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🤖 Kimi K2 Model Beats GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5
🦾Plus: 📁 Google launches AI file search system
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🎓Top 16 Best Online Deep Learning Courses to learn in 2025
🔧RAG with Ollama and ragnar in R
🌍OpenAI’s new benchmark for Indian languages
🧠Anthropic shows AI models have something on their mind
🌟 Microsoft establishes new Superintelligence Team
💸 Tesla shareholders approve $1T Musk pay package
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create polished presentations fast with AI
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Alibaba-backed Chinese startup Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source reasoning model that matches or exceeds models including GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 Sonnet across a series of benchmarks at much lower cost. Kimi outperformed GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on several agentic benchmarks, also achieving a new top score of 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam.
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Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where artificial neural networks, algorithms inspired by the human brain, learn from large amounts of data. Similarly to how we learn from experience, the deep learning algorithm would perform a task repeatedly, each time tweaking it a little to improve the outcome.
Learn how to build a privacy-preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow in R using Ollama and the ragnar package. Discover step-by-step methods for summarizing health insurance policy documents, automating compliance reporting, and leveraging local LLMs—all within your R environment…
OpenAI just dropped IndQA, a benchmark that actually tests whether AI models understand Indian culture, not just translate words. The benchmark covers 12 languages, including Hinglish, and spans domains from Punjabi music to Kannada linguistics. The bench is filtered to keep only questions that stumped GPT-4o and o3.
New Anthropic research demonstrates that Claude models possess rudimentary introspective awareness. They can identify concepts that researchers inject into their internal representations, and they distinguish between intentional versus accidental outputs by checking their own prior neural states.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
OpenSpec - A spec-driven development framework that forces humans and AI coding agents to agree on specifications before writing code.
SkillsMP - A community marketplace hosting 1132+ skills that extend Claude's capabilities beyond its base functionality. Browse, install, and run specialized tools without writing your own.
SemTools - Adds semantic search capabilities to CLI coding agents. It gives two commands: parse (converts PDFs/docs to markdown via LlamaParse) and search (performs local semantic search using multilingual embeddings).
AI News:
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announced the MAI Superintelligence Team, a research division dedicated to building advanced systems that solve specific problems in areas like medicine and energy over open-ended AGI. Suleyman emphasized building “Humanist Superintelligence”, prioritizing AI that “always works for, in service of, people and humanity more generally.”
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65% of people still prefer voice, but 40% of business calls go unanswered. Now Synthflow Voice AI Agents can answer WhatsApp calls directly — resolving issues, booking, and following up 24/7 with full analytics.
Google unveiled File Search Tool for the Gemini API, creating a fully managed RAG system that handles document retrieval and knowledge grounding automatically. The pricing model makes storage and query-time embedding generation, with developers paying $0.15 per 1M tokens for initial file indexing. Beam, an AI game generation platform using the system, reports search results in seconds
Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s compensation plan, valued at roughly $1 trillion, and increased his stake in the company. The vote passed with over 75% support. The package ties Musk’s payout to aggressive milestones: raising Tesla’s market cap from $1.5 trillion to $8.5 trillion, deploying 1M robotaxis, and selling 1M humanoid robots over the next decade.
Sam Altman says OpenAI expects to reach $20 billion in revenue this year, without taxpayer backing. Altman rejects government bailouts, saying AI firms should bear their own risks. OpenAI plans $1.4 trillion in investments over eight years to meet rising compute demand.
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AI Tutorial
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Upload your document (Word, PDF, or text file)
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