Context Engineering-New Skill in AI 🤖

🦾Plus: Meta Superintelligence Labs 🤖

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

  • 📦How LLMs are served efficiently at scale

  • 📊Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024

  • 🔐Federated Learning with Encrypted Data Sharing

  • 🌐Cursor Launches Web and Mobile Apps

  • 🏥 Microsoft’s ‘step towards medical superintelligence’

  • 🤖 Baidu’s open-source ERNIE 4.5 to rival DeepSeek

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to use Gemini Veo 3 free for 3 months

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

vLLM is an open-source inference engine that serves large language models. This blog post describes how an inference request travels through vLLM's OpenAI-compatible API server and core engine. It focuses on the new V1 architecture of vLLM and how it achieves state-of-the-art text generation performance. Readers should be familiar with the transformer architecture and large language models - a link to a video by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy that explains these is available.

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Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024

Context engineering is the art of providing all the context needed for a task to be plausibly solved by a large language model. Context is everything a model sees before it generates a response - this can include prompts, data in memory, retrieved information, available tools, and definitions for structured output. The secret to building truly effective AI agents is to provide quality context.

FedEDS is a new scheme for federated learning on edge devices that shares encrypted data across clients, addressing performance issues tied to data heterogeneity and physical distribution.

Cursor can now run coding tasks in the background while users are away and works across any browser or mobile device. Teams can review agent-generated diffs and create pull requests directly from the web interface, with Slack integration for notifications and triggering agents.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

This repository contains a collection of language tools and a Language Server Protocol (LSP) implementation for PostgreSQL. 

xan, the CSV magician (GitHub Repo)

xan is a command-line tool that can process CSV files directly from the shell.

AI News:

Meta Superintelligence Labs will house Meta's various teams working on foundation models. It will be led by some of the company's most recent hires, including Scale AI ex-CEO Alexandr Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Meta plans to start research on its next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so.

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Microsoft just introduced the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator, an AI system that achieves 4x higher diagnosis results than experienced doctors on some of medicine’s most challenging cases, marking a “step towards medical superintelligence.”

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Chinese giant Baidu just open-sourced 10 versions of its new ERNIE 4.5 model family, including a 424B parameter multimodal system that outperforms DeepSeek V3 on key benchmarks despite being half the size.

Apple is currently working on three Vision series products and four smart glasses variants. The company reportedly views head-mounted devices as the next major trend in consumer electronics. An upgraded version of the Vision Pro headset with an M5 chip is scheduled to enter mass production in the third quarter of 2025.

OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery announced Chai-2, an AI capable of creating functional antibodies for drug development, — nearing a 20% hit rate that marks a 100x improvement over methods that typically achieve less than 0.1%.

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AI Tutorial

How to use Gemini Veo 3 free for 3 months

Veo 3 videos are going viral everywhere — from ASMR clips to fake blogs and cute animal videos. Here’s how you can try it yourself without paying for a Google AI subscription:

  1. Go to the Google Cloud website and sign up for a free $300 credit trial to unlock higher limits in Vertex AI.

  2. You'll need to enter a billing address, and the credits last 90 days — but you won’t be charged unless you actively choose to subscribe.

  3. Once you’ve signed up for your free Google Cloud trial, go to Vertex AI and select Media Studio.

You can also sign up for a month of Veo 3 for free with the Google AI Pro trial, but make sure to cancel before the trial ends.

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