TAI #150: Qwen3 Impresses as a Robust Open-Source Contender
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, the AI spotlight turned to Alibaba’s Qwen team with the launch of Qwen3, a comprehensive new family of large language models. Offering …
LAI #72: From Python Groundwork to Function Calling, ICL Theory, and Load Balancing MoEs
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week’s issue bridges two ends of the spectrum: the foundations you need to get started, and the nuanced tools and ideas shaping how we build with AI …
TAI#149: OpenAI’s Agentic o3; New Open Weights Inference Optimized Models (DeepMind Gemma, Nvidia Nemotron-H)
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, OpenAI finally released its anticipated o3 and o4-mini models, shifting the focus towards AI agents that skillfully use tools. DeepMind also made …
LAI #71: Open-Sora: $200K Video Model, HPC’s Unsung Hero, and 10 Ways LLMs Fail in the Wild
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week from the AI community: Open‑Sora 2.0 shows what open-source video generation can do on a tight budget. We also cover JAX’s growing role in high-performance computing, …
TAI #148: New API Models from OpenAI (4.1) & xAI (grok-3); Exploring Deep Research’s Scaling Laws
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, AI developers got their hands on several significant new model options. Adding to the new Llama 4 model options last week, OpenAI …
LAI #70: Math Behind Ghibli-Fication, MCP, Deep Research Tools, and Quantum!
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! There’s a lot going on in the world of AI lately, and we know it’s not always easy to keep up. So, in this issue, we’ve rounded up …
TAI #147: Llama 4 Launch & Digesting Gemini Pro 2.5’s Breakthrough Impact
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie Despite Meta releasing its long-anticipated Llama 4 models, our minds were fixated on further testing Gemini Pro 2.5 this week. It took time to …
LAI #69: What Exactly Are AI Agents? Let’s Solve This and Build Them
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we are diving into fundamentals with Notebook comparisons (Jupyter vs. Google Colab), defining AI agents once and for all, casual inference, techniques like multi-teacher distillation, and …
TAI #146: What does GPT-4o’s Native Image Gen Mean for Art, Artists, and AI Adoption?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, OpenAI’s native image generation with GPT-4o within ChatGPT captured viral attention, reminiscent of the buzz around the original ChatGPT launch and Deepseek’s …
LAI #68: The Tech Behind Deepseek, an Open AI Agent, and Why LLM Evals Matter
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! This week, we’re diving into some of the most talked-about developments in LLMs and AI agents. First, we’re exploring Deepseek and the technique behind its performance — FlashMLA. …
TAI #145: Hybrid Mamba Models Enter the Race as Inference API Costs 10x with o1-pro
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie This week saw AI inference costs balloon as OpenAI launched its most expensive model yet, o1-pro, via API. It is priced at an eye-watering …
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! …
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