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🤖 Dapr Agents: Scalable AI Workflows with LLMs
🦾Plus: 🖥️Nvidia's personal AI supercomputer
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔒 Three-layered defense strategy to secure data and minimize downtime
🔗Connects Any AI Agent to Any Data Source and Tool
💻Codeium has released a new feature Windsurf IDE
📊10 Benefits of Starting Your Career as Data Analyst
🖥️Nvidia's personal AI supercomputer
🧠Inait develops 'digital brains' with Microsoft
📈 Study: AI capabilities following ‘Moore's Law’
💡 AI Tutorial:How to add objects to any image with Gemini 2.0 Flash
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Dapr recently introduced Dapr Agents, a framework for building scalable, resilient AI agents using Large Language Models (LLMs). It enables structured workflows, multi-agent coordination, and event-driven execution, leveraging Dapr's security, observability, and cloud-neutral architecture. Designed for enterprise use, it supports thousands of agents, integrates with databases, and ensures reliability through robust orchestration and messaging.
Is a career in data analysis a good choice? Yes. Data analysis is a good career choice. Every day the amount of data that is created, copied, captured, and consumed keeps increasing rapidly. That is why the need for people to process data will also keep increasing.
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NVIDIA has released AgentIQ, an open-source library that lets you connect AI agents to any data source or tool without being locked into a specific framework. It essentially acts as a universal adapter for your agents. This open-source toolkit converts every agent, tool, and workflow into simple function calls that work together seamlessly, allowing you to build components once and reuse them across projects.
"Windsurf Tab," a major improvement to its AI code prediction. Windsurf Tab now understands the entire development context – your terminal commands, clipboard contents, and even your conversations with the AI assistant – to provide far more accurate code suggestions as you type. It is free and unlimited for all, with a faster version for paid subscribers.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
tiny-gpu
A minimal GPU design in Verilog to learn how GPUs work from the ground up.
CopilotKit
A framework for building custom AI Copilots in-app AI chatbots, in-app AI Agents, & AI-powered Textareas.
NAND
NAND is a logic simulator suite made entirely from NAND gates.
AI News:
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At GTC, NVIDIA introduced DGX Spark and DGX Station, personal AI supercomputers powered by the Grace Blackwell platform, bringing data-center-level AI performance to desktops. DGX Spark, the world's smallest AI supercomputer, features the GB10 Superchip, delivering 1,000 TOPS of AI compute with fifth-gen Tensor Cores and FP4 support.
OpenAI’s Project Stargate might have finally met its match. Nvidia and xAI announced they’re joining Microsoft, BlackRock, and investment firm MGX’s initiative to put as much as $100B into new AI infrastructure projects in the US. Microsoft could use the new data centers to power its rumored in-house model, MAI-1, which would likely put even more strain on its already-fraying relationship with OpenAI.
Microsoft and Swiss startup Inait announced a partnership to develop AI models inspired by mammalian brains. The technology aims to serve the finance industry and robotics applications. According to the announcement, Microsoft plans to use Inait's technology to expand its AI offerings for business customers.
Researchers at METR just published new data showing that the length of tasks AI agents can complete autonomously has been doubling approximately every 7 months since 2019, revealing a "Moore's Law" for AI capabilities.
More than 400 Hollywood creatives signed an open letter urging the Trump administration to reject OpenAI and Google’s proposals to expand AI training on copyrighted works—arguing that it would let them "freely exploit" creative industries. The letter is a direct response to OpenAI and Google's AI Action Plan submissions, which argued for expanded fair use protections for AI training.
AI Tutorial
How to add objects to any image with Gemini 2.0 Flash
Go to AI Studio’s website and sign up.
Select ‘Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental’ as your model.
Upload your image and just prompt to specify the object, position, and style.
Sample Prompt: “Add a [enter an object] in [enter position] in a [enter style].”
Alternatively, you can also upload the object’s image and prompt to add it to the existing image.
Click ‘Generate’ and wait for the AI to process the edit.
If needed, refine your request (e.g., adjust placement or details).
Once satisfied, download the enhanced image, and share or integrate it into your projects.
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