AI Unboxed: Edition #3

What's inside?🧾

1. What's cooking in AI this week?

2. The challenge of the week

3. Ctrl+Alt+Deceit : A new comical series

4. Learn Python

5. New jobs to look out for!

6. Fun AI Fact

"The future belongs to those who understand artificial intelligence and harness its potential. Every new innovation is a step closer to a smarter world." - Unknown

What's cooking in AI this week?

🔥 Latest in AI

Big news from OpenAI at #DevDay! They’ve introduced groundbreaking features, including a new real-time API, vision model fine-tuning capabilities, Model Distillation, and Prompt Caching.

🚀 Innovator’s Pick: Ori

Ori ’s new AI toolkit is live! Take advantage of serverless Kubernetes, flexible on-demand GPU access, and reserved instances to supercharge your AI projects.

⚡️ AI Advancements to Watch

• Meta has launched the Llama Stack, an open-source toolset that simplifies AI development, providing standardized solutions across the full development process.

• Pika v1.5 brings mind-blowing updates with enhanced motion realism and effects that seem to defy the laws of physics in AI-generated video.

• Luma AI Labs speeds up video generation, delivering full-quality clips in under 20 seconds—10x faster than before.

• Anaconda, Inc. unveils AI Navigator, a desktop app that lets you run over 200 AI models locally, giving you full control over data privacy.

• Gradio showcases real-time audio transcription with the Whisper Large V3 Turbo in an impressive open-source demo.

📦 Notable HF Models

• NVLM-D-72BAI: This multimodal LLM has outperformed GPT-4V in key benchmarks for vision-language tasks.

• Molmo-7B-D-0924: A 7B-parameter vision-language model that rivals even larger closed-source options.

• Llama-3.2-1B: A compact, multilingual model designed for smaller-scale AI needs.

The challenge of the week

Think you've got what it takes to crack this? Drop your answers in the comments. The first 5 to nail it gets a shoutout in the next edition—let’s see who’s paying attention!

Answer to the previous week's challenge

The author is deeply disappointed that no one has tried to solve it yet! Nonetheless, the author remains resolute, believing that someone, someday, will take on the challenge!

Winner mentions:

None

Ctrl+Alt+Deceit - A new comical series

Introducing "Ctrl+Alt+Deceit"—a chaotic dance of data, danger, and deception. Dr. Algie, the sharp-witted data genius, and Byte, her rogue-ishly charming partner, are on a relentless chase after Cipher—an elusive mastermind leaving cryptic clues buried in the numbers. Every episode is a wild ride through hidden messages, tech twists, and high-stakes mysteries that’ll keep you guessing (and laughing). Ready to see what happens when data fights back? Click to dive in—you won’t look at code the same way again.

Learn Python

Here’s a simple Python script for beginners to learn, using and libraries. This script demonstrates how to load a dataset, preprocess it, and apply a basic machine learning model (Logistic Regression) for classification.

Recently posted AI jobs (with fewer than 10 applicants)

1. AI Developer @ TecQubes Technologies (Remote)

2. LLM Engineer @ Highbrow Technology Inc (Remote)

3. AI LLM Agent Engineer @ Expedite Commerce (Remote)

4. Senior AI Engineer @ Tech9 (Remote)

5. Data Science Intern @ Unified Mentor (Remote)

Fun AI Fact

💡 Fun AI Fact: Did you know that the first-ever chatbot, ELIZA, was created in 1966? Despite being very simple, it could simulate a conversation with a therapist. Interestingly, some people actually believed they were chatting with a real human, even though ELIZA could only repeat or rephrase inputs! This early experiment laid the groundwork for the conversational AI we use today, like Siri and ChatGPT!

🔚 Closing Thoughts

That wraps up this edition! Whether you're diving into the latest AI trends or experimenting with code, I hope you found something inspiring. Remember, the world of AI is evolving rapidly, and there’s always something new to learn. Stay curious, keep innovating, and I’ll catch you in the next edition of AI Unboxed. Until then, feel free to share your thoughts or reach out with any questions—your AI journey is just beginning!

— Arthi Rajendran

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