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The AI Files
For less than 30 minutes a week, stay on top of all relevant AI news, launches, perspectives and actions about AI in corporates and enterprises. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.
Episodes
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#62 - Humanity prevails over AI, ChatGPT Agent, Perplexity Comet, Mistral Voxtral, AI for frontline
In this episode, I covered human prevailing over AI in an exhibition Humans vs AI coding contest and new ventures to invest in AI for frontline workers and…
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AI in Media & Sports with Jon Flynn - AI GTM Leader at Google
All Jon Flynn aspired as a child, was to become a rugby player; he now shapes the Sports & Media industry with the power of AI. He is an AI nerd, Author…
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#61 - Grok 4, Medical Superintelligence, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, AI layoffs etc
Shadab discusses Microsoft layoffs, Grok 4, Medical Superintelligence, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, and recent AI related news & announcements
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#60 - Agentforce-3, Doppl, 4 days work week, Share AI apps in Claude, AI training legal relief etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Quote of the week of recent remarks by senator Bernie Sanders on AI should lead to 4 days work week, Google Doppl…
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#59 - Midjourney’s V1, Gemini Flash-Lite, Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough, Scale AI etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discusses Andy Jassy's memo to Amazon employees on GenAI that was in the news for impact of AI on jobs in years to come. We…
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#58 - Apple WWDC, o3 Pro, Copilot Vision, Gentle Singularity, Cues, Audio Description with AI etc
Jaime and Shadab discusses announcements from Apple WWDC, o3 Pro model, Copilot Vision on Windows, Sam Altman's essay on 'The Gentle Singularity', prompt…
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#57 - Mistral Code, Claude Gov, Eleven Labs, Model Router, Prompt to catch up after time off etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Perplexity booming growth and plan for a browser as well as Meta facing backlash on monetizing deepfake Ad. We…
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#56 - AI eating entry level jobs, Google I/O announcements, Claude 4, Operator etc
In this episode, Shadab and Jaime discuss Dario Amodei's latest interview with CNN on 50% of white collar entry level jobs impacted by AI. We also discussed…
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#55 - Jony and Sam, Take It Down Act, Microsoft Build announcements etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss new OpenAI acquisition of IO leading to Jony Ive designing physical devices as well as ChatGPT as well as new Take It…
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#54 - Codex, GPT4.1, AlphaEvolve, SWE-1, Learning with ChatGPT, Risk management with AI etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Codex and GPT4.1 in ChatGPT from OpenAI, AlphaEvolve from Google for enhancing algorithms, SWE-1 models from…
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#53 - AI First Memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI announcements, Microsoft joins A2A etc
Jaime and Shadab discuss AI First memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI for country & its data residency, Gemini implicit caching, AI in courtrooms…
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#52 - Frontier Firms, Phi-4, Nova Premier, Claude Integrations etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss the Anthropic and Nvidia bickering over the chips export control, the emergence of Frontier Firms as per Microsoft…
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#51 - The Cheating App, Oscars accepts AI, GPT-image-1, Exec order on AI in education, Dx-GPT etc
Jaime and Shadab discuss The Cheating App, Oscars accepts AI, GPT-image-1, Executive order on AI in education, Perplexity assistant, Dx-GPT for rare disease…
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#50 - Personal AI Assistant, GPT 4.1, o3 and o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-4o transcribe & TTS etc
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab, discuss the AI Personal Assistant in Microsoft Copilot along with Computer Use Agent as well as bunch of models in GPT-4.1…
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Vibe Coding with Dan Giannone
We hosted our guest Dan Giannone, a Sr Architect at Microsoft who explained Vibe Coding and showed us the live demo of Vibe Coding with a use case. Learn about…
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#49 - Google CloudNxt AI announcements, Microsoft Copilot roadmap, Llama 4 herd & more
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about various announcements across Gemini models, media models, agentic AI etc at Google CloudNxt event. We also covered…
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#48 - Microsoft 50 Years, AI Skills Fest, Amazon Nova Act, Runway Labs Gen-4, FabCon updates & more
This week, Jaime and Shadab talks about Microsoft's 50 years and Guinness record attempting AI Skills Fest of learning on April 8th in the celebration. We also…
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#47 - GPT-4o image gen, MCP adoption, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Agents & Reasoning in Copilot platforms & more
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about MCP adoption by OpenAI and others, viral image generation in GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Researcher & Analyst in…
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#46 - Nvidia GTC launches, OpenAI Audio models, Mistral 3.1 Small & more
This week, Shadab covered launches & announcements at Nividia's GTC conference, OpenAI's TTS and STT models, Mistral 3.1 small model, Stable Virtual Camera etc.
