AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #112

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: new hugging face humanoid robots, Waymo expanding to new cities, agentic retrieval, Introducing BLIP3-o, Groundlight's MCP Server, agents with the Mistral Agents API, Getting Started with Qwen3, Visual Agents at CVPR 2025, Full-Stack LLM and RAG Observability, and much more!

📰 AI News & Stories:

• The State of Enterprise AI in 2025: Measured Progress Over Hype - Read on Weaviate

• Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots - Read on TechCrunch

• Snorkel AI Raises $100 Million To Build Better Evaluators For AI Models - Read on Forbes

• Waymo begins testing robotaxis in Houston | They're also going to many more cities soon - Read on Axios

• Meta Teams Up With Anduril to Make AI-Powered Military Products - Read on Bloomberg

💻 ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Introducing BLIP3-o: The Unified Multimodal Model - Read on LearnOpenCV

• CodeAgents + Structure: A Better Way to Execute Actions - Read on Hugging Face

• Serving on Your Terms: Full-Stack LLM and RAG Observability with Arize + Union - Read on Union ai

• Under the Covers With LightRAG: Retrieval - Read on Neo4j

• Visual Agents at CVPR 2025 - Read on Voxel51

• Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API - Read on mistral

• Building Computer Vision Applications with the Groundlight MCP Server - Read on Groundlight

• Getting Started with Qwen3 – The Thinking Expert - Read on LearnOpenCV

• Why AI Databases Don't Need SQL - Read on Zilliz

• Cascading retrieval with multi-vector representations: balancing efficiency and effectiveness - Read on Pinecone

• RAG is dead, long live agentic retrieval - Read on LlamaIndex

• Guest Post: Building a Data Team that Never Sleeps with Pydantic AI - Read on Pydantic

• Top Image Annotation Tools for AI Projects in 2025 - Read on Encord

• Architect a mature generative AI foundation on AWS - Read on AWS

• Run LLMs on AnythingLLM Faster With NVIDIA RTX AI PCs - Read on NVIDIA

Join my next workshop on 6/11/25: Fine-tune & Serve LLMs with LoRA & QLoRA for Production

📅 Upcoming AI Events

• [Seattle] AI meetup (Seattle): GenAI, LLMs, and Agent | Jun 3rd - RSVP on AI Camp

• [SF] AI Ignite Pitch Battle | Jun 3rd - RSVP on AI Camp

• Google Build with AI Virtual Mixer | Jun 6th - RSVP on AI Camp

• Intro to AI Agents and Agentic Systems | June 11th - RSVP on MongoDB

• Fine-tune & Serve LLMs with LoRA & QLoRA for Production | June 11th - RSVP on eventbrite

• AI Book Club: The Hundred-Page Language Models Book: hands-on with PyTorch | June 17th - RSVP on LinkedIn

• Visual AI in Healthcare | June 25th - RSVP on Voxel51

• [SF] The AI Agent Evaluation Conference | June 25th - RSVP on Arize

• AI Book Club: Reinforcement Learning for Finance | July 29 - RSVP on LinkedIn

• AI Book Club: Building Agentic AI Systems | Aug 26 - RSVP on Meetup

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• NVIDIA’s Bartley Richardson on Why ‘Agentic AI Is Next-Level Automation’ - Listen on NVIDIA

• Federated learning in production (part 1) - Listen on Practical AI

• Conversational AI is Overhauling Data Analytics, with Martin Brunthaler - Listen on SuperDataScience

• Google I/O 2025 Special Edition - Listen on TWiML

📝 Latest AI/ML Research Papers

• HunyuanVideo-Avatar: High-Fidelity Audio-Driven Human Animation for Multiple Characters - Read on arXiv

• syftr: Pareto-Optimal Generative AI - Read on arXiv

• AlphaEvolve: A Learning Framework to Discover Novel Alphas in Quantitative Investment - Read on arXiv

• Alita: Generalist Agent Enabling Scalable Agentic Reasoning with Minimal Predefinition and Maximal Self-Evolution - Read on arXiv

• Learning to Reason without External Rewards - Read on arXiv

• OpenS2V-Nexus: A Detailed Benchmark and Million-Scale Dataset for Subject-to-Video Generation - 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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