LAI #78: RAG Evaluation, MCP 101, GRPO Fine-Tuning, and Multimodal Systems
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue is for the builders who care about what works — and how to measure it. We’re starting with a deep dive into RAG evaluation pipelines: …
What is Reinforcement Learning? A Deep and Practical Guide to the Most Powerful Idea in AI | M006
Author(s): Mehul Ligade Originally published on Towards AI. What is Reinforcement Learning? A Deep and Practical Guide to the Most Powerful Idea in AI | M006 📍 Abstract Reinforcement Learning is one of those terms that gets thrown around in the world …
From Pandas to PySpark: My Journey into Big Data Processing
Author(s): Yuval Mehta Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash Working with gigabytes or even terabytes of data is no longer a challenge exclusive to computer giants or scientific labs in the era of big data. These days, …
TAI #156: Gemini 2.5 Pro Takes Benchmark Lead as OpenAI Hits $10bn Revenue
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie The AI industry continues its blistering pace, with major players hitting significant milestones and new tools constantly emerging. This week, OpenAI reportedly hit a …
What They Don’t Tell You About Building with LLMs
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. You’ve seen the threads: “Just use RAG.” “Fine-tune it.” “Build an agent.” They make it sound simple. But if you’ve actually tried working with LLMs — whether it’s building a product, adding …
AI for Humanity: A Guardian’s Vision
Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. A creator is responsible for their creation. We created AI. Will we shape it, or will we allow it to shape us? The Age of AI: A Defining Moment for Humanity Artificial Intelligence (AI) …
RAG in Practice: Exploring Versioning, Observability, and Evaluation in Production Systems
Author(s): Adil Said Originally published on Towards AI. I’ve seen a few posts on LinkedIn recently declaring RAG systems are dead. The core argument? “Context windows are getting bigger, so who needs retrieval anymore?” It got me thinking. RAG only really entered …
LAI #79: How LLMs Learn, Vertical Model Growth, and Smarter Evaluation
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Featured Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue is about getting back to first principles. We’re diving into how LLMs actually learn: what’s under the hood, and why it matters when you’re …
The Future of Software Development with (Generative) AI- Part 1
Author(s): Amir Piltan Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction Over the past decade, AI techniques — particularly deep learning — have been increasingly applied to create AI-Assisted Development (AIAD) tools designed to support developers across various stages of the Software Development Life …
Task Arithmetic for Model Editing
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash Introduction In the 2004 film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Clementine (played by Kate Winslet) and Joel (played by Jim Carey) visit Lacuna Inc. to undergo a revolutionary …
The Persona Pattern: Unlocking Modular Intelligence in AI Agents
Author(s): Talha Nazar Originally published on Towards AI. In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, particularly with the advent of large language models (LLMs), the concept of “personas” has emerged as a pivotal strategy in prompt engineering. By assigning specific roles or …
TAI #157: o3 Drops 80% to Undercut Rivals as o3-pro Creates a New Reliability Tier
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, OpenAI executed a significant strategic shift in its API offer, restructuring its options for high-end reasoning models with a dual announcement: a …
The Clothes Have No Emperor: AI is Ready, but Humanity is Not
Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. “It hallucinates too much.” “I just used it to write an essay.” “It can’t reason.” “I just made my Studio Ghibli image.” These varied reactions underscore a fundamental truth: very few topics divide people …
An Essential Guide for Generative Models Evaluation Metrics
Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Europeana on Unsplash Introduction Generative models are everywhere – The most popular being LLMs. However generative tasks span generating realistic photos (eg. GANs, Diffusion models), to creating text (eg. large language models), …
LAI #90: Research Agents, Model Selection, and Smarter Workflows
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re diving into how AI is evolving beyond quick answers. In What’s AI, we explore research agents: tools built to search, reason, and produce citation-backed reports …
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