AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #75

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Welcome FalconMamba, NASA’s New Chief of AI, OpenAI SWE-bench Verified, Introduction to ggml, OpenResearcher, and much more!

📅 Join me live at my next workshop on 8/20: Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

📰 AI News & Stories:

• National Healthcare Group adopts AI for lung, heart disease screening - Read on Healthcare It News
• LKQ Corporation uses Groundlight AI to revolutionize quality control and inspection - Read on Groundlight
• Shake Shack partners with robotics firm for robot delivery - See on NBC
• Researchers develop hair-thin battery to power tiny robots - Read on TechCrunch
• People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices - Read on Vox
• NASA’s New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Is A Man On A Mission - Read on Forbes

💻 ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Welcome FalconMamba: The first strong attention-free 7B model - Read on Hugging Face
• Introducing SWE-bench Verified - Read on OpenAI
• Recommendation System using Vector Search with Qdrant - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Introduction to ggml - Read on Hugging Face
• How to Prune and Distill Llama-3.1 8B to an NVIDIA Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B Model - Read on NVIDIA
• Flyte on Azure: A Reference Implementation - Read on Union
• A Guide to Compound AI Systems - Read on BentoML
• Edge Impulse Launching Official Support for Seeed Grove Vision AI v2 - Read on Edge Impulse
• Raspberry Pi Unveils the Pico 2, Powered by the Dual-Architecture Quad-Core RP2350 - Read on Hackster
• How To Use Annotations To Collect Human Feedback On Your LLM Application - Read on Arize
• Streamlining the Deployment of Enterprise GenAI Apps with Efficient Management of Unstructured Data - Read on Zilliz
• Typing systems in Python - Read on Weaviate

🗣️ Upcoming AI Events (Ordered by date):

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• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows | Aug 20th - RSVP on Eventbrite
• Hybrid Chatbots: Merging LLMs and Classification Models | Aug 21st - Register on DataScienceDojo
• AI Book Club: Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision | August 27th - RSVP on Meetup
• Pre-Training LLMs on Personal Computers | Aug 28th - Register on DataScienceDojo
• Build Scalable Workflows for LLM Fine-Tuning - LLMOps Workshop | Aug 29th - Register on Eventbrite
• AI Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Week 1 discussion | Sep 3rd - RSVP on Meetup
• LLM Alignment: Techniques for Building Human-Aligned AI | September 11th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• AI Book Club: Fundamentals of Data Engineering | September 24th - Register on Meetup

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• Simplifying On-Device AI for Developers with Siddhika Nevrekar - Listen on TWiML
• Agentic AI, with Shingai Manjengwa - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Building Scalable ML Systems on Kubernetes - Listen on AI Engineering Podcast
• Only as good as the data | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog

📝 Latest ML Research Papers

• The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery - Read on arXiv
• LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs - Read on arXiv
• ControlNeXt: Powerful and Efficient Control for Image and Video Generation - Read on arXiv
• OpenResearcher: Unleashing AI for Accelerated Scientific Research - Read on arXiv
• FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Framework - 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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