TAI #159: China’s Open-Model Offensive vs. Meta’s $multi-billion Gamble on AI Talent Acquisition
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week felt like a tale of two AI strategies unfolding in parallel. In China, the open-source movement gained additional momentum as Baidu joined …
LAI #82: MCP, Byte-Level LLMs, Vision Transformers, and the Week Backprop Finally Clicked
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue zooms in on what happens when you go one layer deeper, whether it’s understanding MCP for smarter tool integrations, or hand-coding backprop to finally grasp …
TAI #160: More Leaps in AI for Health; Drug Discovery and Diagnosis With Chai-2, AlphaGenome and MAI-DxO
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie While the discourse around AI (including our own!) is often dominated by language models and agents, this week brought a powerful reminder of another, …
Lesson 6 is Live: Fine-Tuning, LoRA, RLHF & the Tools That Give You Real Control
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. If you’ve watched the first two tutorials in the 10-hour LLM Primer, you already know what prompting can do, and you’ve seen how retrieval takes it a step further. But if you’ve …
LAI #83: Corrective RAG, Real-Time PPO, Adaptive Retrieval, and LLM Scaling Paths
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue is all about building AI systems that can recover. Whether it’s a query that needs re-routing, a retrieval step that missed the mark, or a …
TAI #161: Grok 4’s Benchmark Dominance vs. METR’s Sobering Reality Check on AI for Code
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie It was a very eventful week in AI, with xAI dominating the headlines for both mixed reasons. On one hand, the release of Grok …
Free Cheat Sheet from Our 10-Hour LLM Primer
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. How to Really Build on Top of LLMs Everyone starts with prompts. But if you’ve ever built beyond a toy project, you’ve probably hit this wall: The model sounds fluent, but the …
LAI #84: Prompting as a Skill, DINOv2 Embeddings, and Claude vs. OLMo 2
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue starts at the foundation: prompting. As more teams adopt LLMs, the ability to shape outputs through structured prompting is becoming a core skill, more spreadsheet …
TAI #162: The Agentic Era of AI: From IMO Gold to Real-World Work with ChatGPT Agent
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie LLMs crossed the 100‑minute reasoning horizon this week while AI developments also showcased the incredible potential of frontier models, the aggressive competitive race to …
LAI #85: Agents That Work, LLaVA Training, and the $40K RAG Deal
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Everyone’s excited about agents, until they have to actually build one. This week’s top stories are a perfect reality check. In What’s AI, we break down what agents …
Stop Guessing With AI; Make It Second Nature
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Everyone’s trying AI. Few are making it work the way they hoped. One day, ChatGPT or Claude speeds things up. The next, you’re rewriting its entire output. Most people end up wondering …
TAI #163: AI Unlocking History’s Secrets; Deepmind’s Aeneas Continues A Recent Trend
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, Google put the scale of the recent LLM adoption takeoff into perspective, revealing that Gemini processed 980 trillion tokens in June 2025. …
LAI #86: LLM Gaps, Agent Design, and Smarter Semantic Caching
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue focuses on a recurring theme: most breakthroughs don’t happen in spite of model limitations, they happen because of them. In What’s AI, we break down …
TAI #164: Generative AI Monetization Accelerates As ChatGPT Weekly Active Users Hit 13% of the Global Online Population
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Evidence of the LLM industry’s transition from research and hype to tangible revenue and adoption accumulated further this week. After years of GPU splurges …
LAI #87: Recurrent Memory, Agentic RAG, and Evaluating LLM Writing
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue highlights how researchers and the community are stretching what’s possible across architectures, workflows, and open collaboration. We look at: A new class of recurrent networks …
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