Grok 4.6 and Qwen3.8-Max Released: Podcast Explores the Open vs. Closed AI Frontier
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-08-13
This ThursdAI live show preview focuses on the dense release of frontier LLMs, featuring xAI's Grok 4.6, the 2.4T open-weight Qwen3.8-Max on Hugging Face, and DeepSeek V4 Pro on OpenRouter (weights not yet released).
The show notes that the AI frontier is no longer a single lab's property, but a two-front race between open source and xAI. The stream will also cover models like NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and discuss independent evaluation standards in an era of self-reported scoreboards.
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