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Techwave
Sam Altman announces "12 days of OpenAI"
Google announces Veo and Imagen 3: new video and image generation models
DeepMind Genie 2: generate interactive worlds that look like video games
Intel data scientist's survival guide to GenAI
Nvidia launches Ingest: Multimodal PDF Data Extraction
Awesome AI:
Polymet - Idea to prototype within seconds
Earkick - Your Personal AI Chatbot
Outerbase | The interface for your database
Masterclass:
Align Meta Llama 3 to human preferences with DPO
Enhancing LLMs with Structured Outputs and Function Calling
Safely repairing broken builds with ML
HackHub:
Agents for software development
Open-source LLM app development platform
build, manage & run useful autonomous agents
Understand Human Behavior to Align True Needs
Generative models for conditional audio generation
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Shreyans Singh
Editor-in-Chief, Packt
Sam Altman announces "12 days of OpenAI"
OpenAI is celebrating with a special event called "12 Days of OpenAI," where, for twelve days, the company will reveal new models, features, and updates via livestreams. Anticipated reveals include full release of its o1 reasoning model, updates on its voice modes, including a festive Santa voice, a new AI agent called Operator, a web browser, a desktop app update, and advancements in AI-generated music and vision fine-tuning. Notably, OpenAI may also introduce new AI chips and even GPT-5, which promises improved reasoning and customization.
Google announces Veo and Imagen 3: new video and image generation models
Google Cloud has introduced two advanced generative AI models, Veo and Imagen 3, on its Vertex AI platform. Veo allows businesses to generate high-quality videos from simple text or image prompts, transforming creative assets into dynamic visuals quickly and affordably. Imagen 3, launching next week, creates highly realistic images from text prompts, offering more detail and fewer visual artifacts than previous models. Both models are built with safety features, such as digital watermarking and safety filters, to ensure responsible use.
DeepMind Genie 2: generate interactive worlds that look like video games
DeepMind has introduced Genie 2, an advanced AI model capable of generating interactive 3D worlds that resemble video games. Unlike previous models, Genie 2 can create dynamic environments from just a single image and a text description, allowing users to interact with the scene, like jumping or swimming. The model simulates object interactions, physics, and animations, and can remember parts of the world even when they’re not visible, offering a more consistent and realistic experience. While not designed for full gaming experiences, Genie 2 is a tool for research, creative prototyping, and evaluating AI agents.
Intel data scientist's survival guide to GenAI
While GenAI tools can produce impressive results, they heavily rely on clean, well-structured data and insightful interpretation—areas where data scientists excel. Your expertise in data analysis, modeling, and statistical methods ensures that these models can make accurate, actionable predictions. GenAI platforms need data scientists to optimize and evaluate models, enhance their performance, and ensure their deployment is successful. Tools like Modin, Intel-optimized frameworks, and MLflow help streamline the process, making data preparation, model training, and deployment more efficient, particularly when working on Intel hardware.
Nvidia launches Ingest: Multimodal PDF Data Extraction
NVIDIA-Ingest is a powerful microservice for extracting and processing content from documents like PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint files. It can analyze and separate text, images, tables, and charts, delivering them in a structured JSON format. Using NVIDIA's advanced tools, including OCR and AI-driven parsing, it enables efficient data processing for downstream applications like generative AI or embedding storage in vector databases like Milvus. It supports flexible workflows and can handle tasks like splitting documents, generating embeddings, and transforming data
Polymet - Idea to prototype within seconds
Polymet is an AI-powered tool that helps users quickly turn ideas into prototypes by generating designs and production-ready code in seconds. Users can describe what they need, iterate on the design with their team, and then export the code and designs, which can easily integrate with tools like Figma and existing codebases.
Choppity is an AI-powered video editing tool that allows users to quickly find and clip moments from any video using visual, audio, and sentiment analysis. With its "ClipAnything" feature, users can search for specific parts of a video, such as key events, people, or emotions, without having to manually review hours of footage.
Fal.ai is a generative media platform designed for developers to create and deploy AI-powered applications, particularly focused on text-to-image models. It offers fast, cost-effective inference with models like FLUX.1 and Stable Diffusion, optimized for various creative tasks.
