AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #82

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: artificial intelligence swept the Nobel Prizes, Amazon's first autonomous robot, YUOLO11 is fast, Tesla shows off cybercamp and robots, Gradio 5 is here for production, Serve Fine-tuned LLMs with Ollama, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• The week that artificial intelligence swept the Nobel Prizes - Read on The Financial times
• I'm Amazon's first autonomous robot. Follow me around on my typical workday - Read on Amazon
• This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home - Read on TechCrunch
• Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s ‘Cybercab,’ plans to bring autonomous driving tech to other models in 2025 - Read on AP News
• I Used AI to Help With Grief. Here's What I Learned - Read on CNET

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• YOLO11: Faster Than You Can Imagine! - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Welcome, Gradio 5 - Read on Hugging Face
• Scaling AI-Based Data Processing with Hugging Face + Dask - Read on Hugging Face
• Serve Fine-tuned LLMs with Ollama - Read on Union.ai
• Multimodal AI: A Guide to Open-Source Vision Language Models - Read on BentoML
• Best Practicies for Monitoring and Securing RAG Systems in Production - Read on WhyLabs
• Efficient LLM fine-tuning with PEFT - Read on labelbox
• OpenAI Swarm for Agents - Read on GitHub

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

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• AI Book Club: Building Recommendation Systems in Python and JAX: Week 2 discussion | Oct 15th - RSVP on Meetup
• 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:

• Towards high-quality (maybe synthetic) datasets | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Data Contracts: The Key to Data Quality, with Chad Sanderson - Listen on SuperDataScience
• AI Agents: Substance or Snake Oil with Arvind Narayanan - LIsten on TWiML
• Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on 700+ LLM enterprise use cases | Weights & Biases - Listen on YouTube
• Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrustn - Listen on Latent Space
• U.S. Elections AI Readiness - Read on Anthropic
• Pushing Boundaries of Visual LLMs with New Research - Read on Groundlight
• What is Mixture of Experts (MoE)? - Read on Zilliz

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering - Read on arXiv
• Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modeling - Read on arXiv
• Aria: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model - Read on arXiv
• Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human - Read on arXiv
• Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian Head Avatar - 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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