AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #90

I'm at re:Invent this week! Stop by and see me at Booth # 1620

📅 Join me live at my next workshop on 12/18: Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines. RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

📰 AI News & Stories:

• Why Embodied Intelligence Is The Next Frontier Of AI - Read on Forbes
• Thailand and Vietnam Embrace Sovereign AI to Drive Economic Growth - Read on NVIDIA
• Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities - Read on Robot Report
• Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down—‘the low-hanging fruit is gone’ - Read on CNBC
• 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025 - Read on Microsoft
• X’s Grok AI chatbot is now available to all users - Read on the Verge
• Introducing ChatGPT Pro - Read on OpenAI

💻 ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Actors: Faster, Cheaper AI Workflows with Stateful Containers - Read on Union
• Latest NVIDIA AI, Robotics and Quantum Computing Software Comes to AWS - Read on NVIDIA
• Advancing AI trust with new responsible AI tools, capabilities, and resources - Read on AWS
• Accelerating 2D Dynamic Block Quantized Float8 GEMMs in Triton - Read on PyTorch
• Introducing Wake Vision: A High-Quality, Large-Scale Dataset for TinyML Computer Vision Applications - Read on TensorFlow
• Contrastive Learning – SimCLR and BYOL (With Code Example) - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Looking back at speculative decoding - Read on Google Reseach
• Welcome PaliGemma 2 – New vision language models by Google - Read on Hugging Face
• How good are LLMs at fixing their mistakes? - Read on Hugging Face
• Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing - Read on Meta AI
• Accelerate AI Application Development with BentoML Codespaces - Read on BentoML
• The Ultimate Guide to Edge AI - Read on Edge Impulse
• Getting tinyML Ready for Prime Time - Read on Hackster
• What Is GraphRAG? - Read on neo4j
• The NeurIPS 2024 Preshow: Zero-Shot Learning: A Misnomer? - Read on Voxel51
• Claude 3.5 Haiku on AWS Trainium2 and model distillation in Amazon Bedrock - Read on Anthropic
• Understanding Machine Learning Model Accuracy: A Practical Guide - Read on Groundlight
• Building an AI Agent that Thrives in the Real World - Read on Arize
• Introducing Weaviate Embeddings - Read on Weaviate
• Accelerate prototyping and development with Pinecone Local - Read on Pinecone

🗣️ Upcoming AI Events (Ordered by date):

Like reading books? Join the AI book club, where we read a new book every month!

• Secure AI Orchestration: Mitigate Model-centric Attacks | Dec 11th - Register on Eventbrite
• Intro to Object Detection & Computer Vision Pipelines | Dec 18th - Register on Eventbrite
• Unified Data Analytics with Microsoft Fabric: A Comprehensive Crash Course | Dec 18th - Register on Data Science Dojo
• AI Book Club: Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) | Dec 17th - Register on LinkedIn
• PyCascades 2025 (Portland) | Feb 8-9th - Register on PyCasecades

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• How AI Can Help Boost Disability Inclusion - Listen on the NVIDIA AI Podcast
• Full-duplex, real-time dialogue with Kyutai | Practical AI Podcast - Listen on Changelog
• Andrew Ng on AI Vision, Agents and Business Value - SuperDataScience
• AI at the Edge: Qualcomm AI Research at NeurIPS 2024 with Arash Behboodi - Listen on TWiML
• Bolt new, Flow Engineering for Code Agents, and >$8m ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper - Listen on Laten Space
• The Complex World of Generative AI Governance - Listen on the AI Engineering Podcast

📝 Latest ML Research Papers

• HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generative Models - Read on arXiv
• Infinity: Scaling Bitwise AutoRegressive Modeling for High-Resolution Image Synthesis - Read on arXiv
• VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models - Read on arXiv
• Florence-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Generative Vision Encoder and Depth-Breadth Fusion - Read on arXiv
• emg2pose: A Large and Diverse Benchmark for Surface Electromyographic Hand Pose Estimation - 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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