📅 ThursdAI - Feb 19 - Gemini 3.1 Pro Drops LIVE, Sonnet 4.6 Closes Gap, OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI

📅 ThursdAI - Feb 19 - Gemini 3.1 Pro Drops LIVE, Sonnet 4.6 Closes Gap, OpenClaw Goes to OpenAI

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

February 19, 2026 · 1h 32m

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This episode covers significant AI news including the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro by Google and updates from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Hey, it’s Alex, let me catch you up! Since last week, OpenAI convinced OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger to join them, while keeping OpenClaw.. well... open. Anthropic dropped Sonnet 4.6 which nearly outperforms the previous Opus and is much cheaper, Qwen released 3.5 on Chinese New Year’s Eve, while DeepSeek was silent and Elon and XAI folks deployed Grok 4.20 without any benchmarks, and it’s 4 500B models in a trenchcoat? Also, Anthropic updated rules state that it’s breaking ToS to use their plans for anything except Claude Code & Claude SDK (and then clarified that it’s OK? we’re not sure) Then Google decided to drop their Gemini 3.1 Pro preview right at the start of our show, and it’s very nearly the best LLM folks can use right now (though it didn’t pass Nisten’s vibe checks) Also, Google released Lyria 3 for music gen (though only 30 seconds?) and our own Ryan Carson blew up on X again with over 1M views for his Code Factory article, Wolfram did a deep dive into Terminal Bench and .. we have a brand new website: https://thursdai.news 🎉 Great week all in all, let’s dive in! ThursdAI - Subscribe to never feel like you’re behind. Share with your friends if you’re already…

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Host: Alex Volkov

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Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, XAI, Google

Products: Sonnet 4.6, Opus, Qwen 3.5, Grok 4.20, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Lyria 3

Books & works: Code Factory article, Terminal Bench

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