AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #78

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Agentic AI: The Next Big Breakthrough, Salesforce teams up with Anthropic, Hugging Face partners with TruffleHog, CUDA-Free Inference for LLMs, Creating and Validating Synthetic Datasets, Building a Smarter RAG-Based Chatbot, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• Meta Llama: Everything you need to know about the open generative AI model - Read on TechCrunch
• Agentic AI: The Next Big Breakthrough That's Transforming Business And Technology - Read on Forbes
• Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms - Read on Cornell News
• FedEx invests in AI robotics company Nimble to boost its supply chain business - Read on Reuters
• AI?Climate Hero Or Villian? - Read on Forbes
• Roblox is launching a generative AI that builds 3D environments in a snap - Read on MIT Tech Review

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Build powerful RAG pipelines with LlamaIndex and Amazon Bedrock - Read on AWS
• CUDA-Free Inference for LLMs - Read on PyTorch
• Handwritten Text Recognition using OCR - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Hugging Face partners with TruffleHog to Scan for Secrets - Read on Hugging Face
• Best Practices for Tuning TensorRT-LLM for Optimal Serving with BentoML - Read on BentoML
• Sensor Fusion Ignites Next-Gen Fire Detection - Read on Edge impulse
• Salesforce teams up with Anthropic to enhance Einstein capabilities with Claude - Read on Anthropic
• 5 Computer Vision Projects to Use at Home (with Some Code) - Read on Groundlight
• Solving the Issue with Robot Tissue - Read on Hackster
• Creating and Validating Synthetic Datasets for LLM Evaluation & Experimentation - Read on Arize
• Late Chunking: Balancing Precision and Cost in Long Context Retrieval - Read on Weaviate
• LlamaIndex: Building a Smarter RAG-Based Chatbot - Read on PyImageSearch

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

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• AI Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Week 2 discussion | Sep 10th - RSVP on Meetup
• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows - Free MLOps Workshop | Sep 10 - RSVP on Eventbrite
• AI meetup (Seattle): AI, LLMs, and ML | Sep 10th - Register on AI camp
• LLM Alignment: Techniques for Building Human-Aligned AI | September 11th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• AI Seminar: Google Gemini and Vertex AI | Sep 12th - Register on AI Camp
• LLMs Night (San Francisco) with NVIDIA | Sep 17th - Register on AI Camp
• AI Talks at Union (Seattle): Evaluating AI Agents & LLMs | Sep 18 - Register on Eventbrite
• Visual AI in Healthcare | Sep 19th - Register on Voxel51
• Open Source AI Hackathon #9 (Seattle) | Sep 21st - Register on Luma
• Open-Source AI and Research Infrastructure | Sep 24th - Register on AI Camp
• Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines | Sep 15th - Register on Union
• Recommender Systems: Metrics, Trends, and Challenges | Oct 2nd - Register on DataScienceDojo
• Developing Your Career in ML by Studying | Oct 15th - Register on Luma

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Automated Design of Agentic Systems with Shengran Hu - Listen on TWiML
• Machina Labs’ Edward Mehr on Autonomous Blacksmith Bots and More - Listen on NVIDIA
• AI is more than GenAI | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Polars: Faster DataFrame Ops, with Marco Gorelli - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation - Listen on Latent Space
• Harnessing Generative AI for Effective Digital Advertising Campaigns - Listen on AI Engineering Podcast

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• VILA-U: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation - Read on arXiv
• Exploring Foundation Models for Synthetic Medical Imaging: A Study on Chest X-Rays and Fine-Tuning Techniques - Read on arXiv
• Question-Answering Dense Video Events - Read on arXiv
• FLUX that Plays Music - Read on arXiv
• LongLLaVA: Scaling Multi-modal LLMs to 1000 Images Efficiently via Hybrid Architecture - 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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