🚀 10 Game-Changing AI Papers Every Engineer Should Know in 2025
Author(s): MahendraMedapati Originally published on Towards AI. The Research That Built Your AI Career (Whether You Know It or Not) If you’ve been riding the AI wave, you’ve probably heard terms like “transformers,” “RAG,” and “fine-tuning” thrown around like confetti at a …
Choosing the right GenAI customization strategy: Balancing cost, control, and performance
Author(s): Laura Verghote Originally published on Towards AI. A practical framework to choose between RAG, fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and training from scratch — through the lens of balancing cost, control, performance and compliance. As Generative AI systems move from prototypes to production, …
RoPE (Rotary Position Embeddings): A Detailed Example
Author(s): Utkarsh Mittal Originally published on Towards AI. In transformer models, knowing the order of tokens is essential — even though the model processes tokens in parallel. Traditional positional embeddings rely on a fixed “lookup table” (learned for positions up to a …
From JSON to TOON: Evolving Serialization for LLMs
Author(s): Kushal Banda Originally published on Towards AI. TOON (Token Oriented Object Notation) When you’re scaling AI applications, token efficiency isn’t just a buzzword it’s your bottom line. Every token wasted is money left on the table and latency you didn’t ask …
Data Lakes in Enterprises
Author(s): Flora Nanda Originally published on Towards AI. Data is now widely seen as the new “gold standard” in the AI revolution. In the context of AI, data is the critical foundation and enabler for everything from model training to real-time decision-making …
Your Weekly AI Digest: What Happened in AI Last Week (Nov 2–9, 2025)
Author(s): AIversity Originally published on Towards AI. Dive into this week’s power-packed newsletter: Uncover Tesla’s bold AI chip moves, the Cursor 2.0 coding shake-up, a wave of 100K+ tech layoffs, India’s AI showdowns, and three more can’t-miss stories you need on your …
It Looks Like GPT-5.1 Leaked – Polaris Alpha
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Good for coding front-end, a bit slow, new release from OpenAI The AI community is trying to piece together a new wave of discoveries that all seem to point straight at the …
Google I/O 2025: Mind-Blowing AI Breakthroughs You NEED to Know! 🤯🚀
Author(s): Yokeswaran Originally published on Towards AI. Google I/O 2025: Mind-Blowing AI Breakthroughs You NEED to Know! 🤯🚀 Introduction: Google I/O 2025, held on May 20–21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, was a landmark event showcasing Google’s latest advancements …
How Vector Similarity Search Powers RAG and Agentic AI in Enterprise Applications
Author(s): Kapil Deshmukh Originally published on Towards AI. From embeddings to retrieval: mastering vector similarity search for next-gen enterprise AI applications. Photo by Ecliptic Graphic on Unsplash 🚀 Introduction If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT a question like “What animal likes milk?” and …
Getting Started with LangChain: A Fun Guide for Absolute Beginners
Author(s): Kapil Deshmukh Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine you’re building with LLMs (large language models), but every time you need prompts, memory, or tool integration, you reinvent the wheel. Enter LangChain — your LLM-powered Swiss Army knife. Photo by Edge2Edge Media …
10 Must-Know Questions About Large Language Models and Attention Mechanisms
Author(s): Manash Pratim Originally published on Towards AI. 10 Must-Know Questions About Large Language Models and Attention Mechanisms Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, BERT, and LLaMA are transforming the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These models are trained on vast datasets …
The Builder’s Notes: Your CFO Just Called — Except It’s a $2.4M Deepfake and Your AI Approved It
Author(s): Piyoosh Rai Originally published on Towards AI. The fraud alert came through at 3:47 AM. $2.4M wire transfer approved. Biometric voice authentication: passed. Multi-factor authentication: passed. Behavioral analysis: no anomalies detected. The system flagged nothing. By 8:00 AM, the security team …
Revolutionizing Business with AI Automation 🚀
Author(s): Intelligent Hustle Originally published on Towards AI. Revolutionizing Business with AI Automation 🚀 Source: Image by author The startup landscape has fundamentally transformed. Where lean teams once struggled to scale operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning now enable small companies to …
Why Missing Data Is Not Missing at Random and Why That Matters
Author(s): ANGELI WICKRAMA ARACHCHI Originally published on Towards AI. The medical study that got it wrong You’re analyzing a clinical trial for a new antidepressant: 1,000 patients enrolled 700 completed the 3-month follow-up 300 patients have missing follow-up scores Your team says: …
Agentic AI: How Intelligence Learns to Work, Decide, and Evolve on Its Own
Author(s): Hira Ahmad Originally published on Towards AI. Power: Doing More with Less Energy Artificial intelligence is moving beyond simple instructions and fixed responses. We’re now entering the age of agentic AI where systems that can think, plan, and act in dynamic …