OpenAI Invests $50M in NextGenAI Research Consortium
Author(s): Get The Gist Originally published on Towards AI. Plus: Amazon’s New AI Model Challenges OpenAI & Anthropic This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read …
LAI #65 What Happens When You Combine LangGraph, DeepSeek-R1, Function Call, & Agentic RAG
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Ever since we launched our ‘From Beginner to Advanced LLM Developer’ course, many of you have asked for a solid Python foundation to get started. Well, it’s here! …
Complete Guide to the Median: Understanding, Calculating, and Applying It
Author(s): Niklas Lang Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Zhu Hongzhi on Unsplash The median plays a central role in statistics and data analysis, as it can be used …
NN#10 — Neural Networks Decoded: Concepts Over Code
Author(s): RSD Studio.ai Originally published on Towards AI. Neural Networks Competition Over the Years This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. The evolution of artificial neural networks (ANNs) resembles less a steady march forward and more a …
NN#9 — Neural Networks Decoded: Concepts Over Code
Author(s): RSD Studio.ai Originally published on Towards AI. Convergence Assurance Techniques for Modern Deep Learning This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. When we talk about neural networks, we often fixate on the architecture — how many …
Opera Unveils AI Browser Operator & Web Automation
Author(s): Get The Gist Originally published on Towards AI. Plus: Google’s Gemini Live Adds Video and Screen Sharing This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read …
I Created an Openai API Server, Because There Wasn’t One
Author(s): Fabio Matricardi Originally published on Towards AI. I analyzed OpenVINO’s complexities and built my own API Server in 20 hours — from the idea to the code: the hidden truth about coding with Claude as an AI assistant. This member-only story …
TAI #142: GPT-4.5 Released — But Can It Stack Up Against Reasoning Models?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week’s GPT-4.5 release landed with predictable excitement but, perhaps more tellingly, also sparked some debate. Despite being OpenAI’s largest and most expensive model …
Decoding the LLM Pipeline: How Large Language Models Work in 8 Steps
Author(s): Ecem Karaman Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction: Making Sense of the Black Box On the surface, LLMs seem pretty straightforward — you type something in, and they generate a response. Simple input, simple output. But under the hood, it’s a …
Beyond Training Data: How RAG Lets LLMs Retrieve, Not Guess
Author(s): DarkBones Originally published on Towards AI. Source: Image by the author generated with Flux. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 don’t actually ‘know’ anything, they predict words based on old training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) changes that by letting AI pull …
The Rise of Diffusion LLMs
Author(s): Mirko Peters Originally published on Towards AI. Diffusion models represent a game-changing approach to language modeling, offering remarkable speed and unique capabilities compared to traditional architectures. Their capacity for multimodal applications could redefine how we interact with AI. This member-only story …
Small and Cool: Inside Microsoft’s New Phi-4-Mini and Phi-4-Multimodal
Author(s): Jesus Rodriguez Originally published on Towards AI. Createed Using Midjourney I recently started an AI-focused educational newsletter, that already has over 175,000 subscribers. TheSequence is a no-BS (meaning no hype, no news, etc) ML-oriented newsletter that takes 5 minutes to read. …
Top 25 AI-Related Highlights from the WEF Future of Jobs 2025 Report
Author(s): Murat Girgin Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding the intersection of artificial intelligence and tomorrow’s workforce is the initial step to be prepared better for the future of work. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. …
Mastering the Basics: How Decision Trees Simplify Complex Choices
Author(s): Miguel Cardona Polo Originally published on Towards AI. “Trees playing Baseball” by author using DALL·E 3. Decision trees form the backbone of some of the most popular machine learning models in industry today, such as Random Forests, Gradient Boosted Trees, and …
Rethinking Imbalance: LLM Embeddings for Detecting Subtle Irregularities
Author(s): Elangoraj Thiruppandiaraj Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. I’ve worked on anomaly detection problems for a while now, and one obstacle I consistently face is extreme imbalance in the data. …