AI, MLOps & Robotics Newsletter #92

The latest developments in AI, MLOps, and Robotics: Why OpenAI’s Structure Must Evolve, How AI Is Helping Us Do Better, smolagents: a simple library to build agents, Cache-Augmented Generation, LLMs as Judges: A Comprehensive Survey, and much more!

🗣️ Shoutouts

• 📅 Join me live at my next workshop on 1/22: Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows. RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

📰 AI News & Stories:

• Why OpenAI’s Structure Must Evolve To Advance Our Mission - Read on OpenAI
• How AI Is Helping Us Do Better—for the Planet and for Each Other - Read on NVIDIA
• Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well - Read on the Verge
• The Golden Opportunity for American AI - Read on Microsoft
• Robots emerge as next cash cow for Samsung, LG, Hyundai Motor - Read on The Korea times
• Multimodal AI In 2025: From Healthcare To eCommerce And Beyond - Read on Forbes

💻 ML Developer Tools & Resources:

• Introducing smolagents, a simple library to build agents - Read on Hugging Face
• A Guide to ComfyUI Custom Nodes - Read on BentoML
• The future of AI: Built with Llama - Read on Meta AI
• Improve RAG performance with torch.compile on AWS Graviton Processors - Read on PyTorch
• Image Captioning using ResNet and LSTM - Read on LearnOpenCV
• Understanding Transformer reasoning capabilities via graph algorithms - Read on Google Research
• Journey into Visual AI: Exploring FiftyOne Together — Part II Getting Started - Read on Voxel51
• LangChain State of AI 2024 Report - Read on LangChain
• Extract Nutrition Data from Food Labels with Computer Vision - Read on RoboFlow
• 10 Open-Source LLM Frameworks Developers Can’t Ignore in 2025 - Read on Zilliz
• LLMs as Judges: A Comprehensive Survey on LLM-Based Evaluation Methods - Read on Arize

📅 Upcoming AI Events

Join me live at my next workshop on 1/22: Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows. RSVP to attend live and get the recording.

• [Seattle] AI Hack Night - 2025 Kick Off | Jan 14th - RSVP on Luma
• Building Scalable Apps with Weaviate | Jan 14th - RSVP on Luma
• Simplifying Maths Behind AI | Jan 15th - RSVP on Data Science Dojo
• Python talk night at Slalom Consulting [Seattle] | Jan 15th - RSVP on Meetup
• AI Book Club: Building LLMs for Production | Jan 21st - RSVP on LinkedIn
• Intro to ML Pipelines: Build Reliable AI Workflows | Jan 22 - RSVP on Eventbrite
• WordCraft: Unlock Powerful AI-Powered Content Creation with LangGraph | Jan 22 - RSVP on Data Science Dojo
• [Seattle] MLOps: Agents, Transformers, And LLMs | Jan 23rd - RSVP on Luma
• RAG-Driven Generative AI - AI Book Club | Feb 25 - Register on LinkedIn
• PyCascades 2025 (Portland) | Feb 8-9th - Register on PyCascade
• AI Engineering - AI Book Club | Mar 25 - RSVP on LinkedIn

🎙️ AI Podcasts & Interviews:

• AI Engineering for Art — with comfyanonymous, of ComfyUI - Listen on Latent Space
• Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu on Transforming AI Agents Into Personal Collaborators - Listen on NVIDIA
• Mozart to Megadeath at CHRP | Practical AI podcast - Listen on changelog
• 2025 AI and Data Science Predictions, with Sadie St. Lawrence - Listen on SuperDataScience
• Why Agents Are Stupid & What We Can Do About It with Dan Jeffries - Listen on TWiML
• Evaluating LLMs with Chatbot Arena and Joseph E. Gonzalez - Listen on Weights & Biases

📝 Latest AI/ML Research Papers

• Don't Do RAG: When Cache-Augmented Generation is All You Need for Knowledge Tasks - Read on arXiv
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report - Read on arXiv
• TangoFlux: Super Fast and Faithful Text to Audio Generation with Flow Matching and Clap-Ranked Preference Optimization - Read on arXiv
• Reconstruction vs. Generation: Taming Optimization Dilemma in Latent Diffusion Models - Read on arXiv
• HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs - Read on arXiv
• VMix: Improving Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Cross-Attention Mixing Control - Read on arXiv
• Edicho: Consistent Image Editing in the Wild - 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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