Alex Volkov
Profile
AI Evangelist & Host of ThursdAI at W&B from CoreWeave.
Biography
Alex Volkov is an AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases by CoreWeave and the founder and host of ThursdAI, a weekly podcast and newsletter tracking the fast-moving AI engineering world. Each week, Alex and his crew break down new model releases, benchmarks, evals, agentic engineering patterns, API changes, open source releases, and the tools developers are actually using to build with AI. Before ThursdAI, Alex spent 20 years as a full-stack engineer and founded an AI startup, giving him a builder’s view of what matters and what is just launch-week noise. He helps AI engineers stay current without having to read the entire internet every week.
Conference Sessions
- 2026 06 30 alex volkov the z l continuum should ai engineers still read code — The Z/L Continuum: Should AI Engineers Still Read Code? (2026-06-30, 10:45am-11:05am)
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