LAI #66: Information Theory for People in a Hurry
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, I’m heading to San Jose, CA, for Nvidia GTC, happening from March 17 to 21. I’ll attend many discussions and am excited to meet some of …
TAI #143: New Scaling Laws Incoming? Ilya’s SSI Raises at $30bn, Manus Takes AI Agents Mainstream
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie As Ilya Sutskever’s Safe SuperIntelligence (SSI) secures another $2bn round at a hefty $30bn valuation, speculation has grown around what he is working on …
LLMs Are “Just” Coding Assistants — But That Still Changes Everything
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding the Role of LLMs in Modern Coding: A Guide for Aspiring Developers The rise of large language models (LLMs) has made AI development more accessible than ever. You can generate text, …
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! …
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 …
Introducing Our Python Primer for Generative AI
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. The First Python Course Designed for AI Development — from scratch! This week, we are excited to announce our most requested course, Python Primer for Generative AI — designed to help you …
#64 Here’s how you keep up with AI!
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re diving into a challenge many of us face: keeping up with the rapid pace of AI and answering some extremely thought-provoking questions, such as: Is …
TAI #141: Claude 3.7 Sonnet; Software Dev Focus in Anthropic’s First Thinking Model
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet reasoning model stole the show this week. This is partly due to how quickly you can test and see the …
#63: Full of Frameworks: APDTFlow, NSGM, MLFlow, and more!
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we are introducing new frameworks through hands-on guides such as APDTFlow (addresses challenges with time series forecasting), NSGM (addresses variable selection and time-series network modeling), and …
#62 Will AI Take Your Job?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Yet another week, and reasoning models and Deepseek are still the most talked about in AI. We are joining the bandwagon with this week’s resources focusing on whether …
TAI #139: LLM Adoption; Anthropic Measures Use Cases. OpenAI API Traffic up 7x in 2024
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google DeepMind expanded access to Gemini 2.0, OpenAI increased transparency in ChatGPT’s reasoning and thinking steps, and Mistral launched its rapid AI …
#61: Are LLMs Entering the Age of Agents?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Reasoning agents seem to have taken over AI in the last couple of weeks. While it is early, this class of reasoning-powered agents is likely to progress LLM …
TAI #138: OpenAI’s o3-Mini and Deep Research: A New Era of Reasoning Powered Agents?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie We realize that we have been alternating between OpenAI and DeepSeek-focused discussions recently, but this is with good reason, given some very impressive models …
#60: DeepSeek, CAG, and the Future of AI Reasoning
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! The last two weeks in AI have been all about Deepseek-R1. So this week’s issue includes resources and discussions on that, along with emerging techniques such as CAG, …
TAI #137: DeepSeek r1 Ignites Debate: Efficiency vs. Scale and China vs. US in the AI Race
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week’s AI discourse centered on DeepSeek’s r1 release, which sparked a heated debate about its implications for OpenAI, GPUs, and the broader industry. …