AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #86

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Hugging Face and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open-Source AI Robotics, Large Behavior Models, Mistral Launches Batch & Moderation APIs, Bedrock Prompt Management, A New Chapter for fast ai, and much more!

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?? AI News & Stories:

• Hugging Face and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open-Source AI Robotics Research and Development - Read on NVIDIA
• Chipotle’s Autocado partner has been acquired by Serve Robotics - Read on Nation Restaurant News
• OpenAI hires Meta’s former Orion head to lead its robotics efforts - Read on CNBC
• Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations - Read on TechCrunch
• US ordered TSMC to halt shipments to China of chips used in AI applications - Read on Reuters
• Large Behavior Models Surpass Large Language Models To Create AI That Walks And Talks - Read on Forbes
• Anthropic, Amazon, and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to the Defense Department - Read on Inc

?? ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Relationships are complicated! An analysis of relationships between datasets on the Web - Google Research
• The tinyML Foundation Undergoes an Evolution: Meet the EDGE AI FOUNDATION - Read on Hackster
• Wayve Accelerates Autonomous Driving Innovation with Flyte’s Scalable Orchestration - Read on Union
• Mistral Launches Batch API - Read on Mistral AI
• Mistral Launches Moderation API - Read on Mistral AI
• o1-preview Time Series Evaluations - Read on Arize
• Safe RAG with HydroX AI and Zilliz: PII Masking for Responsible GenAI - Read on Zilliz
• What is Agentic RAG - Read on Weaviate
• A New Chapter for fast ai: How To Solve It With Code - Read on Answer.ai
• NVIDIA Advances Robot Learning and Humanoid Development With New AI and Simulation Tools - Read on NVIDIA
• Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now available in GA - Read on AWS

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

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• Join the 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with Google |Nov 11th - Register on Google
• Multi Agent Framework: A Comprehensive Crash Course | Nov 13th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• AI Agents in Production | Nov 13th - Register on MLOps Community
• AI Workflow Essentials (Seattle) | Nov 14th - RSVP on Luma
• IMPACT 2024 Virtual Summit for Data Observability | Nov 14th - Register on AI Camp
• Build Scalable Workflows for LLM Fine-Tuning | Nov 20th - Register on Eventbrite
• AI Book Club: The Kaggle Book | Nov 26th - RSVP on Meetup
• Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines | Dec 18th - Register on Eventbrite
• PyCascades 2025 (Portland) | Feb 8-9th - Register on PyCasecades

??? AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• AI is changing the cybersecurity threat landscape | Practical AI podcast - Listen on Changelog
• The 10 Reasons AI Projects Fail, with Dr. Martin Goodson - Listen on SuperDataScience
• An Agentic Mixture of Experts for DevOps with Sunil Mallya - Listen on TWiML
• What’s the path to AGI? A conversation with Turing Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth \ Gradient Decent - Listen on YouTube
• How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever - Listen on Latent Space

?? Latest ML Research Papers

• Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent - Read on arXiv
• ADOPT: Modified Adam Can Converge with Any β2 with the Optimal Rate - Read on arXiv
• TableGPT2: A Large Multimodal Model with Tabular Data Integration - Read on arXiv
• HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieved Knowledge in RAG Systems - Read on arXiv
• End-to-End Navigation with Vision Language Models: Transforming Spatial Reasoning into Question-Answering - 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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