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āļøAn Engineer's Guide to AI Code Model Evals
ā”GitHub Spark: Build Full-Stack AI Apps in Minutes
š»AI Agent Lands in Your Terminal: Meet Grok CLI
š Elon Musk's Neuralink Joins Study Working Toward a Bionic Eye
š” AI Tutorial:How to create professional UIs with simple text
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Apple released FastVLM, a vision-language model that runs blazingly fast on your iPhone while actually seeing what's in high-resolution images. The hybrid encoder architecture processes visual data up to 85x faster than comparable models without the accuracy penalty that comes with speed optimizations. The model runs entirely on-device with near real-time performance on iPhone GPUs.
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As the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models continues to progress and evolve, it is becoming essential to manage them through dedicated technical platforms and model hubs such as Verta, a platform that notably offers the ModelOps option.
A crucial part of the process of improving a coding-capable AI model is evaluation (evals). Evals are structured tests or benchmarks used to measure model performance on specific tasks. They are analogous to unit tests or integration tests in software. This post explores what evals are, how they're constructed, what 'hill climbing' means in model development, and how all these pieces connect to the continuous training and improvement of coding models.
GitHub just launched Spark, an AI-powered dev tool that turns your ideas into full-stack apps with just a description! No setup needed: describe your app in plain English, and Spark auto-generates frontend, backend, and AI components (powered by Claude Sonnet 4). Currently in public preview for Copilot Pro+ users, this could revolutionize how we build software.
The terminal is getting crowded with AI agents. OpenAI dropped Codex CLI, Anthropic shipped Claude Code, Google launched Gemini CLI, and Qwen released their own command-line coding tool. And now Grok CLI joins the party. This isn't an official xAI product but rather a community-built weekend project that brings Grok's conversational AI directly to your terminal.
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China just released an AI action plan at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, proposing an international cooperation organization and emphasizing open-source development, coming just days after the U.S. published its own strategy. The action plan calls for joint R&D, open data sharing, cross-border infrastructure, and AI literacy training, especially for developing nations.
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Runway just unveiled Aleph, a new āin-contextā video model that edits and transforms existing footage through text prompts ā handling tasks from generating new camera angles to removing objects and adjusting lighting.
Neuralink is collaborating with researchers in California and Spain on a clinical trial to study visual prosthetics. The study, sponsored by the University of California at Santa Barbara, aims to address the fundamental questions that will allow the development of a Smart Bionic Eye. Such a device would use AI to help blind people identify faces, navigate the outdoors, and read, among other things.
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According to a leaked internal presentationāmade public by the Washington Postāthe US āDepartment of Government Efficiencyā (DOGE), which Elon Musk previously led, is deploying an "AI Deregulation Decision Tool" designed to help federal agencies identify and create a ādelete listā of government regulations that are no longer needed.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, has warned people who use ChatGPT as a therapist that their chats are not private or legally protected, and that deleted chats can still be retrieved for legal or security reasons. According to Altman, āyoung people, especially, use [ChatGPT] - as a therapist or coach,ā but āif you talk to a therapist, lawyer, or doctorā¦ there's doctor-patient protectionā¦we haven't figured that out for ChatGPT."
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How to create professional UIs with simple text
Go to HeroUI and sign up with your account.
Enter your prompt and press Enter.
Sample Prompt: āCreate a sales analysis dashboard for an e-commerce website.ā
Once generated, you can click on the Select and Edit options at the top to choose which part of the UI to edit.
You can also prompt it to make changes or ask follow-up questions.
Once all changes are made, click on the Code option to copy the code. You can even deploy it or share it with others.
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