Retaining Knowledge in AI : Solving Catastrophic Forgetting in LLMs
Author(s): Sanket Rajaram Originally published on Towards AI. Part 1: The Learning Journey of a Kid in the School Imagine a kid in school learning about basic arithmetic in one semester. By the next year, they move on to geometry and algebra, …
AgentFly: Fine-Tuning AI Agents Without Fine-Tuning LLMs
Author(s): MKWriteshere Originally published on Towards AI. How memory-based learning achieves 87% accuracy on GAIA benchmarks without costly parameter updates Every attempt to make AI agents smarter hits the same wall: computationally intensive gradient updates that cost millions and risk erasing everything …
The Generative AI Model Map
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Jackson Simmer on Unsplash Introduction With the commercialization of the GPT model in 2022, generative AI (artificial intelligence) became popular. However large language models — the category of generative models GPT belongs …
5 AI Myths You Still Believe — Debunked!
Author(s): Poojan Vig Originally published on Towards AI. 🚀 AI is Everywhere — But Are We Getting It All Wrong? Artificial intelligence is now writing poems, crafting stunning art, and even attempting stand-up comedy: “Why did the AI become a musician? Because …
How ‘It’ Learned to Mean ‘Cat’ — A Journey Through Attention in Transformers
Author(s): Ashwin Biju Alikkal Originally published on Towards AI. When I first started learning how machines understand language, I was honestly a bit amused. How could something as deep and emotional as human language be reduced to just counting words or giving …
Kernels: A Deep Dive
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash Introduction: What are Kernels A kernel is a smart way to measure similarity between two things — in particular, data points, images, text documents, or more …
TAI #153: AlphaEvolve & Codex — AI Breakthroughs in Algorithm Discovery & Software Engineering
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEvolve, a genuinely innovative agent capable of discovering and evolving new algorithms, representing a leap in AI’s potential to …
🎙️ Building a Local Speech-to-Text System with Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v2
Author(s): Sridhar Sampath Originally published on Towards AI. 🎙️ Building a Local Speech-to-Text System with Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v2 Ever spent hours cleaning up a transcript? Inserting commas, capitalizing words, adjusting timestamps, and fixing numbers spoken as “twenty-two thousand three hundred ten” rather …
LAI #76: Qwen Fine-Tuning, Real-Time RL, Agent-to-Agent Systems, and Verifiable RAG
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue is all about bridging research and practice. We’re starting with a guide to fine-tuning Qwen-3 using Unsloth, built for anyone customizing models with speed and …
What 100+ Case Studies Taught Us About LLM Development
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! When we launched Beginner to Advanced LLM Developer seven months ago, we built it for a simple reason: most devs didn’t have a reliable path to go from …
Want to Build with AI But Don’t Know Where to Start? Try Hugging Face
Author(s): Prisca Ekhaeyemhe Originally published on Towards AI. Image edited by author — using DALE If you’ve been curious about artificial intelligence but feel overwhelmed by the jargon, complex math, or massive models, then you’re not alone, and you’re not too late. …
AI Waterfall: How to Spend Less Money on LLMs Using Tiered Intelligence
Author(s): Petros Demetrakopoulos Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Growtika on Unsplash Let’s face it. Gen AI and LLMs have changed forever the way we develop software and write code. Morever, the recent developments in AI have not only changed the …
MCP vs. API: Understanding the Differences and Use Cases
Author(s): Poojan Vig Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine you’re developing a conversational financial advisor that needs to remember your clients’ previous questions to offer truly personalized guidance. Should you use the familiar API approach we all know and love, or the …
TAI #154: Gemini Deep Think, Veo 3’s Audio Breakthrough, & Claude 4’s Blackmail Drama
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google’s flagship I/O 2025 conference and Anthropic’s Claude 4 release delivered further advancements in AI reasoning, multimodal and coding capabilities, and somewhat …
Small Language Models (SLMs): A Practical Guide to Architecture and Deployment
Author(s): Iflal Ismalebbe Originally published on Towards AI. SLM visual showcase with points. (Image Generated By OpenAI) I. Introduction Small Language Models (SLMs) are reshaping how we think about AI efficiency. Unlike their massive counterparts — think GPT-4 or Gemini — SLMs …
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