AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #103

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: xAI acquired X, 4o Image Generation, A Practical Experimentation of GraphRAG and Agentic Architecture, How to train and evaluate AI agents and trajectories, and much more!

🗣️ Shoutouts

• 📚 Next AI book club reading: AI Book Club: AI Engineering on 3/25 - RSVP on LinkedIn or Meetup.

• 🛠️ Fine-tune & Serve LLMs with LoRA & QLoRA for Production - LLMOps Workshop on 4/30/25 - RSVP on Eventbrite

📰 AI News & Stories:

• Elon Musk says xAI acquired X - Read on TechCrunch

• Carbon Robotics unveils ‘AutoTractor,’ a self-driving platform to boost productivity on farms - Read on GeekWire

• Leadership updates at Open AI - Read on OpenAI

• Introducing 4o Image Generation - Read on OpenAI

• AI and Robotics: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Robotic Automation - Read on Encord

• Microsoft expands AI features across Intel and AMD-powered Copilot Plus PCs - Read on The Verge

💻 ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Mastering DDIM: A Simple Guide to Faster AI Image Generation - Readon LearnOpenCV

• Introducing Gradio's new Dataframe! - Read on Hugging Face

• Training and Finetuning Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers v4 - Read on Hugging Face

• Automated Articulatory Speech Synthesis for Animation - Read on Edge Impulse

• NVIDIA Isaac GROOT N1 Is an Open Source Foundation Model for Accelerated Humanoid Robot Development - Read on Hackster

• A Practical Experimentation of GraphRAG and Agentic Architecture With NeoConverse - Read on neo4j

• How to train and evaluate AI agents and trajectories with Labelbox - Read on Labelbox

• Introducing FiftyOne Enterprise Workflows to Accelerate Visual AI Innovation - Read on Voxel51

• Security on the Path to AGI - Read on OpenAI

• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model - Read on Anthropic

• Model Context Protocol - Read on Arize

• How to Build RAG with Milvus, QwQ-32B and Ollama - Read on Zillliz

📅 Upcoming AI Events

• [Seattle] Data for AI apps, AI Coding, and Agentic workflow | April 1 - RSVP on AI Camp

• Training Techniques for Convolutional Networks | April 1 - RSVP on Voxel51

• Online Workshop - Building Scalable Apps with Weaviate | April 3rd - RSVP on Weaviate

• AI Book Club: AI Agents in Action | April 29th - Register on LinkedIn

• Mastering Skewed Datasets: Practical Techniques for Better Insights and Models | April 30 - RSVP on Data Science Dojo

• Fine-tune & Serve LLMs with LoRA & QLoRA for Production| April 30 - RSVP on Eventbrite

• Hands-On APIs for AI and Data Science - AI Book Club | May 27 - RSVP on LinkedIn

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Enhancing Grid Reliability: How Buzz Solutions Uses Vision AI to Prevent Outages and Wildfires - Listen on NVIDIA

• Become Your Best Self Through AI Augmentation — feat. Natalie Monbiot - Listen on SuperDataScience

• Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models with Julie Kallini - Listen on TWiML

• AI, autonomy, and the future of naval warfare | Weights & Biases - Listen on YouTube

• GeekWire Podcast: Inside Amazon’s attempt to reinvent Alexa for the new era of AI - Listen on Geekwire

• The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah - Listen on Latent Space

📝 Latest AI/ML Research Papers

• Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models - Read on arXiv

• ActionStudio: A Lightweight Framework for Data and Training of Action Models - Read on arXiv

• Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models - Read on arXiv

• CPPO: Accelerating the Training of Group Relative Policy Optimization-Based Reasoning Models - Read on arXiv

• VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulness - Read on arXiv

Hello, world! Every week, I keep track of the most exciting news, resources, events, podcasts, and papers I find around AI, MLOps, and robotics. Sometimes I sprinkle in my opinions. Let me know in the comments what I missed this week!

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