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📊 DeepSeek’s smallpond takes on Big Data
🦾Plus: 📈 ChatGPT has 20 million paying subscribers
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊 The Importance of Big Data Analytics in Business
🔍MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters
🏡Building a User Signals Platform at Airbnb
🤔The case against conversational interfaces ️
🔥 Tinder’s new AI-powered flirting experience
📈 ChatGPT has 20 million paying subscribers.
🌟How Meta's Upcoming $1,000+ Smart Glasses
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create customizable AI podcasts in minutes
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
DeepSeek is pushing DuckDB beyond its single-node roots with smallpond, a new, simple approach to distributed compute. But does it solve the scalability challenge—or introduce new trade-offs? DeepSeek has made a lot of noise lately. Their R1 model, released in January 2025, outperformed competitors like OpenAI’s O1 at launch. But what truly set it apart was its highly efficient infrastructure—dramatically reducing costs while maintaining top-tier performance.
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Innovations in technology have completely changed the rules. More sophisticated software systems have significantly reduced analytics time. As a result, organizations are able to make speedy decisions to increase revenue.
Imagine you have a single universal plug that fits all your devices – that's essentially what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is for AI. MCP is an open standard (think “USB-C for AI integrations”) that allows AI models to connect to many different apps and data sources in a consistent way
Understanding user actions is critical for delivering a more personalized product experience. This blog post explores how Airbnb developed a large-scale, near real-time stream processing platform for capturing and understanding user actions, which enables multiple teams to easily leverage real-time user activities. Additionally, it discusses the challenges encountered and valuable insights gained from operating a large-scale stream processing platform.
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Natural language is a slow method of data transfer and it isn't the best method to interact with computers. It takes much longer to say 'What's the weather like today?' than to simply tap on the weather app icon on a device. While the quality of large language model output is improving at an astonishing rate, the input modality is a step backwards from what we already have.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Graft (GitHub Repo)
Graft is a transactional page storage engine optimized for scale and cost over latency that supports lazy partial replication to the edge.
SSLyze (GitHub Repo)
SSLyze is an SSL/TLS scanning tool and Python library that can analyze SSL/TLS configurations to ensure strong encryption settings and check servers against known TLS vulnerabilities.
AI News:
Most hearing aids have one processor. These bad boys have two. They process speech and noise separately. What does this mean? It means speech gets clearer and crisper – more than ever before. Conversations and listening become effortless. Oh, and they’re so tiny, they’re practically invisible. No wonder over 425,000 customers love them.
Dating giant Tinder just released “The Game Game,” an OpenAI-powered speech-to-speech experience that helps users practice and test their flirting skills with virtual personas. The game uses OpenAI's Realtime API, GPT-4o, and GPT-4o mini to create realistic personas and scenarios, with users speaking responses to earn points.
Meta’s new MoCha experiment comes in. It’s allegedly the first to generate “talking characters” — subjects that can move and talk realistically, complete with life-like facial expressions and hand movements.
Meta is working on a deluxe version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses. It plans to include hand-gesture controls and a screen for displaying photos and apps. The first glasses with a screen will be introduced as early as the end of this year at a price of over $1,000 - it may cost as much as $1,400.
Alibaba is set to release Qwen 3, an upgraded AI model, possibly in April 2025. This follows the success of Qwen 2.5-Max, launched to compete with DeepSeek-V3 amid fierce competition.
OpenAI's ChatGPT has reportedly hit a new milestone with 20M paid subscribers, driving the company's revenue to an estimated $5B annual run rate — coming on the heels of a $40B round and the virality of GPT 4o’s image generation.
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AI Tutorial
How to create customizable AI podcasts in minutes
Sign up on the Jellypod website to start with 1,000 free credits.
Select “Create New Podcast” and provide details such as the title, description, and type.
Click “Create New Host” to design your podcast hosts. Give them names, backstories, and personalities that shape their interactions.
Choose their voices. You can create a custom voice based on their backstories, select from 30+ professional voices, or clone your own voice for an AI version of yourself.
Select your generated hosts. Unlike similar tools like NotebookLM, this one allows you to add more than two hosts.
Once that’s done, click “Create Podcast” to proceed.
Generate an episode by pasting URLs, YouTube links, or uploading files as sources.
Edit the transcript created for the episode to refine what your hosts will say.
Generate the audio when you're happy with the transcript.
Each minute of audio uses 60 credits.
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