Building an Agentic RAG Pipeline: Gemini + ChromaDB + Kaggle → ResuMeme AI
Author(s): Anupama Garani Originally published on Towards AI. Your resume says ‘team player.’ Your formatting says ‘I give up.’ — ResuMeme.AI” It started during a WiDS Career Catalyst volunteering session. This wasn’t a client. This wasn’t a test case. This was someone …
Fighting Style Collapse: Reinforcement Learning with Bit-LoRA for LLM Style Personalization
Author(s): Roman S Originally published on Towards AI. Reward dropout and Bit-LoRA regularization effects. Abstract Here I introduce and experiment with a novel reinforcement learning-based framework for LLM style personalization that uniquely addresses the challenge of style collapse. Unlike existing few-shot prompting …
Responsible AI: Why “Trustworthy” Is Not Enough and What Leaders Must Do Now
Author(s): Shane Culbertson Originally published on Towards AI. Responsible AI — Balancing Ethics and Technology. I have sat in too many boardrooms where AI was discussed like just another line item, an optimization tool, a cost-saver, a shiny new capability. What rarely …
AI Agents for Legal: Implementing Complex Document Search and Reasoning Agent using Qdrant and Llamaindex
Author(s): Sachin Khandewal Originally published on Towards AI. Introduction Legal documents are notoriously complex. Their dense language, intricate structures, and reliance on precedent make them challenging to parse, even for seasoned professionals. This complexity creates significant bottlenecks in the legal industry, where …
TAI #165: GPT-5’s Mixed Reception
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie After months of intense hype and speculation, OpenAI finally released GPT-5, arguably the most anticipated AI model launch of the year. Perhaps, they set …
Introducing Grok 4: Everything to Know About Smarter and Powerful AI
Author(s): Jennifer Wales Originally published on Towards AI. Explore Grok 4 by xAI, Elon Musk’s powerful AI with multimodal support, real-time X integration, and advanced reasoning. See how it compares with other leading AI chatbots The world of AI and chatbots has …
The Modern Data Toolbox: Combining LLMs, ML, and Statistics for Greater Impact
Author(s): Bushra Anjum, Ph.D. Originally published on Towards AI. Co-written with Anna Ransbotham-Cole Matching the Tool to the Task A Quick Recap In our previous article, we focused on the strengths of Large Language Models (LLMs), traditional Machine Learning (ML), and statistical …
Claude Code as a Data Analyst: From Zero to First Report
Author(s): Freddie Robinson Originally published on Towards AI. As data analysts we’ve all been there, the dreaded request for the monthly/yearly [insert topic] report, an essential task that’s also a massive time sink. My thoughts for the last week? “Can’t AI just… …
TAI #167: US and China’s Open-Weight Divergence; Do You Really Need Open-Weight LLMs?
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie The open-weight LLM ecosystem saw another major release this week with DeepSeek-V3.1, an upgrade introducing a hybrid “Think/Non-Think” inference mode for better control over …
Designing Multimodal AI Search Engines for Smarter Online Retail
Author(s): Ashish Abraham Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by David Lezcano on Unsplash “Wow, that shirt looks amazing. I want one just like it!” No brand name, no fashion jargon, not even the fabric. Just a guess and a quick search …