AI Bots Recreated Social Media’s Toxicity
Author(s): Michael Ludwig Originally published on Towards AI. I was driving home last Tuesday, half-listening to a tech podcast, when something made me pull over. The host was describing an experiment where researchers created a social network populated entirely by AI bots. …
The Next Frontier in NLP: Smarter Agents, Not Just Bigger Models
Author(s): CapeStart Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine a world where AI not only mimics human summaries but also exceeds them in quality. For years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has relied on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to train language models to replicate human-written …
The Newsletter Template Prompt That Changed My Email Marketing Game
Author(s): Hui Zhu Originally published on Towards AI. I Used to Dread Sunday Nights Sunday evening used to be my least favorite time of the week. Not because the weekend was ending — I love my work — but because I knew …
Crushing ML Latency: The (Un)Official Best Practices for Systems Optimisation
Author(s): Natalia Sikora Originally published on Towards AI. TLDR: This guide offers a concise, accessible, intermediate-level overview addressing training latency issues for ML researchers / programmers. It covers best practices for systems optimisation, while emphasising (especially for newcomers) the crucial details that …
Beyond Scarcity: How LLM-Driven Synthetic Data Generation is Reshaping AI
Author(s): Burak Degirmencioglu Originally published on Towards AI. In the world of artificial intelligence, data is the new oil. But what happens when that oil is scarce, locked behind privacy walls, or simply too expensive to acquire? This post explores a revolutionary …
How to Design Efficient Memory Architectures for Agentic AI Systems
Author(s): Suchitra Malimbada Originally published on Towards AI. A practical guide to building agentic AI systems that manage memory efficiently using hierarchical memory architectures, knowledge graphs, and forgetting machanisms, covering everything needed to know before designing memory architecture. A gif showing how …
Grokipedia: The AI-Powered Encyclopedia That’s Challenging Wikipedia
Author(s): Baivab Mukhopadhyay Originally published on Towards AI. Is this the future of knowledge, or just another tech experiment? On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s AI company XAI launched something that’s making waves in the world of online knowledge: Grokipedia. It’s an …
Training your reasoning models with GRPO: A practical guide for VLMs Post Training with TRL
Author(s): Phrugsa Limbunlom (Gift) Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Theo Crazzolara on Unsplash Enhancing visual-language reasoning through reinforcement learning optimization using a rented GPU from Vast.ai. Table of Content · Introduction· Reinforcement Learning in Language models· Group Relative Policy Optimization …
TAI #176: DeepSeek’s Optical Compression: A Cheaper OCR or a New Path for LLMs?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie DeepSeek has been relatively quiet this year after a series of huge innovations in 2024 culminated in it breaking into mainstream awareness in early …
Does Cognition AI Matter When We Already Have Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot?
Author(s): M Originally published on Towards AI. How a startup became a $10.2B company without being the smartest in the room. Crazy amounts of money are flowing into AI coding startups, yet we’re already drowning in AI coding tools. GitHub Copilot suggests …