AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #71

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: AI to boost cancer detection rates in England by 8%, how to evaluate RAG applications, Mistral and OpenAI launch new small LLMs, GroupMamba, Multi-LoRA, The Future of Computer Vision , and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• Robot Dog Cleans Up Beaches With Foot-Mounted Vacuums - Read on IEEE
• Deus Robotics Enables Robots To ‘Speak’ The Same Language - Read on Forbes
• Perceptual Robotics Unveils Next-Generation AI for Renewable Energy - Read on Dronelife
• Chinese companies offer to 'resurrect' deceased loved ones with AI avatars - Read on NPR
• The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast - Read on The New York Times
• Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win - Read on Wired
• GPs use AI to boost cancer detection rates in England by 8% - Read on The Gaurdian

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Introduction to ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2): Tutorial on ROS 2 Working, DDS, ROS 1 RMW, Topics, Nodes, Publisher, Subscriber in Python - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Docmatix - A huge dataset for Document Visual Question Answering - Read on Hugging Face
• From Ollama to OpenLLM: Running LLMs in the Cloud - Read on BentoML
• Improving Camera Traps to Identify Unknown Species with GPT-4o - Read on Edge Impulse
• SmolLM - blazingly fast and remarkably powerful - Read on Hugging Face
• Accelerating code migrations with AI - Read on Google Research
• This Smart Traffic Management System Can Handle 5,000 Autonomous Drones, Researchers Say - Read on Hackster
• TGI Multi-LoRA: Deploy Once, Serve 30 models - Read on Hugging Face
• How to Evaluate and Improve RAG Applications for Safe Production Deployment - Read on WhyLabs
• Mistral NeMo: our new best small model - Read on Mistral
• GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence - Read on OpenAI
• LLM Function Calling: Evaluating Tool Calls In LLM Pipelines - Read on Arize
• Building a Conversational AI Agent with Long-Term Memory Using LangChain and Milvus - Read on Zilliz
• Tomato Leaf Disease Detection and Diagnosis using Computer Vision - Read on RoboFlow

??? Upcoming AI Events (Ordered by date):

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• AI Book Club: Prompt Engineering for Generative AI | July 23rd - RSVP on Meetup
• Intro to AI Pipelines: Build Reliable ML Workflows | July 24th - Register on Union.ai
• Python talk night at GitHub (Seattle) | July 24th - Register on Meetup
• From ML Engineering to AI Engineering: Navigating the Shift to Foundation Models with Chip Huyen | July 25th- Register on AI Camp
• Seattle Computer Vision Nerds (Seattle) | July 25th - Register on Meetup
• Sora: Exploring Ethics, AI, and Personalization | July 31st - Register on DataScienceDojo
• AI Seminar (Virtual): Google Gemini and Vertex AI | July 31st - Register on AI Camp
• Advanced RAG | July 31st - Register on Weaviate
• RAG Hack Night at GitHub (SF) | August 13th - Register on Luma
• Hybrid Chatbots: Merging LLMs and Classification Models | Aug 21st - Register on DataScienceDojo
• AI Book Club: Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision | August 27th - RSVP on Meetup
• Pre-Training LLMs on Personal Computers | Aug 28th - Register on DataScienceDojo
• LLM Alignment: Techniques for Building Human-Aligned AI | September 11th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• AI Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering | September 24th - Register on Meetup

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Mamba, Mamba-2 and Post-Transformer Architectures for Generative AI with Albert Gu - Listen on TWiML
• Benchmarks 201: Why Leaderboards > Arenas >> LLM-as-Judge - Listen on Latent Space
• Merged LLMs Are Smaller And More Capable, with Arcee AI’s Mark McQuade and Charles Goddard - Listen on SuperDataScience
• The first real-time voice assistant | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• The Future of Computer Vision and Robotics | Leo Dirac - Groundlight AI - Listen on YouTube

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• GroupMamba: Parameter-Efficient and Accurate Group Visual State Space Model - Read on arXiv
• Qwen2-Audio Technical Report - Read on arXiv
• IMAGDressing-v1: Customizable Virtual Dressing - Read on arXiv
• Scaling Diffusion Transformers to 16 Billion Parameters - Read on arXiv
• Grounding Image Matching in 3D with MASt3R - Read on arXiv
• GRUtopia: Dream General Robots in a City at Scale - Read on arXiv
• VISA: Reasoning Video Object Segmentation via Large Language Models - 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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