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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
đź“Š 40 Best Data Visualization Tools
🛠️Towards composable data platforms
đź’¬How to Build an LLM Chat App
🔍Building AI Search APIs with Hono.js
🎥 The world’s smallest video language model
🥊 Grok 3 rebels against Musk, gets censored
🚀 OpenAI’s power shift
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:How to dub a video with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Data visualizations are everywhere today. From creating a visual representation of data points to impress potential investors, report on progress, or even visualize concepts for customer segments, data visualizations are a valuable tool in a variety of settings.
I’ve written extensively about the open table formats (OTFs - Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi). In my original Tableflow post, I wrote that shared tables were one of the major trends, enabled by the OTFs…But we can also view OTFs as enabling a kind of virtualization.
DS teams are starting to lose the essence that made them truly groundbreaking. their mixed scientific and business core. What we’re seeing now is a shift from deep statistical analysis and business oriented modeling to quick and dirty engineering solutions. Sure, this approach might give us a few immediate wins but it leads to low ROI projects and pulls the field further away from its true potential.
This article discusses how to start building a scalable LLM chat app. Learning how to build the backend architecture allows developers to build better apps that can handle more users and dodge the shame of a launch-day crash.
In this tutorial, we'll build a versatile search API using Hono.js that implements three powerful search paradigms: Vector, Hybrid, and Generative search. You'll learn how these different search types work.
👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LLRT (GitHub Repo)
Low Latency Runtime (LLRT) is a JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
LocalSend
An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
CSS Zero (GitHub Repo)
CSS Zero is an opinionated CSS starter kit for Ruby on Rails applications. It is akin to a 'no build' Tailwind CSS. CSS Zero includes custom templates for scaffolds and authentication.
AI News:
Norwegian robotics company 1X just launched NEO Gamma, a next-generation humanoid specifically designed for home environments — with a softer, more approachable appearance and advanced AI capabilities for household tasks.
Hugging Face researchers just released SmolVLM2, the world’s smallest AI model family to understand and analyze videos on everyday devices like phones and laptops, without requiring powerful servers or cloud connections.
xAI’s new Grok 3 model faced backlash after users discovered it was refusing to mention negative details about President Donald Trump and Elon Musk — despite Musk billing the AI as unfiltered and “maximally truth-seeking.”
Google DeepMind has revealed how much it costs to generate videos using its Veo 2 model. Through Google's Vertex cloud, Veo 2 runs at $0.50 per second — $1,800 per hour. OpenAI's Sora, a competing model, offers a fixed $200 monthly fee without usage limits.
OpenAI’s forecast for investors has revealed that, over the next five years, it’s planning to increase its ties with Japanese tech giant Softbank—for computing power and funding—and reduce its reliance on Microsoft.
AI Tutorial
How to dub a video with AI
With AI, you can automatically dub your videos into multiple languages in a few clicks.
Here's how:
Go to the ElevenLabs website and log in or create an account.
Click on "Go to App" in the top right corner, and then select "Dubbing"
Click on "Create a Dub" and provide the required details, such as the video name, source language, target language, number of speakers, etc. Then upload the video or provide the link to it.
Select "Create" and wait a few minutes. Once your video is generated, you can download it.
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