Deep Research, OpenAI inference chip, small VLMs, and AI agent job posting

What is all the hype around Deep Research? In episode 43 of Mixture of
Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Volkmar Uhlig and
Shobhit Varshney. This week, we discuss reasoning model features coming
out of companies like OpenAI’s Deep Research, Google Gemini, Perplexity,
xAI’s Grok-3 and more! Next, OpenAI is rumored to release an inference
chip, but how likely is this to be a success in the AI chip game? Then,
we analyze the capabilities of small vision-language models (VLMs).
Finally, a startup, Firecrawl, released a job posting in search of an AI
agent. Is this the future for AI tools in the workforce? Tune-in to
today’s Mixture of Experts to find out.

00:01 – Intro

00:35 – Deep Research

11:58 – OpenAI inference chip

22:17 – Small VLMs

32:31 – AI agent job posting

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