🚀Powering LLMs With Apache Camel and LangChain4j

🦾Plus: ☁️ Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloud

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

  • 🔍Kubernetes History Inspector

  • 💻A Software Engineer’s Journey into ML Deployment

  • ⏳Data Have a Limited Shelf Life

  • 💰 SoftBank to invest $25B in OpenAI

  • 🎯 Anthropic CEO: “DeepSeek isn’t a threat”

  • 📱 X ‘Everything App’ Will Launch This Year

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:5 Meta AI hacks to get the most out of WhatsApp

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024

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Learn how to use Apache Camel with LangChain4j to provide LLMs with the ability to call tools, enhancing your integration workflows. Camel provides robust integration, connecting your LLM to any service or API. This lets your AI interact with databases, queues, and more, creating truly powerful applications.

Kubernetes History Inspector is a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters that transforms vast quantities of logs into an interactive, comprehensive timeline view. It is an invaluable tool for troubleshooting complex issues that span multiple components within Kubernetes clusters.

As a software engineer, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways cloud technology has evolved over the past decade to solve complex infrastructure issues. Recently, while working on a personal project with an ML module, I was exploring options for deploying my ML model. The first problem I faced was understanding why do we even need ML-specific solutions in the first place.

Data, unlike some wines, do not improve with age. The contrary view, that data are immortal, a view that may underlie the often-observed tendency to recycle old examples in texts and presentations, is illustrated with three classical examples and rebutted by further examination. Some general lessons for data science are noted, as well as some history of statistical worries about the effect of data selection on induction and related themes in recent histories of science…

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Lab (GitHub Repo)

Lab allows developers to experiment with code instantly without the overhead of creating files and folders. Users can just type 'lab' with any extension (eg. lab py) and start coding. 

Bunster (GitHub Repo)

Bunster transforms shell scripts into efficient, standalone binaries while ensuring performance, portability, and robustness..

Mathesar (GitHub Repo)

Mathesar is a web app that enables users of all technical skill levels to view, edit, query, and collaborate on PostgreSQL databases using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface.

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X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that X will launch its Everything App this year. The app will allow for secure and instant funding to X Wallets via Visa Direct. Users will be able to connect their debit cards for P2P payments.

The U.S. Copyright Office just released a new report establishing firm guidelines on AI-generated works, ruling that AI outputs alone cannot receive copyright protection while preserving rights for human creators who use AI as a tool. The 52-page report determined that copyright protection requires meaningful human authorship and creativity, not just AI generation.

Microsoft announced that DeepSeek’s viral, powerful AI model, R1—which outpaced ChatGPT downloads and rocked US stock markets earlier this week (causing AI chip giant NVIDIA to drop $600B) because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of other leading AI models—is available on its Azure cloud platform and GitHub, allowing Microsoft customers to integrate it into their AI applications.

Multinational Japanese tech conglomerate, Softbank, is reportedly in “advanced talks” to invest up to $25B in OpenAI. According to the Times, this deal—which hasn't yet been finalized—could be part of a larger partnership, which would see Softbank investing over $40B to develop bigger AI initiatives with OpenAI.

Anthropic’s CEO—Dario Amodei—doesn’t see DeepSeek "themselves as adversaries," as “in interviews, they seem like smart, curious researchers who just want to make useful technology."

AI Tutorial

5 Meta AI hacks to get the most out of WhatsApp

  1. Get Real-Time Information

Meta has access to the web and can answer questions or provide updates on current events, weather, and more. I will also provide source links for the information shared.

  1. Ask About Photos, Generate, and Edit Images

Meta AI can generate images directly within your chat. You can also use Meta AI to edit a photo you upload, such as adding or removing objects or even animating the image. Additionally, you can ask Meta AI questions about an image you share in a chat—for example, showing a picture of a cake and asking for the recipe, or inquiring about the meaning of symbols or icons.

  1. Language Translation

Simply ask Meta AI to translate a phrase from your native language into your desired language. It will provide an accurate translation in seconds and suggest alternative phrasing for formal or casual tones.

  1. Get Recommendations

Instead of browsing the internet and forums, simply ask Meta AI for book suggestions, travel destinations, movies to watch, and more. By providing details about your preferences and what you're looking for, Meta AI will offer personalized recommendations for you to consider.

  1. Add Meta AI to Your Group Chats

Type @MetaAI to add the assistant to your group chats, helping you and your friends generate ideas, provide information for the discussion, and more.

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

  1. GPTTeams centralizes AI models like GPT-4, Claude 3, and Gemini to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.

  2. 2Moons AI transforms how you create and use images. Utilizing MidJourney and DALL·E

  3. Trainn is the ultimate solution for SaaS companies seeking to streamline their customer training workflows

  4. ContextClue - AI-driven solution crafted for modern document research, code migration, and proposal creation

  5. Hunchbank helps analyze your Stripe transactions by asking plain English questions instead of writing SQL.

  6. Maps Scraper AI is like a robot that scrapes Bing Maps, giving us real, verified leads.

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