Episode 43: 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 The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.