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Episode 56: Google I/O, Microsoft NLWeb, and is Stack Overflow dead?

Should you pay for Google’s AI Ultra subscription plan? In episode 56 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Abraham Daniels, Gabe Goodhart and Marina Danilevsky to debrief the announcements from Google I/O 2025. Next, RedHat dropped llm-d, a Kubernetes-native distributed inference serving stack; what is it and why does it matter? Then, we analyze Microsoft’s NLWeb: is everything becoming conversational? Finally, Stack Overflow has been on a decline. Is AI to blame? Find out more on this week’s Mixture of Experts!

Key takeaways:

00:01 – Intro
00:52 – Google I/O 2025 announcements
11:36 – Stack Overflow
22:04 – llm-d
30:08 – NLWeb

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