Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents 🤖

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

  • 🔮Top 15 Artificial Intelligence Trends to watch In 2025

  • 🧩Opensource Fully-Customizable Deep Research Framework

  • 💻Use Cursor's Guide to Streamline Web Development with MCP

  • ⚡ How Open Models and Cheaper Inference Are Shaping AI's Next Leap

  • 🧠 Meta’s fully automated AI ad platform

  • 🎬 Character.AI unveils video generation

  • 📱 Samsung Eyes Perplexity’s AI Tech

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to run the new DeepSeek model locally

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

The landscape of AI agent tools is evolving rapidly. After publishing my previous post, I received suggestions for additional packages I hadn't encountered. Over the past few months, I've tested these tools and documented new, valuable agent-related libraries. This post shares my updated insights.

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Artificial Intelligence is becoming an integral part of many organizations’ business plans. Already the journey of digital transformation has catapulted thanks to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and because of the pandemic situation.

JigsawStack has released Deep Research, an opensource framework that brings the power of tools like ChatGPT's Deep Research and Perplexity's comprehensive search directly into your development workflow. This framework gives developers full control over multi-hop research with customizable LLM orchestration.

Linear MCP servers expose different tools that Cursor can use to read and manage issues. Web development often involves fast iterations and tight feedback loops between Cursor and external tools like Figma or the browser. At Cursor, we’ve found workflows that tighten this loop. Clear task scoping, reusing components, and leveraging design systems help keep things fast and consistent.

The BOND 2025 AI Trends Report from Mary Meeker highlights rapid AI growth driven by open-source model adoption, hardware breakthroughs, and a rising number of AI roles. These trends show where performance, economics, and adoption are heading.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Svelvet Is a Svelte component library for building interactive node-based flow diagrams. It allows users to create flow diagrams using pre-built components with zooming and panning, draggable interactivity, customizable edges, nodes, and more. An interactive demo is available.

This repository contains the React components for the Cloudscape Design System. Cloudscape is a design system for building web applications that offers interactive guidelines, frontend components, design resources, and development tools

DwarFS is a read-only file system with very high compression ratios for very redundant data.

AI News:

Microsoft just announced Bing Video Creator, integrating OpenAI’s Sora video generation model into the Bing mobile app and allowing users to create five-second outputs from text descriptions with no subscription required. Users get 10 fast video generations and unlimited slower generations, and can earn more fast credits through Microsoft's rewards program.

Through Squarespace’s cutting-edge features that combine automation, design presets, creative guidance, and generative AI, Design Intelligence makes it easy to build a beautiful and impactful website. With just a few pieces of information, Blueprint AI generates an entire website customized based off your brand’s goals, name, and personality. It’s AI speed, with Squarespace’s 20+ years of design expertise in website building. 

Meta aims to release tools that eliminate humans from the advertising process by 2026, according to a report from the WSJ — developing an AI that can create ads for Facebook and Instagram using just a product image and budget. Companies would submit product images and budgets, letting AI craft the text and visuals, select target audiences, and manage campaign placement.

Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

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Samsung is closing in on an investment in AI search startup Perplexity that would also see the Korean tech giant incorporating the AI company’s tech into its devices, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.

The US FDA launched an agency-wide genAI tool called “Elsa” to help reviewers and investigators streamline tasks like summarizing adverse events and generating database code despite employee concerns about the rollout.

AI Tutorial

How to run the new DeepSeek model locally

You can use the new DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen 8B fully offline and locally by following these easy steps:

  1. Go to https://lmstudio.ai and download the version for your OS (Windows/macOS/Linux).

  2. In LM Studio, go to the search tab and type: “deepseek r1 0528 qwen 8b”.

  3. The Bartowski version with the Q4_0 quantization is suitable for most devices. Once selected, just click Download.

  4. Create a new chat and select the model you've just downloaded.

  5. Start chatting!

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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

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  4. VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.

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  6. Screenloop is the ultimate Talent Operations Platform, seamlessly integrating a next-gen ATS

  7. Postlyy - All in one platform to create, schedule, and analyze content on X and LinkedIn

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