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🦾Plus: 🖼️ Ideogram’s 3.0 image model,🤖OpenAI's gets Anthropic's MCP
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖OpenAI's Adoption of Anthropic's MCP
đź“šImpact of AI on Academic Writing and Research
🛢️MySQL At Uber
đź“ŠOver 700 million events/second: Netflix case study
đźš— BMW, Alibaba bringing AI-enabled cars
🖼️ Ideogram’s advanced 3.0 image model
🤖 Figure 02 robots just learned to walk like humans
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Bring old photos to life with color
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
The recent announcement by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding the integration of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) marks a transformative development in the artificial intelligence landscape. As industries increasingly rely on AI systems, adopting a standard like MCP can significantly reduce development time and costs
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The transformative potential of AI is not limited to any one area; academic writing is no different. It is possible to imagine a future when smart algorithms execute literature reviews quickly and accurately. Academics and researchers may notice this soon. AI is transforming academic writing by making literature reviews easier.
Figure: Anatomy of the MySQL control plane.
At Uber, our MySQL® fleet is the backbone of our data infrastructure, supporting a vast array of operations critical to our platform. Uber operates an extensive MySQL fleet, consisting of over 2,300 independent clusters. Building a control plane to manage this fleet at such a massive scale, while ensuring zero downtime and no data loss, is among the most challenging problems in the industry.
While advancements in AI have been impressive, these tools are still far away from writing code autonomously for non-trivial tasks - this post looks at the types of skills that developers will still have to apply for the foreseeable future.
As of December 2024, Cloudflare’s data pipeline is ingesting up to 706M events per second generated by various services, and that represents 100x growth since their 2018 data pipeline blog post… All of these data streams power things like Logs, Analytics, and billing, as well as other products, such as training machine learning models for bot detection. This blog post is focused on techniques Cloudflare uses to efficiently and accurately deal with the high volume of data they ingest for their Analytics products.
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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Playwright MCP (GitHub Repo)
Playwright MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables large language models to interact with web pages using Playwright, bypassing the need for screenshots or visually-tuned models.
AI News:
Chinese tech giant Alibaba and automaker BMW announced a strategic alliance to develop advanced in-car AI tailored for the Chinese market, bringing cutting-edge vehicle cockpit tech to BMW models as soon as 2026.
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Image generation startup Ideogram just released version 3.0 of its AI model, introducing major improvements in photorealism, text rendering, and style consistency — while outperforming competitors in human evaluations. Ideogram 3.0 brings new text rendering and graphic design capabilities, enabling precise creation of complex layouts, logos, and typography.
Alibaba released Qwen2.5-Omni-7B, a new multimodal AI capable of processing text, images, audio, and video simultaneously while being efficient enough to run directly on consumer hardware like smartphones and laptops. The model uses a new "Thinker-Talker" system for real-time processing across modalities (text, audio, image, video) with text and speech outputs.
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Figure 02 robots just learned to walk like humans - thanks to an AI brain trained fully in simulation. No manual tuning needed when switching to the real world.
AI Tutorial
🎨 Bring old photos to life with color
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the new native image generation feature in Gemini 2.0 Flash to instantly colorize black and white photos and make creative edits with simple text prompts.
Step-by-step:
Visit Google AI Studio and select "Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental" from the “Models” dropdown.
Upload your black-and-white image by clicking the message field’s "+" button.
Type "Colorize this image" and hit Run to transform your photo.
Make creative edits with additional prompts like "Add snow on the trees" or "Change the lighting to golden hour" and download your brand new image!
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