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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
š Top 7 AI Trends to Watch in 2025
šModern Statistics with R
š¤Meta and Hugging Face team publish benchmark for AI Assistants
š§ MIT Study: Detailed Feedback Makes LLMs Better at Logic
š± Meta debuts āVibesā AI video feed in the Meta AI app
š Google unveils AI mood board tool Mixboard
š” AI Tutorial:How to create flowcharts with ChatGPT
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Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is now a cornerstone for building sophisticated large language model (LLM) applications. By grounding LLMs in external knowledge, RAG mitigates hallucinations and allows models to access proprietary or real-time information. The standard approach typically relies on plain vanilla vector similarity search over text chunks.
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Artificial Intelligence is becoming an integral part of many organizationsā business plans. Already the journey of digital transformation has catapulted thanks to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and because of the pandemic situation.
The aim of Modern Statistics with R is to introduce you to key parts of the modern statistical toolkit. It teaches you: Data wrangling - importing, formatting, reshaping, merging, and filtering data in R.
Researchers from Meta and Hugging Face introduce GAIA, a benchmark of 466 real-world tasks. Instead of superhuman challenges, it focuses on tasks trivial for people but difficult for models, offering a clearer test of practical assistant capabilities.
By mixing structured reasoning with external verification, MIT shows LLMs can learn real logical skills. The approach could help models handle planning, coding, and other complex multi-step problems.
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Vibes is Metaās new way of serving up bite-sized AI videos ready for remixing and resharing. The feed takes weird AI videos and makes them weirder while Meta watches engagement numbers go brrrr.
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The latest Gemini 2.5 update makes Flash models actually flash-y. Theyāre better at using tools, cheaper to run, and less verbose. Google's message is clear: sometimes less AI rambling equals more actual intelligence.
Nearly 80% of Claudeās consumer usage is outside the U.S., with higher per-person use in South Korea, Australia and Singapore. The company plans to triple its international headcount and expand its applied-AI team 5x this year. Reuters reports new offices in Tokyo, Dublin, London and Zurich plus a new international MD, Chris Ciauri. Revenue run-rate rose from about $1B to over $5B in 2025, and business clients grew from <1,000 to 300,000+ in two years.
Google launches Mixboard, a new AI tool for creative moodboards. Google has introduced Mixboard, an AI-powered tool that lets users turn their ideas into visual moodboards. It creates images from simple text prompts and offers smart editing features. The beta is now live in the US.
Google DeepMind has launched two new models in its Gemini Robotics family. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 works as the planner, building multi-step strategies with strong reasoning, vision, and tool use (even pulling info from Google Search when needed). Gemini Robotics 1.5 then carries out those plans, turning instructions and visual input into motor commands so robots can actually perform the tasks.
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How to create flowcharts with ChatGPT
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