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Run DeepSeek-R1 Locally to build RAG Apps 🤖
🦾Plus: 🔊 Amazon Alexa+, 🤖 Microsoft Phi-4 Models
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🎨Multimodal RAG using Qwen 2.5 VL-Max
💻Top 10 AI APIs for Developers
⚙️ Harness APIs & AI for Intelligent Automation
📊 Applications of Data Science in Business
🔊 Amazon’s gen AI-powered Alexa+
🗣️ ElevenLabs’s new speech-to-text AI
🤖 Phi-4 Models - Microsoft Phi-4-mini & Phi-4-multimodal
💡 AI Tutorial: Create AI-powered video ads easily
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the gateways that allow developers to integrate AI capabilities into their applications with ease. Here, we explore the top 10 AI APIs that developers should consider for their next project.
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In this studio we are building a 100% local multimodal RAG app that can process complex real world documents containing not only text but images, figures and even complex flow charts. It is powered by a locally running Qwen2.5-VL Max as LLM and ColPali for parsing complex documents.
Developed by a Chinese AI company DeepSeek, this model is being compared to OpenAI's top models. The excitement around DeepSeek-R1 is not just because of its capabilities but also because it is open-sourced, allowing anyone to download and run it locally. In this blog, I'll guide you through setting up DeepSeek-R1 on your machine using Ollama.
APIs have steadily become the backbone of AI systems, connecting data and tools seamlessly. Discover how they can drive scalable and secure training for AI models and intelligence automation.
As the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models continues to progress and evolve, it is becoming essential to manage them through dedicated technical platforms and model hubs such as Verta, a platform that notably offers the ModelOps option.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Semaphore (GitHub Repo)
Semaphore is a CI/CD platform that can be self-hosted or run on a cloud provider. It futures blazing-fast CI/CD and supports YAML-based configuration, parallel execution, and more.
Chicory (GitHub Repo)
Chicory allows developers to run WebAssembly (Wasm) programs with zero native dependencies or JNI. It can run Wasm anywhere the JVM can go
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Microsoft has introduced Phi-4-multimodal (5.6B parameters) and Phi-4-mini (3.8B parameters). Both models are designed for efficiency and on-device execution, making AI more accessible. Phi-4 models deliver multimodal AI in a small, efficient package, handling speech, vision, and text together—unlike larger models that need separate pipelines.
Amazon just unveiled Alexa+, its highly-anticipated next-generation digital assistant completely rebuilt with AI — promising more conversational interactions, personalization, and agentic capabilities for everyday tasks. Alexa+ can connect and leverage multiple LLMs, including Amazon's Nova and Anthropic's Claude, choosing the best model for each task at hand.
ElevenLabs released Scribe, a new speech-to-text model that claims to be the most accurate in the world, outperforming industry leaders like Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash and OpenAI's Whisper v3 across dozens of languages.
Inception Labs just emerged from stealth with Mercury, a new ‘diffusion’ LLM that generates text up to 10x faster than traditional LLMs while still matching their quality — with speeds over 1000 tokens/sec on standard H100 chips.
Poe launched Poe Apps, enabling users to create apps and visual UI interfaces using a combination of reasoning, multimodal, image, video, and audio models on the platform.
AI Tutorial
Create AI-powered video ads easily
Sign up or log in to Creatify AI.
Paste your product URL and click "Analyze url"
After a short wait, choose between an AI-generated script or writing your own.
Set up the video format based on your platform and define your target audience.
Provide a product description and upload any relevant assets.
Pick an avatar from the available options and click Next
Wait a bit, and you’ll get multiple AI-generated videos. Select your preferred option, and download the file for sharing.
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
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Clarity AI is a state-of-the-art AI Image Upscaler & Enhancer that supports upscaling from 64px to 37 megapixels
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