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🚀 Gemma 3n: The developer guide
🦾Plus: 🥊 Meta poaches four OpenAI researchers

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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🛠️Top 50 Big Data Analytics Tools and Software
đź’»CODE EDITOR is coming to xAI's GROK!
🤖12-Factor Agents ⚠️How Data Gaps Undermine AI Systems
🚀 Google’s Gemma 3n brings powerful AI to devices
🤖 Anthropic studies Claude’s emotional support
🥊 Meta poaches four OpenAI researchers
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:Build your AI assistant with automated workflows
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Google recently released an extremely consequential new open weights model that is multimodal by design and optimized for on-device. Gemma 3n accepts text, images, and audio as inputs. Google partnered with AMD, Axolotl, Docker, Hugging Face, llama.cpp, LMStudio, MLX, NVIDIA, Ollama, RedHat, SGLang, Unsloth, and vLLM for the launch, so there are dozens of ways to try out the model. This post presents a quick walkthrough on how to set up and use the model on macOS.
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In this blog, we will be discussing the top 50 big data analytics tools (in no particular order) that are being leveraged by data scientists.

xAI's Grok is getting an advanced code editor that lets users run code inside Grok. Users can talk to it and ask it to modify code or debug it for them. A screenshot of the new feature is available on the post.
🤖12-Factor Agents

This post discusses 12 core engineering techniques that make LLM-powered software more reliable, more scalable, and easier to maintain.

In this article, we’ll examine an internal case study involving our own troubleshooting agent to demonstrate why data quality is one of the biggest risks to production AI—and why you need end-to-end observability to solve it…
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With Thinking Machines Lab, former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is taking a more targeted approach to AI models. Instead of chasing general-purpose superintelligence, she's betting there's more value in building custom AI for specific business needs.
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Anthropic published new research on how Claude is used for emotional support and affective conversations, finding its use is far less common than reported, with companionship and roleplay accounting for under 0.5% of interactions. Researchers analyzed 4.5M Claude conversations using Clio, a tool that aggregates usage patterns while anonymizing individual chats.

Meta has reportedly successfully recruited four OpenAI researchers for its new superintelligence unit, including three from OAI’s Zurich office and one key contributor to the AI leader’s o1 reasoning model. Zuckerberg personally recruited Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, the trio that established OpenAI’s Zurich operations last year.

OpenAI wants to restructure its for-profit arm, but Microsoft is holding back approval. The issue centers on a 2019 clause that allows OpenAI to cut Microsoft off if its board declares AGI has been achieved. Microsoft is pushing to remove the clause, while OpenAI is refusing to let it go. Talks have stalled, and legal action is reportedly on the table.
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AI Tutorial
🤖 Build your AI assistant with automated workflows

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a personal AI assistant that can draft emails, manage tasks, and handle requests using n8n's ability to connect AI models with your favorite apps.
Step-by-step:
Head over to n8n and create a new workflow with a chat trigger
Add an AI Agent with your preferred model (GPT-4, Claude) and a Simple Memory
Connect your apps (Gmail, Calendar, Slack) and set parameters to “define automatically by the model”
Add custom instructions: “You are a helpful assistant with access to email and calendar tools. Use them when users make requests.”
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