Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer

🎙️ Host of @thursdai_pod
✨ AI Evangelist with @wandb 🪄🐝
working on @weave_wb (opinions my own)

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

We moved from 3 frontier AI labs to 5 in a single week!

This week was the craziest week in AI news, almost since we've done the @thursdai_pod - new episode and a 5500 word newsletter is here!

https://t.co/g5hSZGJZbn

We covered about 9 releases, tested 5 of them on air, had @petergostev discuss his GPT Sol early access experience and how he missed it when it was taken away.

Unfortunately Fable fucked up and suggested I use an AI generated Thumbnail that doesn't do well on X (h/t @0xSero) so most of my feed missed it.

If you've always heard about ThursdAI but never seen the final output (Polished and sourced newsletter, Podcast) - this week would be a great one to check us out!

[📅 ThursdAI - live 8:30am every Thu @thursdai_pod]

The full write-up, every link and benchmark: https://t.co/3pPJ7GCdPz

Interactive episode page with the four-model Infographic Arena: https://t.co/wrWES2f6f4

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@venturetwins Congrats Justine! 👏

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

Hi mutuals 👋 welcome back to the timeline

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@sama @KatieMiller You're actually paying way more than that cause you're affiliated with the OpenAi account

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@Teknium @NousResearch Ayee, thanks for the response @Teknium.

Looks like XAI only supports zero data retention for Enterprises but promises to not ever train on customer data unless explicitly enabled.

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

Hey, @Teknium @NousResearch

Does Hermes use ZDR when using Grok oauth? I'd love to know that my whole mac is not being uploaded to spaceXAI servers just cuase I decided to try out their models 🙏

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice. For teams using zero data retention, no trace and code data is ever retained. All API key use of Grok Build also respects ZDR.

If ZDR is disabled, the /privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data.

Run the /privacy command to view or change your settings at any time.

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@MatthewBerman that's what weekends are for Matt

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

🧳 😂 I now have a custom packing list for my 40th trip to SF... with a DB, search and honestly SOL didn't have to go so hard but it did!

This took it like 3 minutes and one more followup for the syncing between devices.

We truly live int he best timeline.

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

Introducing - the Volkov expedition times eval!

For my 40th next week, I wanted it to be unforgettable for my kids, I Fabled a personalized daily guide, using Fable, GPT-Image2 & NB2

Then tested on Meta new Image and ByteDance 👇

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@simonw hmm let's see. I have 1 main one, I migrated to Hermes and honestly never found a reason to go back yet.

My wife has... 6-7 at this point? a few hermeses but one main OpenClaw she swears by!

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

Nobody stress-tests these models like @petergostev folks! 🔥

This is .. so funny. Doom in SQL - SELECT player

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultra built a Doom-like game in SQL: the game is running in the terminal on the left, while the SQL powering the game in the terminal on the right.

How it works:
DOOMQL is a game engine implemented in 2,000+ lines of SQL. Every frame, SQL raycasts the scene, calculates every RGB pixel, and encodes those pixels as coloured terminal characters. The same SQL then handles controls, movement, collision, enemy AI and combat, while Python connects SQLite to the keyboard, clock and terminal.

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@eastdakota some people love hookah

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@mweinbach @anshelsag haven't had 1 crash since beta 3, stable as fuck

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

Is this the reason all these folks end up in hospitals by tokenmaxxing too much?

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@basedjensen too harsh no? they addressed this and reverted the change almost immediately

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@thsottiaux @reach_vb surely this was a mistake? how can get icon back?

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

UGHH where's my Codex icon setting? latest update and it's gone?! Here's what my settings panel looks like.

say it aint so @thsottiaux 😭 I want codex back

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@DeryaTR_ you can change it back in appearance in settings

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@eastdakota wasn't he KO'd?

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@petergostev the sol release and the resets will do that

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@wandb @aiDotEngineer @CoreWeave @WolframRvnwlf smh I got my hair cut... literally the day after!

Redo on the next @aiDotEngineer ?

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@OpenRouter 🔥 rebrand, not easy to pull off

[Alex Volkov @ AI Engineer @altryne]

@alexatallah I like it!