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#45 - Future of coding, Gemini Robotics & ImageGen, OpenAI Responses API, Meta AI chips etc
Jaime and I discussed nuances of future of coding in the light of Dario Amodei's comments on AI writing all of the code in 12 months. Google was pretty busy…
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#44 - Sesame AI, Superintelligence strategy, Dragon Copilot, Alibaba QwQ-32B, Nova etc
In this episode, we showed Sesame AI's new voice assistant that is a rage. We also discussed new paper Superintelligence Strategy as well as Microsoft's Dragon…
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#43 - GPT 4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, Claude Code, Snowflake Cortex with AOAI, Fabric AI Skills etc
In this episode, we have covered GPT 4.5, Deep Research demo in ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code, Snowflake Cortex integration with Azure OpenAI…
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#42 - Majorana-1, Grok-3, AI Foundry Lab, Mistral Saba, Humanoid Robot etc
In this episode, we covered Majorana-1 quantum computing chip, xAI's latest Grok-3 models, Mistral's Saba model, Azure AI Foundry Lab, Humanoid Robot, Humane…
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#41 - OpenAI roadmap, Anthropic's Economic Index, PTUs for Fine Tuned models, AI Summit etc
In this episode, Shadab talks about OpenAI's directional roadmap, Anthropic's AI Economic Index, Provisioned Throughput for Fine Tuned Azure OpenAI models…
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#40 - Deep Research, Gemini, Azure AI Agents, AI Earnings etc
In this episode, we discussed OpenAI's new agentic feature Deep Reseach, new Gemini models, Go Live of Azure AI Agents service, recent Big Tech earnings…
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#39 - o3-mini, ChatGPT Gov, EU AI Act, Qwen 2.5 Max etc
In this episode, we demoed & discussed o3-mini in detail as well as discussed Qwen 2.5 Max, ChatGPT Gov, EU AI Act and various other items for the week. Show…
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DeepSeek Special - Jan 2025
In this power-packed but short episode, we covered why is DeepSeek R1 viral, what did they achieve, where can you access and at what cost, how to use in Azure…
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#38 - Stargate, Operator, Citations, DeepSeek R1 etc
In our latest episode, we explore the groundbreaking Stargate Project by OpenAI, the innovative Operator AI agent, the impressive DeepSeekR1 model, and…
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#37 - Discussing the AI PC and Win11 Copilot with Michelle Wallig
🌟 Welcome to The AI Files Podcast! 🌟 In this episode, we explore the future of AI-powered personal computing with special guest Michelle Wallig, former…
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#36 - Azure AI Agent Service, ChatGPT Tasks, Nemotron, AI pricing etc
In this episode, we discussed transformative impact of AI on application development with Microsoft's announcement of new CoreAI group, President Joe Biden's…
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#35 - Policy Agentforce O3 Ray Ban v11 Gemini Flash Thinking
In this episode, we delve into the latest advancements and news in the world of AI and technology. We start with President-elect Donald Trump's recent…
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#34 - Sora, Real Time Vision, Phi 4, Gemini 2.0, Llama 3.3, ChatGPt in Apple Intelligence etc
Sora shows up along with O1, Real Time Vision and other announcements at OpenAI's Shipmas event; Google impresses with project Mariner, Gemini 2.0, Jules etc…
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#33 - O1, PaliGemma 2, Nova, announcements from Ignite etc
In this episode, we covered OpenAI's O-1, Chat GPT Pro, Google's PaliGemma 2, AWS Nova family of LLMs and a several AI announcements from Microsoft Ignite and…
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#32 - Claude's personal style, DeepSeek R1, AI investments etc
In this short episode, I discuss the Claude's personal style, DeepSeek R1, Quen, OpenAI's ambitious plans but legal fight from Musk and bunch of other news
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#31 - 'Training data wall', AI lawsuits, Google's 'LearnAbout' etc
In this episode, we talked about quote of the week 'There is no wall' by Sam Altman on AI scaling hitting the data wall. We covered launches of Google's…
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#30 - US elections and its projected impact on AI, Apple Intelligence, Mistral APIs etc
In this episode, we lamented about US president elect Donald Trump and his stance on AI along with Perplexity CEO's opportunistic offer to New York Times…
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#29 - A talk with Dr. Harvey Castro - ER physician, AI proponent, author & entrepreneur
In this episode, we sat with Dr Harvey Castro to hear his fascinating vision and refreshing methods to use AI to increase efficiency, efficacy and empathy in…
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#28 - Search in ChatGPT, Google JARVIS, GitHub Spark, future of coding etc
In this episode, we discussed launches of Search feature in OpenAI ChatGPT and agents from LinkedIn and Google along with GitHub's Spark and inclusion of other…
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#27 - Computer use, NotebookLM, Copilot Agents, Suki etc
In this episode, we covered Anthropic's Computer use, Google's NotebookLM, Microsoft's Copilot Agents, essay from Dario Amodei, AI company Suki and a bunch of…
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#26 - Ministral, GPT-4o-audio, ScaleAI, AI at Feds etc
We discussed news of the week, Yann LeCun's comment about AI not smarter than a house cat, Scale AI's business model, Feds using AI, and launches from Mistral…
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#25 - AI with Nobel prizes, Tesla's robots, VoiceRAG, AI adoption etc
In this episode, we delve into the Nobel prizes for contribution via AI, Tesla's 'We, Robot' event with launches of Olympus, Cybercab and Robovan as well as…
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#24 - Interview with ChatGPT, Canvas, Advanced Voice, Copilot refresh, MovieGen etc
In this episode, I interviewed ChatGPT with Advanced Voice Capabilities. Also, discussed OpenAI DevDay launches including Real Time API, Canvas, Prompt Caching…
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#23 - Meta Orion, Age of Intelligence, Klarna, Microsoft's Trustworthy AI, Spotlighting etc
In this episode, we covered Meta's Connect event that had peak preview of Orion AR glasses and comparison to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta AI's multi-modal…
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Episode 22 - AI's energy needs, regulations, Large World Models, Copilot Wave 2, US Open etc.
