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🦾Plus: 🟢 NVIDIA introduces 'James' a digital human
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In today's edition:
🎬Netflix Open Sources Maestro, a Next-Gen Data Workflow Engine
📚The Utility of Vector Databases in LLMs
💻How To Build Scalable Real-Time Applications With JavaScript
🚀Meet Prompt Poet: revolutionizing LLM prompt engineering
🍓 Sam Altman teases OpenAI’s ‘Project Strawberry’
🌐LG debuts South Korea’s first open-source AI model.
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Fine-Tune GPT-4o Mini
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
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Maestro provides a Workflow as a Service to Netflix's data scientists and information-hungry line-of-business managers. The Maestro workflow orchestrator, released under an Apache 2.0 license, was designed to support hundreds of thousands of workflows and has completed up to 2 million jobs in a single day for the media company.
Vector databases are not new. They have existed for a long time and have been at the core of recommender systems and search engines, which we use almost daily. But have a look at these Google search trends for the topic “Vector database” over the last five years:
This article will consider the challenges and solutions of building scalable real-time applications with JavaScript in 2024, focusing on WebSocket implementation, server-sent events (SSE), and libraries like Socket.IO to manage real-time communication effectively.
Understanding the social and historical context of data is essential for all responsible data work…We host datasets that are paired with rich documentation, data essays, and teaching resources, all of which draw on context and humanities perspectives and methods…
Already many or even most developers are already using AI in their everyday development cycles. These include code-completion tools such as Github CoPilot or Cursor, frameworks designed to solve end-to-end varieties of software development tasks such as DiffBlue for unit test generation or TransCoder for code porting, as well as general-purpose software development agents such as Devin or OpenDevin.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Bun 1.1 (37 minute read)
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Its 1.1 update contains thousands of bug fixes, tons of new features and APIs, and Windows support.
Lightning Whisper MLX (GitHub Repo)
Lightning Whisper MLX is an incredibly fast implementation of Whisper optimized for Apple Silicon. It features batched decoding for higher throughput, distilled models for faster decoding, and quantized models for faster memory movement
AI News:
NVIDIA recently introduced “James,” an interactive digital human that can connect with people using emotions, humor, and more.
James is based on a customer-service workflow using NVIDIA ACE, a reference design for creating custom, hyperrealistic, interactive avatars.
Prompt Poet, acquired by Google from Character.ai, is redefining prompt engineering for large language models (LLMs). This tool simplifies the creation of sophisticated prompts through a low-code interface, making it accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
Sam Altman shared an intriguing image of strawberries on X, sparking speculations about potential upcoming features or improvements for ChatGPT. There’s an ongoing rumor that they’re developing a foundation model called ‘Strawberry’ or 'Q*,' which could be the GPT-5 variant everyone’s been waiting for. Some speculate that a recent photo might be hinting at this.
LG AI Research has launched Exaone 3.0, South Korea’s first open-source artificial intelligence model, marking the country’s entry into the competitive global AI landscape dominated by U.S. tech giants and emerging players from China and the Middle East.
Google DeepMind has unveiled the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable of competing at an amateur human level. The robot uses an ABB IRB 1100 industrial arm paired with custom AI software from DeepMind.
AI Tutorial
How to Fine-Tune GPT-4o Mini
OpenAI now allows users to finetune GPT-4o Mini, a capability not offered for the full GPT-4o model. If you're eager to customize this AI to suit your specific needs, here's a step-by-step process:
Access the OpenAI Playground by signing into your ChatGPT account.
Navigate to the "Chat" option in the left sidebar.
From the available Models, select "gpt-4o-mini" in the dropdown list.
Craft your desired prompt in the user message area. Fine-tune various parameters such as the system instructions, temperature settings, and response format to shape the model's responses according to your preferences.
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