👨‍💻 An Engineer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 📊How to Get Started Monitoring ML Models in Production

• 🐍Python can run Mojo now

• 🚀Microsoft debuted Mu, a new small language model

• 🤖 Void IDE: The Open-Source Cursor Alternative

• 🧠 Grok may rival Google Workspace

• 🗣️ElevenLabs debuts new voice assistant

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn GitHub projects into coding inspiration

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

An Engineer’s Guide to Fine-Tuning LLMs

You're building a Q&A assistant for your internal analytics platform. You start with a powerful base model like Llama 3 or GPT-4o and implement a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline to feed it your table schemas and query examples. Fine-tuning fundamentally changes the model itself. By updating the model's internal weights on your own curated data, you aren't just telling it how to act—you are reshaping it to be the model your product needs.

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How to Get Started Monitoring Your Machine Learning Models in Production

Machine learning model monitoring refers to tracking and understanding your production models’ performance from a science and operation point of view. In other words, it’s the tracking of a Machine learning model during production so that you can fix any potential issues that may negatively impact your business.

Python can run Mojo now

Python can call Mojo code now. The setup is pretty simple - this post walks through how to set it up and provides some examples of how to use it. Development on the stack is still early, so it's not yet production-ready. Mojo is a lot easier to learn than Rust while still providing a meaningful function speedup.

🚀Microsoft debuted Mu, a new small language model

Microsoft launches newest on-device small language model, Mu. This model addresses scenarios that require inferring complex input-output relationships and has been designed to operate efficiently, delivering high performance while running locally. Specifically, this is the language model that powers the agent in Settings,  available to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel with Copilot+ PCs, by mapping natural language input queries to Settings function calls.

Void IDE, Open-Source Alternative to Cursor

A new open-source AI-powered code editor, Void IDE, was recently released in beta, positioning itself as a privacy-focused and free alternative to popular closed-source AI editors like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Backed by Y Combinator, Void IDE is a fork of Visual Studio Code.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

magic-cli
Magic CLI is a command line utility which uses LLMs to help you use the command line more efficiently.

Toit
Toit is a modern high-level language designed specifically for microcontrollers.

Korvus
Korvus is a search SDK that unifies the entire RAG pipeline in a single database query. Built on top of Postgres with bindings for Python, JavaScript, Rust and C.

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🗣️ElevenLabs debuts new voice assistant

AI voice platform ElevenLabs just launched 11ai, an in-house voice assistant that connects to tools via Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to execute tasks rather than just answer questions. The experimental alpha release integrates with platforms like Perplexity, Linear, Slack, and Notion, allowing users to manage tasks through voice commands.

🧠 Grok may rival Google Workspace

Leaked code has revealed that Elon Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, is developing an advanced file editor (with support for spreadsheets) for its AI tool, Grok, which will enable users to interact with Grok while editing files.

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Co-founder of Perplexity and Databricks, Andy Konwinski, has launched an AI research non-profit, called The Laude Institute, which he has personally funded with $100M from his own pocket. The research institute has a board with top experts from Google, Meta, and UC Berkley, who will award grants to start-ups “to enhance computer science research and promote positive societal outcomes.”

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AI Tutorial

💻 How to turn GitHub projects into coding inspiration

In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform any public GitHub repository into structured documentation that you can use as inspiration for building similar projects in your coding environment, like Cursor.

Step-by-step:

1. Search GitHub for public repositories related to your project idea

2. Copy the repository URL and replace “github.com” with “gittodoc.com” to generate clean documentation

3. In your coding environment, start a new project and use “@addnew” to import the GitToDoc URL as a reference

4. Build your own version and enhance it with follow-up features: “Add batch generation” or “Include custom styling options”

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