In this episode, we discussed AI's energy needs, California regulations, Copilot Wave 2, AI at US Open etc. We also covered World Labs as AI startup of the…
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Episode 21 - A talk with Imran Chaudhri from Progress
"Great AI requires great IA", says Imran Chaudhri, HLS chief architect at Progress. In this episode, we had a talk with Imran about AI and the data…
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Episode 20 - OpenAI's o1 models, AI's impact on elections, Apple Intelligence, Prompt Injection etc
This episode covers o1-preview and o1-mini models, AI's impact on elections, Apple Intelligence, Prompt Injection & prevention and AI start-up 'Learn…
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Episode 19 - 'How AI is transforming Media & Sports': a talk with Scott Bounds from Microsoft
In this episode, we talked with Scott Bounds, a Sr Director of Data & AI at Microsoft. His deep experience in the industry of Media & Sports, comes out as rich…
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Episode 18 - Phi3.5, Image GenAI tools, Auto fine-tuning, AI in Marketing etc
In this episode, we cover Zuckerberg-Elk joint piece in The Economist, AI start up Empower for auto fine-tuning, multiple launches of image generation tools…
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Episode 17 - Grok 2, AI risks & regulations, Gemini Live, Walmart AI etc
In this episode, we covered a number of news & announcements related to Grok 2, Azure self-serve PTUs, AI Risks & Regulation, Prompt Caching and Walmart using…
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The AI Files - Episode 16
This week, we're diving deep into the latest power shifts at OpenAI, exploring what these executive changes mean for the future of AI. We also cover Amazon's…
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Episode 15 - Graph RAG, GitHub Models, Gemma2, Meta AI Studio etc
In this episode, we will cover AI related news as well as announcements like Gemma 2, GitHub Models, Meta AI Studio and Graph RAG etc. We also covered an AI…
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Episode 14 - LLMOps with Stephen Kaufman
In this episode, we are hosting Stephen Kaufman, AI Architect at Microsoft, to discuss LLMOps, an important discipline to manage the life cycle of LLMs in an…
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Episode 13 - LLAMA3.1, Mistral Large 2, Generative search etc
In this episode, we have discussed LLAMA3.1, Mistral Large 2, Generative search, Search GPT, Prompt report etc as well as comparing between MaaS and hosting of…
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Episode 12 - GPT-4o Mini, AI in Sports, Content Credentials etc
In this episode, we will talk about and demo GPT-4o Mini as well as bunch of other news & launches around Multi-modal AI, regulations, and content credentials…
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Episode 11 - AI Agents with Simon
AI Agents are the future, driving intelligent automation to transforming user experience and increasing efficiencies. In this episode, Simon Lacasse, AI Global…
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Episode 10 - Claude 3.5 Sonnet & GPT4-o, Apple Intelligence, QWEN etc
Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic is amazing and breaks new grounds. Let's talk about it and also compare it against GPT4-o to get more clarity for a decision…
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Episode 9 - 'State of AI' with Matt Fish
Use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the last six months, with 75% of global knowledge workers utilizing it, according to the Microsoft WTI report…
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Episode 8 - Part 2 of "Everything you wanted to know about LLMs" with Simon Lacasse
This episode is part 2 of "Everything you wanted to know about LLMs" with Simon Lacasse who is a Global Blackbelt expert in AI at Microsoft. He covers several…