Introducing Our New Course: AI for Business Professionals
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. The message from leading companies is unmistakable: AI is now an existential competitive challenge. Used effectively, AI significantly enhances productivity and quality. But there’s a catch — when applied poorly or unofficially, …
Beyond Speed: AI Is Unlocking Quality & Innovation. But Most Are Still Not Using AI to its Potential at Work
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Here’s How Non-Technical Professionals Can Become True “AI Power Users” — And Why It’s Harder Than It Looks. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT didn’t just arrive; they detonated a new reality for …
TAI #155: DeepSeek R1’s Reasoning Leap & Unlocking AI’s Untapped Potential at Work
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week marked a strong return for the open-source community, with DeepSeek’s R1–0528 update significantly narrowing the performance gap with state-of-the-art reasoning models. Despite …
The Agent Course You Asked For Just Dropped — $99 Early Access
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Pay $99 for What Companies Pay $50K to Implement “Agent” has become one of the most overused — and underdefined — terms in AI. Sometimes it means “can call a tool.” Sometimes …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
LAI #80: Why LLMs Fail, Reinforcement Pre-Training, and Local Agents That Listen
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue explores why LLMs fail and what we can actually do about it. We’re starting with a look at their core weaknesses: why they struggle with …
TAI #158: The Great Acceleration: AI Revenue, M&A, and Talent Wars Erupt as the Industry Matures
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie While LLM model releases have slowed down lately, the AI industry’s undercurrents of commercialization and consolidation were taken to the next level this week. …
Attention Isn’t All You Need. This Is.
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. We’ve lived through tech hype before. Cloud, big data, blockchain — each made waves, filled pitch decks, and left us chasing buzzwords. But none of them could draft your code, write your …
LAI #81: Reasoning LLMs, Open-Source ChatGPT Alternatives, and Vector DB Showdowns
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue zooms in on how reasoning has become the next benchmark for LLM progress. From spelling out strawberry to solving logic puzzles, we’re no longer impressed …
Serious about AI? Join us from day one.
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Our July Cohort Starts Next Week! AI feels big. Here’s where to start You might not know exactly where to begin with AI, but you know what’s pulling you in. You want …