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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔥Top 20 Open-Source LLMs to Use in 2025
⚡ ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes
🛠️Using Ordering for Better Plans in Apache DataFusion
🧠 Tencent’s Hunyuan T1 reasoning model
🔍 Perplexity’s bold bid to take over TikTok
🗣️ Kai-Fu Lee: “Sam Altman is probably not sleeping well”
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create a custom voice from a text prompt
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
There will still be plenty of jobs in the software industry in the future - just not the kind that involves writing code by hand. The world is changing, so junior developers are adapting. Junior developers have been far more eager to adopt AI than senior developers. Developers who don't adopt the new technology have lost.
As AI continues to evolve, open-source large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly powerful, democratizing access to state-of-the-art AI capabilities. In 2025, several key models stand out in the open-source ecosystem, offering unique strengths for various applications.
Data is often stored in a database management system (DBMS) but dataframe libraries are widely used among data scientists. An important but challenging problem is how to bridge the gap between databases and dataframes. To solve this problem, we present ConnectorX, a client library that enables fast and memory-e"cient data loading from various databases to different dataframes
In this blog post, we explain when an ordering requirement of an operator is satisfied by its input data. This analysis is essential for order-based optimizations and is often more complex than one might initially think.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
ttyd (GitHub Repo)
ttyd is a command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web. It provides a fully-featured terminal with CJK and IME support, ZMODEM/trzsz file transfer support, Sixel image output support, and more.
Fetcher MCP (GitHub Repo)
Fetcher MCP is a model context protocol that fetches web page content using Playwright.
AI News:
Tesla aims to start producing Optimus this year. The company plans to produce enough parts to make 10,000 to 12,000 Optimus robots this year and 50,000 units next year. The product is totally new, so Tesla's measure of success is to produce at least 5,000 robots.
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Tencent just released Hunyuan T1, a new reasoning model that matches DeepSeek's R1 in performance and pricing—while tapping the industry's first hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture for improved efficiency. T1 matches or surpasses rivals like DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI’s o1 and GPT 4.5 across benchmarks, excelling especially in math and Chinese language evals.
AI search startup Perplexity just published its proposal to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, promising to rebuild the platform's algorithm with transparency and American oversight while integrating its own search tech.
The biggest revelation from Deepseek is that Open Source has won. For a 1% difference in performance, it will be difficult for OpenAI to justify its price when the competition is free and formidable. -from my interview with Bloomberg
— Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee)
2:49 AM • Mar 22, 2025
Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, decided to change his AI startup, 01.AI, to rely fully on Deepseek's open-source models. He believes these free models pose a major threat to OpenAI, which charges for similar services.
Apple plans to turn the Apple Watch into an AI-infused wearable. It is working on a version of the smartwatch equipped with cameras, which will allow the device to do things like identify objects or translate text in a picture.
AI Tutorial
How to create a custom voice from a text prompt
ElevenLabs’ Voice Design allows you to generate a unique voice from a text prompt alone and for free, perfect for when the exact voice you're looking for isn’t available in the Voice Library.
Go to Eleven Labs, click on 'Design Voice Free,' and then click on 'Voices' in the left sidebar.
Click on 'My Voices' and select 'Add a new voice,' then choose 'Voice Design.'
Provide a detailed description of the voice, including age, accent, gender, and style.
Preview three AI-generated versions, choose your favorite, and assign it a name for immediate use.
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