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Building software on top of Large Language Models 🤖
🦾Plus: 💬 xAI brings Grok to Telegram's billion users
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🔌 20 ChatGPT Plugins for Data Science
📊Understanding Panel Data Models
🧠Mistral AI has released Codestral Embed model
⚙️Build Full MCP Servers with Zero Boilerplate
🖥️ Opera launches first ‘AI agentic browser’
👨🏫 Gen Z is Ditching Their Bosses for ChatGPT
💡 AI Tutorial:Automate project meeting documentation
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that makes use of LLMs. Most of the workshop was interactive: I created a detailed handout with six different exercises, then worked through them with the participants
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In this article, we will dive into 20 ChatGPT plugins specifically designed to enhance data science workflows and empower data scientists to unlock the full potential of their projects.
Panel data analysis represents one of the most powerful and versatile approaches in modern social science. By combining cross-sectional and time-series dimensions, panel data provides researchers with a multifaceted view of phenomena that would be impossible to obtain with either dimension alone.
Mistral AI has released Codestral Embed, a new embedding model built specifically for code. It performs especially well for retrieval use cases on real-world code data, great for high-performance retrieval in coding agents and dev tools. It outperforms Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0, and OpenAI’s embedding model across multiple benchmarks like SWE-bench, code2code, and text2sql.
Golf is an opensource framework that makes it radically simple to build production-grade MCP servers. You just write the tools, prompts, and resources you want agents to call.Model Context Protocol has become the de facto standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and services.
Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LiveStore (GitHub Repo)
LiveStore is a fully-featured, client-centric data layer with a reactive embedded SQLite database powered by real-time sync.
DuckLake (GitHub Repo)
DuckLake is an open Lakehouse format that stores metadata in a catalog database and stores data in Parquet files.
AI News:
Elon Musk's xAI just struck a 1-year deal with Telegram, bringing its Grok chatbot to over a billion messaging app users this summer in exchange for $300M and a revenue-sharing agreement. Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the deal (agreed in principle) on X, with the partnership including $300M paid to Telegram in both cash and equity.
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Opera just introduced Neon, a new web browser that automates web tasks, creates content with AI agents, and enables users to code using natural language — claiming to be the world’s first AI agentic browser. Neon’s AI assistant integrates directly in-browser, handling searches, providing contextual info, and answering questions.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just warned lawmakers and the public that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar positions in the next five years and drive unemployment as high as 20%. Amodei predicts AI will write 90% of software code within 6 months and virtually all code within a year, completely reshaping tech employment.
Forget career coaching, awkward check-ins, or asking your manager for help. A new survey shows 49% of Gen Z workers now rely more on ChatGPT than their own boss for answers at work. And they’re talking to it like a co-worker… even a friend or therapist.
The data comes from a Resume survey of 8,647 full-time U.S. workers.
Chinese researchers developed FLARE, a new AI model capable of predicting stellar flares and uncovering new insights about stars and potential habitable exoplanets.
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AI Tutorial
📊 Automate project meeting documentation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an automated system with Zapier Agents that can turn meeting recordings into transcripts, summaries, and actionable task lists in Google Docs.
Step-by-step:
Visit Zapier Agents and create a “New Agent”
Configure your agent to trigger when new audio files are uploaded to a specified folder in Google Drive
Add three essential tools: ChatGPT to transcribe the audio, ChatGPT again to summarize and extract action points, and Google Docs to compile everything into a single document
Test your setup with a sample recording and activate your agent
Create How-to Videos in Seconds with AI
Stop wasting time on repetitive explanations. Guidde’s AI creates stunning video guides in seconds—11x faster.
Turn boring docs into visual masterpieces
Save hours with AI-powered automation
Share or embed your guide anywhere
How it works: Click capture on the browser extension, and Guidde auto-generates step-by-step video guides with visuals, voiceover, and a call to action.
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Trolly AI: Revolutionizing SEO Content Creation with Advanced AI Technology.
Videotok is the perfect tool if you want to create viral videos without wasting time editing
WriteText.ai is a solution specifically designed for WordPress/WooCommerce that automates the creation of product text and meta descriptions.
SinglebaseCloud is an all-in-one AI-Powered backend-as-a-service platform to build mobile and web apps fast.
HRbrain -Transforming HR landscapes. Designed for tomorrow’s challenges.
Text-Humanizer-Free Advanced AI Text Content Humanizer Tool
Architecture Helper is a platform for analyzing and exploring various architectural styles
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