Wolfram Ravenwolf

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Tests and compares large language models for a living, running structured benchmarks like MMLU-Pro Computer Science on new releases as they come out, from closed models like GPT to open-weight models like GLM and DeepSeek. Focuses especially on local and open-source LLMs that people can run themselves, and publishes detailed write-ups of each comparison. Works as an AI engineer and consultant based in Germany. Co-hosts and regularly guests on ThursdAI, a weekly roundup of AI news and model releases, and posts benchmark results and commentary on X, Bluesky and GitHub under the handle WolframRavenwolf.

Where to Find Them

Wolfram Ravenwolf hosts ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week .

Recently: “Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic’s R&D, Meta drops an 816B open model & Gemini 4 Argon” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (October 2026); “ThursdAI - Oct 1 - OpenAI joins the assistant race, CoreWeave drops serverless GPUs & more” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (October 2026); “Opus 5.5 is your new workhorse! OpenAI ships GPT 6 Sol and Luna before DevDay and Meta goes all in on Muse! Your friday read is here” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (September 2026); “ThursdAI - Sep 17 - TypeSafe's Jev is a ChatGPT moment for decisions, Pace the Frontier splits the labs & more” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (September 2026); “OpenAI solves Navier-Stokes, Meta’s Muse a free AI agent that’s really good, DeepSeek V4.1 shrinks KV cache, and one doomer post causes OpenAI to consider pausing training + more AI news” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (September 2026); “Welcome to AGI part 1 - Fable 5.1, Muse Spark beats Sol, 3 new world models blow our minds” on ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week (September 2026).

What They Said

“My P doom for AI is much less than my P doom for humans. If you look at the world where humanity has gone without AI, I think we should risk the chance that with AI we will get something better if it's widely distributed.” — Wolfram Ravenwolf, ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week

This closes a run of argument about a doomer post that had prompted talk of pausing training, with Ravenwolf pointing out that nothing came of an earlier warning. The conditional at the end is the actual claim: the bet only pays off if the technology is widely distributed. Alex Volkov cut in to say they could feel a whole debate coming, and Chris Alexiuk picked up the distribution thread straight after.

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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week Around 1:25:00 into the episode
Wolfram Ravenwolf

Did you hear anything that anything happened after that came out? Nothing, right? Nothing. And

Alex Volkov

the world didn't end.

Wolfram Ravenwolf

My P doom for AI is much less than my P doom for humans. If you look at the world where humanity has gone without AI, I think we should risk the chance that with AI we will get something better if it's widely distributed.

Alex Volkov

All right, folks, I think we could feel a whole debate.

Chris Alexiuk

Anti-democratic views and the healthiest thing you can have is an ecosystem. So a monoculture is bad in any ecosystem, whether silicon or organic-based. And still, encryption works. If you want it to work, it does work. And that's the main tool we have. If we distribute it and we're able to have…

Alex Volkov

All right, folks, I think we've covered this thing enough. There's plenty of stuff to cover in the big war, big labs, but we will keep monitoring. We'll let you know if anything major happens there. I think we'll skip Apple's event that has nothing to do with AI. The only few things about the Apple…

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