AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #100

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP, Manus draws DeepSeek comparison, MCP bridges LLMs to apps, New Activation Checkpointing Techniques in PyTorch, Reproducible Workflows for Compound AI, Introducing the Weaviate Query Agent, What Are Agentic Workflows? and much more!

??? Shoutouts

• ??? My next workshop 3/12: Fine-Tune, Serve & Scale LLM Workflows
• ?? Next AI book club reading: AI Book Club: AI Engineering on 3/25 - RSVP on LinkedIn or Meetup.
• ?? My latest blog post: Reproducible Workflows for Compound AI: Reliable and Scalable AI Development - Read on Union.ai

?? AI News & Stories:

• Anthropic’s Recommendations to OSTP for the U.S. AI Action Plan - Read on Anthropic
• Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research and education with AI - Read on OpenAI
• Stability AI Announces Investment from WPP and New Partnership to Shape the Future of Media and Entertainment Production - Read on Stability AI
• Announcing our Series A and LlamaCloud General Availability - Read on LlamIndex
• Microsoft creates in-house AI models it believes rival OpenAI’s - Read on Fortune
• New Chinese AI agent (Manus) draws DeepSeek comparison - Read on Axios

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Anthropic’s MCP Bridges LLMs to the Apps They Need - Read on The New Stack
• Current and New Activation Checkpointing Techniques in PyTorch - Read on PyTorch
• FineTuning RetinaNet for Wildlife Detection with PyTorch: A Step-by-Step Tutorial - Read on LearnOpenCV
• From diagnosis to treatment: Advancing AMIE for longitudinal disease management - Read on Google Research
• LLM Inference on Edge: A Fun and Easy Guide to run LLMs via React Native on your Phone! - Read on Hugging Face
• Reproducible Workflows for Compound AI: Reliable and Scalable AI Development - Read on Union.ai
• A Deepdive into Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality - Read on Hugging Face
• Building foundation models for understanding human pathology using DINOv2 - Read on Meta AI
• The Complete Guide to DeepSeek Models: From V3 to R1 and Beyond - Read on BentoML
• What Is Data Lineage? Tracking Data Through Enterprise Systems - Read on Neo4j
• The power of human expertise: Transforming audio and multimodal STEM models with Labelbox Services - Read on Label Box
• How to Build an AI Sentiment Analysis Tool - Read on Encord
• This Visual Illusions Benchmark Makes Me Question the Power of VLMs - Read on Voxel51
• Mistral OCR - Read on Mistral
• Empowering product development with an agentic workflow - Read on Mistral
• GRPO for Vision - Teaching an LLM to Reason about Images - Read on Groundlight
• Build More Accurate AI Apps Through Fast Experimentation with Arize Phoenix, Langflow, and NVIDIA - Read in Arize
• Prompt Management from First Principles - Read on Arize
• Bringing AI to Legal Tech: The Role of Vector Databases in Enhancing LLM Guardrails - Read on Ziliz
• Build Anything with MCP Agents - Watch on YouTube
• Introducing the Weaviate Query Agent - Read on Weaviate
• What Are Agentic Workflows? Patterns, Use Cases, Examples, and More - Read on Weaviate
• Report: Trends in Vision AI 2025 - Read on Roboflow
• Accelerate Labeling and Model Evaluation with Prompts - Read on HumanSignal
• Hugging Face Reasoning Course - Read on Hugging Face
• Structured outputs with QwQ 32B - Read on BoundaryML

?? Upcoming AI Events

??? Join me live at my next AI workshop on 3/12: LLM Observability: Fine-Tune & Serve LLMs for Production RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

• AI Ready Data: Forging the Path to Reliable and Scalable AI | Mar 12th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Fine-Tune, Serve & Scale LLM Workflows - LLMOps Workshop | Mar 12th - RSVP on Eventbrite
• NVIDIA GTCV (San Jose) | Mar 17 - 21st - Register on NVIDIA
• Make a NotebookLM Clone with Open Weights & Models | Mar 19th - Register on Eventbrite
• AI Engineering - AI Book Club | Mar 25 - RSVP on LinkedIn
• Fine-Tune, Serve and Scale Workflows for Large Language Models - RSVP on Data Science Dojo
• [Seattle] Startup Summit 2025 - AI Dev Tools | Mar 28 - RSVP on Luma
• AI Book Club: AI Agents in Action | April 29th - Register on LinkedIn

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• LLM Observability: Tracing, Evaluations, and Real-Time Insights with John Gilhuly from Arize - Listen on Union.ai
• Roboflow Simplifies Computer Vision for Developers and the Enterprise - Listen on NVIDIA AI Podcast
• Build a workspace of AI agents | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on changelog
• LLMs and Agents Are Overhyped, with Dr. Andriy Burkov - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Inside s1: An o1-Style Reasoning Model That Cost Under $50 to Train with Niklas Muennighoff - Listen on TWiML

?? Latest AI/ML Research Papers

• EAGLE-3: Scaling up Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models via Training-Time Test - Read on arXiv
• CrowdSelect: Synthetic Instruction Data Selection with Multi-LLM Wisdom - Read on arXiv
• RSQ: Learning from Important Tokens Leads to Better Quantized LLMs - Read on arXiv
• Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning - Read on arXiv
• Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving Feedforward Control in Multi-Agent Systems - 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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