenkov** (1:25)
And it has been a slightly eventful two weeks. I mean, I guess it's not the most eventful we've had this year, but there's been some big stuff that we'll be touching on as a quick preview. There's a few new models, nothing gigantic, but fairly meaningful. We'll start with, then as usual, some funding stories and deals about compute and so on.
Some major open-source releases, including Qimi K3 we haven't discussed about, so we'll be talking about that. Then policy safety, of course, we'll be talking about the recent hacking incident from OpenAI and a whole bunch of other stuff related to that. It's going to be a kind of policy safety heavy episode. And then we'll round it out with some research and synthetic media and art. So it'll be a packed episode. We'd like to thank Notion for being a sponsor.
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