AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #72

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Llama 3.1, SearchGPT, Improving RAG with HyDE,Mistral Large 2, Kodiak self-driving off-road, building real-world LLM products, and much more!

Join me live at my next fireside chat: AI Observability for LLMs with Cam Young from Arize! RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

?? AI News & Stories:

• Kodiak Robotics is taking self-driving trucks off-road to reach profitability faster - Read on TechCrunch
• SearchGPT Prototype - Read on OpenAI
• Demystifying AI-Assisted Artistry With Adobe Apps Using NVIDIA RTX - Read on NVIDIA
• FCC pursues new rules for AI in political ads, but changes may not take effect before the election - Read on AP News
• Agility Robotics’ humanoid Digit robot is working hard at its first real job - Read on Fortune
• PepsiCo is using robotics and AI-powered crop planning to transform its supply chain - Read on Business Insider
• JPMorgan launches in-house chatbot as AI-based research analyst, FT reports - Read on Reuters

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date - Read on Meta
• Introduction to Feature Matching Using Neural Networks - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Improving Information Retrieval and RAG with Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) - Read on Zilliz
• Different Ways to Instrument Your LLM Application - Read on Arize
• Deep Dive on the Hopper TMA Unit for FP8 GEMMs - Read on PyTorch
• A step towards making heart health screening accessible for billions with PPG signals - Read on Google Research
• Intro to AI Pipelines: Build Reliable ML Workflows - Watch on YouTube
• Using OpenAI Whisper to Train a Tiny Keyword Spotting Model — in Any Language - Read on Edge Impulse
• What Is a Knowledge Graph? - Read on Neo4j
• Enhanced synthetic data generation with human-in-the-loop supervision using Llama 3.1 and Labelbox - Read on Labelbox
• we are announcing Mistral Large 2 - Read on Mistral
• LAVE: Zero-shot VQA Evaluation on Docmatix with LLMs - Do We Still Need Fine-Tuning? - Read on Hugging Face
• Advanced RAG Techniques - Read on Weaviate

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

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• 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
• AI Observability for LLMs | Cam Young - Arize | Aug 15th - RSVP on Eventbrite
• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows | Aug 20th - RSVP on Eventbrite
• 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
• AI Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Week 1 discussion - RSVP on Meetup
• 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:

• How Georgia Tech’s AI Makerspace Is Preparing the Future Workforce for AI - Listen on NVIDIA
• Hyperventilating over the Gartner AI Hype Cycle | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog
• How to Thrive in Your (Data Science) Career, with Daliana Liu - Listen on Super Data Science
• Building Real-World LLM Products with Fine-Tuning and More with Hamel Husain - Listen on TWiML
• From startup to $1.2B with Lambda's Stephen Balaban - Listen on YouTube
• Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI - Listen on Latent Space
• Expert Insights On Retrieval Augmented Generation And How To Build It - Listen on AI Engineering Podcast

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• Odyssey: Empowering Agents with Open-World Skills - Read on arXiv
• Stable-Hair: Real-World Hair Transfer via Diffusion Model - Read on arXiv
• HumanVid: Demystifying Training Data for Camera-controllable Human Image Animation - Read on arXiv
• Very Large-Scale Multi-Agent Simulation in AgentScope - Read on arXiv
• LION: Linear Group RNN for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds - Read on arXiv
• Wolf: Captioning Everything with a World Summarization Framework - 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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