The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Waymo reports 250,000 robotaxi rides, Meta’s Open Source AI Model is Heading Into Space, Tiny Agents: a MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code, Pinecone’s first MCP servers are here, optimal design patterns for effective agents, PyTorch 2.7, and much more!
- 🛠️ Join my next workshop: Fine-tune & Serve LLMs with LoRA & QLoRA for Production on 5/1/25 - RSVP on Eventbrite
- Axon Brings Sky-Hero Tactical Robotics Suite to U.S. Public Safety Agencies - Read on Dronelife
- Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. - Read on X (Twitter)
- Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Embraces Machine Learning For "Tasks That Nobody Wants To Do" - Read on Gamespot
- Adobe adds AI models from OpenAI, Google to its Firefly app - Read on Reuteres
- Space Llama: Meta’s Open Source AI Model is Heading Into Orbit - Read on Meta News
- Microsoft rolls out Recall and other AI features to all Copilot+ PCs, nearly a year after unveiling - Read on GeekWire
- NVIDIA Research at ICLR — Pioneering the Next Wave of Multimodal Generative AI - Read on NVIDIA
- Tiny Agents: a MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code - Read on Hugging Face
- PyTorch 2.7 Release - Read on PyTorch
- DINOv2 by Meta: A Self-Supervised foundational vision model - Read on LearnOpenCV
- Build Faster AI Pipelines with Union.ai Actors: Reuse Containers, Skip Cold Starts - Read on Union.ai
- Is a Knowledge Graph a Graph Database? - Read on Neo4j
- Reinventing AI evaluation: Discover the simplicity of Labelbox's new form-based MMC editor - Read on LabelBox
- Introducing our latest image generation model in the API - Read on OpenAI
- Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025 - Read on Anthropic
- Integrating Arize AI and Amazon Bedrock Agents: A Comprehensive Guide to Tracing, Evaluation, and Monitoring - Read on Arize
- LibreEval: A Smarter Way to Detect LLM Hallucinations - Read on Arize
- What Exactly Are AI Agents? Why OpenAI and LangChain Are Fighting Over Their Definition? - Read on Zilliz
- Build secure, scalable agentic AI workflows with Rubrik Annapurna and Pinecone - Read on Pinecone
- Tool up: Pinecone’s first MCP servers are here - Read on Pinecone
- How to think about agent frameworks - Read on LangChain
- Bending without breaking: optimal design patterns for effective agents - Read on Llama Index
- Accelerating RLHF with vLLM, Best Practice from OpenRLHF - Read on vLLM
- UFO2: The Desktop AgentOS - Read on arXiv
- TAPIP3D: Tracking Any Point in Persistent 3D Geometry - Read on arXiv
- Stop Summation: Min-Form Credit Assignment Is All Process Reward Model Needs for Reasoning - Read on arXiv
- EasyEdit2: An Easy-to-use Steering Framework for Editing Large Language Models - Read on arXiv
- KGMEL: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Multimodal Entity Linking - Read on arXiv
- FlowReasoner: Reinforcing Query-Level Meta-Agents - Read on arXiv
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