AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #81

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: OpenAI dev day, Meta Movie Gen, Raspberry Pi's AI Eye, Future of Programming with AI, Deploying Llama 3.2 Vision with OpenLLM, FiftyOne 1.0, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• How Meta Movie Gen could usher in a new AI-enabled era for content creators - Read on Meta AI
• OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time - Read on TechCrunch
• Waymo is adding the Hyundai Ioniq 5 to its robotaxi fleet - Read on The Verge
• James Cameron, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Joins Stability AI Board of Directors - Read on Stability AI
• Serve Robotics and Wing to trial robot-to-drone delivery in Dallas - Read on TechCrunch
• Meghan Daley: Shaping the Future of NASA’s Robotic Simulations - Read on NASA
• AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services - Read on TechCrunch
• OpenAI Fast-Tracks AI Agents. How Do We Balance Benefits With Risks? - Read on Forbes
• Brave New World: Leo AI and Ollama Bring RTX-Accelerated Local LLMs to Brave Browser Users - Read on NVIDIA

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• PyTorch Conference 2024 Recap: On Fire ??- Read on PyTorch
• Exploring DINO: Self-Supervised Transformers for Road Segmentation with ResNet50 and U-Net - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Augmented object intelligence with XR-Objects - Read on Google Research
• Introducing the Open FinLLM Leaderboard - Read on Hugging Face
• Introducing the Digital Twin Catalog from Reality Labs Research - Read on Meta AI
• Deploying Llama 3.2 Vision with OpenLLM: A Step-by-Step Guide - Read on bentoML
• Flyte at Hacktoberfest 2024 - Read on Union.ai
• Raspberry Pi's AI Eye: Hands-On with the Raspberry Pi AI Camera Module - Read on Hackster
• OpenAI Structured Outputs with Label Studio - Read on Human Signal
• Announcing FiftyOne 1.0: A Major Milestone to Making Visual AI a Reality - Read on Voxel51
• Webhooks in Label Studio: When And How To Use Them - Read on Lable Studio
• The Role of OpenTelemetry in LLM Observability - Read on Arize
• Building a GraphRAG Agent With Neo4j and Milvus - Read on Zilliz
• OpenAI’s DevDay 2024: 4 major updates that will make AI more accessible and affordable - Read on Venturebeat

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

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• AI Book Club: Building Recommendation Systems in Python and JAX: Week 2 discussion | Oct 8th - RSVP on Meetup
• Building Intelligent Chatbots: Create an Agentic RAG Pipeline | Oct 9th - Register on Eventbrite
• Data Preparation Toolkit for LLM Application Developers | Oct 9th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• Developing Your Career in ML by Studying | Oct 15th - Register on Luma
• AI meetup (Seattle): AI, LLMs, and ML | Oct 15th - Register on AI Camp
• Developing Your Career in ML by Studying | Oct 15th - Register on Luma
• Build Scalable Workflows for LLM Fine-Tuning | Oct 16th - Register on Eventbrite
• Inside the AI data factory: How to produce high-quality data at scale - Register on Labelbox
• Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines | Oct 23rd - Register on Eventbrite
• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows | Oct 30th - Register on Eventbrite
• AI Agents in Production | Nov 13th - Register on MLOps Community
• Multi Agent Framework: A Comprehensive Crash Course | Nov 13th - Register on Data Science Dojo

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast - Listen on YouTube
• NVIDIA's Josh Parker on How AI and Accelerated Computing Drive Sustainability - Listen on NVIDIA
• Understanding what's possible, doable & scalable | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Virtual Humans and AI Clones, with Natalie Monbiot - Listen on SuperDataScience
• AI Agents for Data Analysis with Shreya Shankar - Listen on TWiML
• Elevating ML infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson | Gradient Decent - Listen on YouTube
• Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024) - Listen on Latent Space

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• Scaling Proprioceptive-Visual Learning with Heterogeneous Pre-trained Transformers - Read on arXiv
• A Survey on the Honesty of Large Language Models - Read on arXiv
• Law of the Weakest Link: Cross Capabilities of Large Language Models - Read on arXiv
• Interpreting and Editing Vision-Language Representations to Mitigate Hallucinations - 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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