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💻Software Development Trends to Follow in 2025
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Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
✨17 Mindblowing Github Repositories
🛠️RonDB: A Real-Time Database for AI Systems
⏳Can a programming language implement time travel?
📊Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024
💰 Anthropic’s $60B Valuation
🧠 AI clones you in 2 hours
💡 AI Tutorial:Analyze images with Grok
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
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Learning to code is relatively easy, but mastering the art of writing better code is much tougher. GitHub serves as a treasure trove for developers, where the "gold" is the well-crafted code shared by others.
In this blog, I will discuss key software development trends for 2025, from AI-powered tools to ethical AI, low-code platforms, and cloud-native advancements.
This article provides an overview of agents and the aspects that determine the capabilities of an agent and discusses how to evaluate agents to catch failures. AI-powered agents are still an emerging field with no established theoretical frameworks for defining, developing, and evaluating them.
we released an open-source benchmark from our peer-reviewed paper at SIGMOD Industrial 2024 that compared the performance of real-time databases that power the Hopsworks (RonDB), Sagemaker (DynamoDB), and GCP (BigTable). This is not a typical vendor benchmark, but realistic benchmarks that passed peer review by our peers in industry and research.
Now there’s a toy programming language called Mariposa that claims to implement time travel as part of its feature set. Toy languages are created as a way to play around with a novel or odd feature, like variable assignment outside of the normal order of execution—more colloquially, time travel.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Vanilla Prime (GitHub Repo)
Vanilla Prime is a spiritual successor to VANILLA TODO with no frameworks, no bundlers, and no required dependencies. It aims to provide a simpler, more sustainable way of web development
Viking 🗺️ (GitHub Repo)
Viking provides developers with a simple way to manage their remote machines and SSH keys. It makes it easier to work with bare metal servers, allowing them full control to make the most of the server's resources.
DSPy is an open source framework that helps developers compose multiple large language model (LLM) calls together in a principled manner to solve a problem. LLMs are good at pattern matching, matching distributions, and being creative.
AI News:
Nvidia just unveiled a sweeping vision for AI agents alongside major hardware, software, and robotics reveals at CES 2025, with CEO Jensen Huang declaring AI agents a ‘multi-trillion-dollar’ opportunity.
The details:
Huang introduced the new RTX Blackwell GPU family, with the $2,000 5090 chip hailed as the ‘world’s fastest GPU’ outperforming its predecessor by 2x.
Nvidia revealed ‘Project Digits’, a $3,000 personal computer powered by the GB10 Superchip that is 1000x more powerful than the average laptop.
Cosmos, an open platform of world foundation models for physical AI, is freely available for robotics and autonomous vehicle development.
Nvidia introduced Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron model families, designed specifically for agentic AI applications.
A new early access blueprint for AI agents enables video and image analysis while integrating agentic features like reasoning, tool calling, and more.
A significant partnership with Toyota was also revealed, with plans to integrate NVIDIA's AI systems into autonomous vehicle development.
Startup Anthropic secures $2 billion in funding, reaching a $60 billion valuation. Anthropic’s latest funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, pushes its valuation to $60 billion. Backed by Amazon, Alphabet, and others, the AI startup is a significant rival to OpenAI.
Google DeepMind is assembling a team to push the boundaries of AI, aiming to simulate the physical world through generative models. Tim Brooks, previously with OpenAI, will head this initiative. The team’s efforts will build on Google’s existing AI projects like Gemini for multimodal tasks, Veo for video generation, and Genie for creating interactive 3D environments.
Nvidia introduces DIGITS, a compact AI supercomputer for personal use. NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS, priced at $3,000, features the powerful GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. Compact enough for a desk, it supports AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Systems can link to handle up to 405 billion parameters for advanced AI applications.
Google and Stanford built AI replicas of 1,052 people with 85% accuracy using two-hour interviews. These AI agents could predict reactions, test policies, and model human behavior.
AI Tutorial
Analyze images with Grok
Source: @luismbat on X
Grok recently gained image analysis capabilities, allowing users to upload images such as medical tests, video game screenshots, or even food photos.
Go to X and select "Grok" from the panel on the left.
Click the paperclip button to attach an image for upload. (On mobile, tap the "+" button.) Alternatively, paste the image into the search bar and add your prompt.
Grok is impressively good at analyzing images, even beating ChatGPT in some areas. Here are some notable examples:
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