AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #101

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: YOLOE: Real-Time Seeing Anything, Block Diffusion, OpenAI's new tools for building agents, ensorFlow 2.19, The Power of Community in AI Development, and much more!

??? Shoutouts

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

?? AI News & Stories:

• The Power of Community in AI Development - Read on the Verge
• Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments - Read on TechCrunch
• AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own code - Read on TechCrunch
• As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back - Read on AP News

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• New tools for building agents - Read on OpenAI
• Smart Robotics: Definition & How it Works - Read on Encord
• Scaling Recommendation Systems Training to Thousands of GPUs with 2D Sparse Parallelism - Read on PyTorch
• What's new in TensorFlow 2.19 - Read on TensorFlow
• GraphRAG: Now Faster and Cost-Effective for Medical Document Analysis - Read on LearnOpenCV
• LeRobot goes to driving school - Read on Hugging Face
• Welcome Gemma 3: Google's all new multimodal, multilingual, long context open LLM - Read on Hugging Face
• Introducing the OpenMV AE3 and N6 Cameras - Read on Hackster
• Graph Database vs. Relational Database: What’s The Difference? - Read on Neo4J
• Labelbox unveils integrated VS Code IDE: Generate sophisticated training code quickly - Read on LabelBox
• Token-saving updates on the Anthropic API - Read on Anthropic
• GRPO for vision - Teaching an LLM to reason about images - Read on GroundLight AI
• How to Use Anthropic MCP Server with Milvus - Read on Zilliz
• Introducing the Weaviate Transformation Agent - Read on Weaviate
• Retrieval Inference for scale and performance- Read on Pinecone
• How do I speed up my agent? - Read on LangChain

?? Upcoming AI Events

?? Come see me at booth #2022 at NVIDA GTC this week!

• 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:

• Optimizing for efficiency with IBM’s Granite - Listen on Practical AI
• AI Should Make Humans Wiser (But It Isn’t), with Varun Godbole - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Imagine while Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought with Chengzu Li - Listen on TWiML
• Building Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning - Listen on Latent Space
• The Power of Community in AI Development with Oumi - Listen on AI Engineeirng Podcast

?? Latest AI/ML Research Papers

• YOLOE: Real-Time Seeing Anything - Read on arXiv
• Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models - Read on arXiv
• LBM: Latent Bridge Matching for Fast Image-to-Image Translation - Read on arXiv
• Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k - Read on arXiv
• Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning - Read on arXiv
• LMM-R1: Empowering 3B LMMs with Strong Reasoning Abilities Through Two-Stage Rule-Based RL - 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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