Earkick - Your Personal AI Chatbot
Earkick is an AI-powered mental health app that helps users track and improve their emotional well-being in real time through a personal chatbot named Panda. Earkick tracks mental readiness, mood, and calmness, while providing daily insights, breathing techniques, and guided self-care sessions.
Outerbase | The interface for your database
Outerbase is an AI-powered platform that simplifies working with databases for engineers, researchers, and analysts. It supports SQL and NoSQL databases, allowing users to manage data securely while using AI tools to write queries, fix mistakes, and generate charts and visualizations instantly. Outerbase's table editor, dashboards, and data catalog help users organize, analyze, and share insights efficiently.
Apple's voice trigger system for Siri includes a first-stage low-power detector to identify potential triggers, and a second-stage, high-precision model to confirm the trigger. It also incorporates speaker identification to ensure the device responds only to its primary user. This sophisticated setup addresses challenges like background noise and phonetically similar words while maintaining power efficiency and privacy.
Align Meta Llama 3 to human preferences with DPO
DPO involves fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) based on feedback from human annotators who rate or rank the model's responses according to desired values, such as helpfulness and honesty. SageMaker Studio provides the computational environment to fine-tune the model using Jupyter notebooks with powerful GPU instances, while SageMaker Ground Truth simplifies the process of gathering human feedback by managing workflows for data annotation. Together, they allow you to align the Llama 3 model’s responses with specific organizational values efficiently.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a type of machine learning where an agent learns by interacting with its environment, making decisions, and receiving feedback in the form of rewards or penalties. The goal is to maximize cumulative rewards over time. The agent starts with little to no knowledge and improves through trial and error, learning from past experiences. In RL, actions taken by the agent change the state of the environment, and based on the rewards received, the agent adjusts its future actions. A key concept in RL is balancing exploration (trying new things) and exploitation (using known strategies for rewards).
Enhancing LLMs with Structured Outputs and Function Calling
Enhancing LLMs with structured outputs and function calling improves their ability to provide accurate and useful responses. Structured outputs ensure consistency and clarity by organizing information in a logical format, reducing ambiguity. Function calling allows LLMs to perform specific tasks, such as retrieving real-time data or executing external functions, making them more interactive and versatile. Combined with techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), which integrates relevant external information into the model’s responses, these enhancements lead to more reliable, accurate, and contextually rich conversations with LLMs.
Safely repairing broken builds with ML
Google's engineers have developed a machine learning model called DIDACT to automatically repair broken code builds by analyzing historical data of build errors and their fixes. This model suggests potential fixes to developers directly within their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). In a controlled experiment, the use of these machine learning-suggested fixes improved productivity by reducing active coding and feedback time, and increasing the number of completed code changes.
OpenHands is an AI-powered platform designed to assist with software development, allowing agents to perform tasks similar to human developers. These agents can modify code, run commands, browse the web, call APIs, and even use resources like StackOverflow. OpenHands is easy to set up using Docker and can be run in various modes, including scriptable or interactive CLI.
Dify is an open-source platform for developing AI applications, offering an intuitive interface that integrates workflows, agent capabilities, model management, and observability features. Dify's core features include a visual AI workflow builder, integration with numerous LLMs, agent tools, and a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline for document handling.
SuperAGI is an open-source framework designed for developers to create, manage, and run autonomous AI agents. It allows seamless operation of multiple agents simultaneously and provides tools to extend their capabilities. With features like graphical interfaces, performance telemetry, and integration with multiple vector databases, SuperAGI enables AI agents to efficiently handle tasks, learn from experience, and optimize token usage.
Paints-Undo is an open-source project that provides AI models designed to simulate the drawing process in digital art. By inputting a completed image, users can generate a sequence of steps showing how that image might have been created, mimicking the "undo" function in digital painting software.
Stability-AI/stable-audio-tools
Stable-Audio-Tools is an open-source library for working with audio generation models. It provides tools for training and running models that generate audio, including a Gradio interface for testing. Users can install the library via PyPI, and the repository includes scripts for both training models and performing inference.
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