ThursdAI - Opus 1M, Jensen declares OpenClaw as the new Linux, GPT 5.4 Mini & Nano, Minimax 2.7, Composer 2 & more AI news

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This episode covers significant updates in AI, including new models and features from major companies like OpenAI and NVIDIA.

Howdy, Alex here, let me catch you up on everything that happened in AI: (btw; If you haven’t heard from me last week, it was a Substack glitch, it was a great episode with 3 interviews, our 3rd birthday, I highly recommend checking it out here ) This week was started on a relatively “chill” note, if you consider Anthropic enabling 1M context window chill. And then escalated from there. We covered the new GPT 5.4 Mini & Nano variants from OpenAI. How MiniMax used autoresearch loops to improve MiniMax 2.7 , Cursor shipping their own updated Composer 2 model, and how NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang embraced OpenClaw calling it “the most important OSS software in history” and that every company needs an OpenClaw strategy. Also, OpenAI acquires Astral (ruff, uv tools) and Mistral releases a “small” 119B unified model and Cursor dropped their Opus like Composer 2 model. Let’s dive in: ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Big Companies LLMs 1M context is now default for Opus. Anthropic enabled the 1M context window they shipped Claude with in beta, by default, to…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Volkov

Topics covered

• AI news
• OpenAI
• NVIDIA
• Anthropic
• machine learning
• software updates

Keywords

• AI news
• GPT 5.4
• OpenClaw
• MiniMax
• Composer 2
• Anthropic
• NVIDIA
• Mistral
• Opus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, NVIDIA, OpenAI

Products: GPT 5.4 Mini, GPT 5.4 Nano, MiniMax 2.7, Composer 2, OpenClaw, Astral, Mistral, Opus

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