The AI Files
A one stop shop for AI news, events, perspectives, demos, strategy and everything about AI. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.
Episodes

Sunday May 18, 2025
Sunday May 18, 2025
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss Codex and GPT4.1 in ChatGPT from OpenAI, AlphaEvolve from Google for enhancing algorithms, SWE-1 models from Windsurf, paper on learning improvements with ChatGPT, use of AI to manage risks in complex projects etc

Sunday May 11, 2025
Sunday May 11, 2025
Jaime and Shadab discuss AI First memos, Mistral Medium & Enterprise, OpenAI for country & its data residency, Gemini implicit caching, AI in courtrooms, Microsoft joins A2A etc

Sunday May 04, 2025
Sunday May 04, 2025
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab discuss the Anthropic and Nvidia bickering over the chips export control, the emergence of Frontier Firms as per Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025 report, Claude Integrations, three Phi-4 Reasoning models, Nova Premier model etc

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Jaime and Shadab discuss The Cheating App, Oscars accepts AI, GPT-image-1, Executive order on AI in education, Perplexity assistant, Dx-GPT for rare disease diagnosis etc

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab, discuss the AI Personal Assistant in Microsoft Copilot along with Computer Use Agent as well as bunch of models in GPT-4.1, o3 and o4-mini, GPT-4o transcribe and TTS from OpenAI, Gemini Flash 2.5 etc

Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
We hosted our guest Dan Giannone, a Sr Architect at Microsoft who explained Vibe Coding and showed us the live demo of Vibe Coding with a use case. Learn about it and get started with your own Vibe Coding journey.

Sunday Apr 13, 2025
Sunday Apr 13, 2025
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about various announcements across Gemini models, media models, agentic AI etc at Google CloudNxt event. We also covered Meta Llama 4 herd of models and enhancements in Azure AI Foundry. We then talked about several new features in Microsoft Copilot taking shape and manifesting Mustafa Suleyman's vision of an AI Companion. And more in this episode.

Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
This week, Jaime and Shadab talks about Microsoft's 50 years and Guinness record attempting AI Skills Fest of learning on April 8th in the celebration. We also cover launches of Amazon Nova Act and Runway Labs Gen-4 as well as several announcements from Microsoft Fabric Conference & more. Here is the link to register for AI Skills Fest https://register.aiskillsfest.microsoft.com/

Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
In this episode, Jaime and Shadab talk about MCP adoption by OpenAI and others, viral image generation in GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Researcher & Analyst in Copilot, Reasoning & Agents Flow in Copilot Studio, Phi-4 in use at Japan Airlines & more

Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
This week, Shadab covered launches & announcements at Nividia's GTC conference, OpenAI's TTS and STT models, Mistral 3.1 small model, Stable Virtual Camera etc.