🚀Microsoft Releases .NET 9

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 🤖 Snowflake’s data agents leverages enterprise apps.

• 🌐The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack

• 🔧Implementing LSM Trees in Golang

• 🏠 Apple’s new AI-powered home command center

• 🕶️ Baidu Unveils AI Smart Glasses and Enhanced Image Generator

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to Upload and Analyze PDFs with Claude AI

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

How Big data Can Revive a Struggling Business

Investing in big data analytics could be the best thing you’ve ever done for your business. Big data can turn a struggling business into one that works, but how do you go about doing it? Is there a big computer that does it for you?

🤖 Snowflake’s data agents leverages enterprise apps.

Set to launch in private preview soon, Snowflake Intelligence is a platform that will help enterprise users set up and deploy dedicated ‘data agents’ to extract relevant business insights from their data, hosted within their data cloud instance and beyond,

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Announcing .NET 9

.NET 9 includes thousands of performance, security, and functional improvements. This post looks at the highlights of the update across developer languages, workloads, and tools. There are enhancements across the entire .NET stack that enable developers to build with a unified platform and easily infuse apps with AI

The Rise of the Declarative Data Stack

Data stacks have come a long way, evolving from monolithic, one-fits-all systems like Oracle/SAP to today's modular open data stacks. This begs the question, what's next? Or why is the current not meeting our needs

Implementing LSM Trees in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide

Follow an implementation of an LSM tree in Golang, discuss features, and compare it with more traditional key-value storage systems and indexing strategies.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

ISpin (GitHub Repo)

Spin is a framework for building, deploying, and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly. It offers a simple command-line interface for creating, distributing, and executing applications.

Chronon (GitHub Repo)

Chronon is a platform that allows organizations to power AI/ML projects without needing to worry about orchestration by abstracting away the complexity of data computation and serving for AI/ML applications

AI News:

🧠 OpenAI's o1 Model Set for Full Release

OpenAI is preparing to launch the full version of its o1 model later this year, aligning with its earlier statements about releasing "great technology" in 2024. The o1 model can process approximately 200,000 tokens and handle image inputs. Currently, only mini and preview versions of o1 are available to users

How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant

Chegg, once a staple in online education, is now teetering on the edge. The rise of ChatGPT has all but dismantled its business model, casting doubt on Chegg’s ability to stay afloat. 

Key Points:

• Chegg's stock has plummeted 99%, losing billions in value.

• ChatGPT offers free, instant help, attracting students away from Chegg.

• Chegg’s efforts to develop competitive AI have been limited and delayed

🕶️ Baidu Unveils AI Smart Glasses and Enhanced Image Generator

Baidu's I-RAG, introduced by CEO Robin Li, focuses on reducing visual "hallucinations"—incorrect image elements generated by AI—by leveraging Baidu’s search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation capabilities. Meanwhile, Baidu’s Xiaodu division unveiled a wearable AI headset, featuring Ernie’s voice model for tasks like calorie tracking and capturing media, directly challenging Meta’s smart glasses.

🤖 AI robot masters surgical tasks

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University just achieved a breakthrough in surgical robotics, training a robot to perform complex medical procedures solely by having it watch videos of human surgeons at work.

🏠 Apple’s new AI-powered home command center

Apple is preparing to launch a new wall-mounted AI smart home display – positioning the device as a central hub for everything from video calls to appliance management, according to a new report from Apple insider Mark Gurman.

AI Tutorial

How to Upload and Analyze PDFs with Claude AI

Claude’s new Visual PDFs feature, currently in beta, lets you analyze PDFs, including text, images, graphs, and charts. Here’s how:

1. Log into your Claude account.

2. Select your initials in the lower-left corner and choose “Feature Preview.” Toggle on Visual PDF Analysis to enable it.

3. Start a new chat, tap the paperclip icon, upload your PDF, and wait for the file’s thumbnail to appear. Then type your question or request and submit it.

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