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📊 Dreaming of Graphs in the Open Lakehouse
🦾Plus: 💰 Microsoft Joins the $4T Club
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧠Computational Data Science vs. Data Science
💻Alibaba Releases Opensource Qwen3 Coder Flash
📚ML System Design Case Studies Repository
📄RAGFlow - RAG Engine for Deep Document Understanding
🎆 BFL, Krea tackle ‘AI look’ with new image model
📊 Anthropic takes enterprise AI lead as spending surges
💡 AI Tutorial:Create an AI agent with Mistral AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
While Open Lakehouse platforms now natively support tables, geospatial data, vectors, and more, property graphs are still missing. In the age of AI and growing interest in Graph RAG, graphs are becoming especially relevant – there’s a need to deliver Knowledge Graphs to RAG systems, with standards, ETL, and frameworks for different scenarios.
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A computational data scientist might tackle challenges like, “How can we build a real-time fraud detection system that processes millions of transactions per second?” or “How can we simulate protein folding to accelerate drug discovery?”
China’s Alibaba just dropped another opensource code model that matches Claude Sonnet 4's performance while running locally on consumer hardware. Qwen3-Coder-Flash brings agentic coding capabilities to a 30B parameter model that needs just 33GB of RAM, making it accessible to developers who can't afford massive cloud bills or don't want to send their code to third-party APIs.
This repository is a comprehensive collection of 500+ case studies from over 80 leading companies, showcasing practical applications and insights into machine learning (ML) system design. Companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash have shared their experiences, providing a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning how ML is used to improve products and processes…
A new open-source RAG engine built to handle complex data formats with ease.RAGFlow makes it easier to extract insights from real-world documents PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, images by deeply understanding their structure.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Venator (GitHub Repo)
Venator is a flexible threat detection system that simplifies rule management and deployment. It is optimized for Kubernetes deployment but can run standalone or with other job schedulers.
Zero (GitHub Repo)
Zero is a set of types and functions that enables JSX to be transpiled into DOM nodes.
🐉 rust-gpu (GitHub Repo)
rust-gpu is a project still in an early stage that aims to make Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders.
AI News:
Microsoft’s stock price rose so much today that it passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at such a feat after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month.
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Menlo Ventures just released its mid-year LLM market report, revealing that enterprise AI spending is continuing to surge, with Anthropic emerging as the new market leader over OpenAI with a 32% model usage share. The report surveyed 150 technical leaders, finding that enterprises doubled their LLM API spending to $8.4B in the last 6 months.
AI image startup Black Forest Labs and creative platform Krea just released FLUX.1 Krea, an open-weight image model focused on eliminating the typical “AI look” with upgraded photorealism and quality. The model was trained on a diverse, curated dataset to avoid common AI outputs like waxy skin, blurry backgrounds, and oversaturated colors.
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has agreed to sign the “Safety and Security” chapter of the EU’s AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework designed to help AI companies align with the upcoming EU AI law. While this move signals a partial endorsement of European AI oversight, xAI criticized other parts of the code as harmful to innovation and overly restrictive.
Figma has finally begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a long delay. The stock soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. Shareholders originally sold at the IPO price of $33/share, but the price now is between $101-112 with a mid-day market cap of $45 billion. Pretty nice.
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AI Tutorial
Create an AI agent with Mistral AI
Go to Le Chat and select “Agents.”
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Adjust other settings like guardrails, tone, and knowledge accordingly.
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To finalize, click “Open New Chat” and you can start chatting with your agent.
When you're in Le Chat, type “@” to view the list of your created agents.
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