Setting Up TensorFlow with GPU (CUDA): A Step-by-Step Installation Guide
Author(s): Muaaz Originally published on Towards AI. If you are writing Deep Learning code on a machine with a GPU, TensorFlow will default to running on the CPU. This happens because TensorFlow does not automatically select the best hardware. To use the …
Why 90% of Agentic RAG Projects Fail (And How to Build One That Actually Works in Production)
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Gemini Most enterprise AI pilots fail. McKinsey’s research found only 10–20% of AI proofs-of-concept scale beyond pilots. Why? Teams treat production systems like demos. I’ve seen companies spend six months building agentic …
This is How Google Finally Fixed AI Images: The Secret Sauce Behind “Nano Banana”
Author(s): Sayan Chowdhury Originally published on Towards AI. This is How Google Finally Fixed AI Images: The Secret Sauce Behind “Nano Banana” If you’ve been on the internet in the last six months, you’ve seen them: those hyper-realistic 3D figurines of your …
The “Sora” Trap: Why Meta’s V-JEPA 2 Proves That Hallucinating Pixels is Not “Planning”
Author(s): Siddharth M Originally published on Towards AI. While the world obsesses over AI video generation, a team at Meta just dropped a 1-Billion parameter “World Model” that plans robot actions by ignoring reality’s noise. Here is the definitive engineering deep dive …
Claude Just Broke Bioinformatics
Author(s): Gowtham Boyina Originally published on Towards AI. Anthropic’s secret plugin marketplace lets AI auto-search PubMed, analyze single-cell data, and generate publication-ready figures — no more switching tabs. (And it’s already live.) If you’ve used Claude Code for bioinformatics or research, you’ve …
We’ve Been Building AGI Wrong This Whole Time
Author(s): Gaurav Shrivastav Originally published on Towards AI. AGI isn’t about smarter models — it’s about giving them the right tools. I realized something uncomfortable last week. Image Credit: Nano Banana ProThe article discusses the misconception that advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) …
What Mistakes Did I Make in Vibe Coding Genie-Hi
Author(s): Gabrielle Y Originally published on Towards AI. The First Leap: When Vibe Coding Feels Like Magic When I first started vibe coding Genie-Hi, I genuinely thought it would simply help me move faster. I typed a few sentences describing what I …
How Video Streaming Actually Works: Why YouTube Starts Playing in 3 Seconds (System Design Explained)
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Gemini You click play on a YouTube video. Within 2 seconds, it starts playing. But here’s what blows my mind: that video is 4 GB, sitting on a server thousands of miles …
The Complete RAG Playbook (Part 3): Advanced Architectures
Author(s): Ravi Kumar Verma Originally published on Towards AI. The Complete RAG Playbook (Part 3): Advanced Architectures In Part 2, we upgraded the basic RAG pipeline with 12 techniques that improved chunking, context, queries, and retrieval. Those techniques work great — until …
The Complete RAG Playbook (Part 4): Evaluation & Choosing What Works
Author(s): Ravi Kumar Verma Originally published on Towards AI. The Complete RAG Playbook (Part 4): Evaluation & Choosing What Works We’ve covered 19 RAG techniques across three parts. You’ve seen chunking strategies, context enrichment, query transforms, rerankers, and advanced architectures. But there’s …
No Libraries No Shortcuts: Reasoning Models from Scratch with PyTorch — Part 1
Author(s): Ashish Abraham Originally published on Towards AI. The no BS Guide to implementing LLMs with Mixture of Experts, RoPE, and Grouped Query Attention from scratch There is this term called “moment” that has been spooking and exciting AI investors of this …
The ML Evaluation Math You Can Actually Trust
Author(s): Akshat shah Originally published on Towards AI. Train/Val/Test, Cross-Validation, and Data Leakage Photo by Thomas T on Unsplash Machine learning isn’t just “a model that predicts things.” In the real world it’s a measurement process. You build a pipeline, and you …
The Ghost Teacher: Why Yann LeCun Says “Generative” AI might be a Dead End
Author(s): Siddharth M Originally published on Towards AI. Meta’s latest 7B-parameter vision model (DINOv3) proves that “labels” are the bottleneck of intelligence. Here is the definitive engineering deep dive into Gram Anchoring, the Ghost Teacher, and the future of Objective-Driven AI. Yann …
Beyond Vector Search: Building an Adaptive Retrieval Router for Agentic AI Systems
Author(s): Abi Originally published on Towards AI. A hands-on guide to making retrieval a learnable decision layer—with code, architecture, and production trade-offs. Vector search works great for “one query, one answer” workflows. But agentic AI systems retrieve multiple times across a plan …
SQL for Data Analysts:
Author(s): Gitanjali Originally published on Towards AI. SQL powers most data analyst roles today. If you work with data, chances are you will spend a large part of your day writing SQL queries. SQL allows you to work directly with data stored …