AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #83

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Meta AI partnering with Blumhouse for Movie gen, world models are key to human-level AI, Mistral intros "the world’s best edge models", Evaluating fairness in ChatGPT, Deploying A LangGraph Agent, MicroFlow: a Rust-based ML framework, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• Partnering with Blumhouse, creators, and the entertainment industry as we develop Meta Movie Gen - Read on Meta AI
• Tensions with OpenAI underscore Microsoft’s need to ensure its own AI future - Read on GeekWire
• How Digital Twins Are Driving Efficiency and Cutting Emissions in Manufacturing - Read on NVIDIA
• Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and more head to Las Vegas to tout health-care AI tools - Read on CNBC
• Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training - Read on the Verge
• Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out - Read on TechCrunch

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Introducing the world’s best edge models- Read on Mistral
• DETR: Overview and Inference - Read on LearnOpenCV
• The Path to Achieve PyTorch Performance Boost on Windows CPU - Read on PyTorch
• HDR photo editing with machine learning - Read on Google Research
• Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR - Read on Meta AI
• Building an iOS App to Serve a Fine-Tuned Llama Model with Union and MLC-LLM - Read on Union.ai
• Deploying A LangGraph Agent Application with An Open-Source Model - Read on BentoML
• Your First Robot Arm: Building a Smart Pick-and-Place System with Edge Impulse - Read on Edge Impulse
• For Better TinyML, Just Go with the Flow - Read on Hackster
• GraphRAG Python Package: Accelerating GenAI With Knowledge Graphs - Read on Neo4j
• Get a Portable Turn-Key RAG Stack with Verba and Flox - Read on FLOX
• Evaluating fairness in ChatGPT - Read on OpenAI
• Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy - Read on Anthropic
• Google’s NotebookLM and the Future of AI-Generated Audio - Read on Arize
• The Importance of Data Engineering for Successful AI with Airbyte and Zilliz - Read on Zilliz
• Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Read on Weaviate
• Accelerate Your Named Entity Recognition Tasks with LLM-Powered Pre-Annotations - Read on HumanSignal

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

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• AI Book Club: Building Recommendation Systems in Python and JAX: Week 5 discussion | Oct 29th - RSVP on Meetup
• 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
• Introduction to Weaviate | October 29th - Register on Weaviate
• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows | Oct 30th - Register on Eventbrite
• AI Agents in Production | Nov 13th - Register on MLOps Community
• AI meetup (Seattle): AI, LLMs, and ML | Nov 6th - Register on AI Camp
• AI Seminar (Virtual #8): Google Gemini and Vertex AI | Nov 6th - Register on AI Camp
• SeaGL (Seattle) | Nov 8 - 9th - Register on SeaGL
• Multi Agent Framework: A Comprehensive Crash Course | Nov 13th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• IMPACT 2024 Virtual Summit for Data Observability | Nov 14th - Register on AI Camp

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Practical workflow orchestration | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Are “Citizen Data Scientists” A Myth? With Keith McCormick - Listen on SuperDataScience
• ML Models for Safety-Critical Systems with Lucas García - Listen on TWiML
• Building the Open Source AI Revolution (with Hugging Face CEO, Clem Delangue) - Listen on Acquired

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• CoTracker3: Simpler and Better Point Tracking by Pseudo-Labelling Real Videos - Read on arXiv
• LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation - Read on arXiv
• Mini-Omni2: Towards Open-source GPT-4o with Vision, Speech and Duplex Capabilities - Read on arXiv
• DepthSplat: Connecting Gaussian Splatting and Depth - Read on arXiv
• Movie Gen: A Cast of Media Foundation Models - Read on arXiv
• HART: Efficient Visual Generation with Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer - 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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