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🦾Plus: 🤝 OpenAI signs $1B deal with Cerebras

January 15, 2026

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

  • 🧰Top 50 Big Data Analytics Tools you should know in 2025

  • 🩺Google releases MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR

  • 🔁 Replacing DAG Workflows With AI Backends

  • 🤖OpenCode unveils fully open coding agent for terminal

  • 🚀 Kaggle launches community-driven AI benchmarks

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:Never lose vibe coding progress again with Git

  • 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

Model choice matters for extremely long-running tasks. GPT-5.2 models perform better at extended autonomous work compared to Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1-codex. Many improvements come from removing complexity rather than adding it. The best system is often simpler than you'd expect. The harness and models matter, but the prompts matter more.

Better prompts. Better AI output.

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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.

Medical data spans scans, reports, and dictation, but most models still focus on single images or plain text. The key update is a 4B multimodal model that runs offline and supports 3D CT and MRI volumes. The core problem is mismatch between real clinical data and model inputs. MedGemma 1.5 addresses this by extending a medical foundation model to high-dimensional imaging while keeping compute requirements low.

AI has outgrown frameworks and is moving from chatbots into backends—making decisions about refunds, coordinating supply chains, managing portfolios. These agents need infrastructure, not prompt wrappers. AgentField is an open-source control plane that treats AI agents as first-class backend services and makes agents production-ready.

OpenCode starts from a familiar frustration: AI coding tools feel powerful, but each one locks you into a specific editor, workflow, or model provider. Teams juggle terminals, IDE plugins, desktop apps, and multiple subscriptions, while context and tooling fragment across tools. OpenCode approaches this problem from the agent layer, not the model layer.

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👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Spock (GitHub Repo)

The Spock extension provides multi-master replications for PostgreSQL versions 15 and later.

It contains 4,343 production-ready JSON workflows for the n8n automation platform, includes 365 distinct service integrations and spans 15 categories. You search, filter by trigger types, and download clean JSONs for immediate use.

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AI News:

OpenAI has signed a $1B agreement with Cerebras, the AI chip startup, to supply compute infrastructure for the company's growing model training and inference demands. The partnership marks a significant shift in OpenAI's compute strategy, as the company looks to diversify its hardware suppliers beyond its longstanding reliance on NVIDIA chips to meet its expanding infrastructure needs.

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Kaggle has introduced Community Benchmarks, a feature that lets developers design, run, and share custom evaluations that better reflect how modern AI models behave in real-world tasks. Instead of relying on static accuracy scores, the system allows users to test reasoning, code generation, tool use, and multi-step interactions, then compare leading models on shared leaderboards.

Washington just approved Nvidia’s H200 chips for export to China, reversing earlier restrictions. The catch: Trump’s 25% fee on sales, plus buyers need to prove they won’t use the chips for military purposes. Nvidia’s top-tier Blackwell chips remain blocked.

Google just launched Personal Intelligence, a new beta feature that lets Gemini reason across apps like Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search data to deliver more personalized responses without users needing to specify which app to pull from. Personal Intelligence connects Google’s app suite to Gemini, letting the assistant understand, locate, and proactively use personalized details.

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI just released GLM-Image, an open-source image generator hailed as the first major model trained entirely on Huawei hardware — though early testing has not been positive despite strong benchmark scores.

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AI Tutorial

💾 Never lose vibe coding progress again with Git

In this tutorial, you will learn how to save your vibe coding progress with Git so you never lose your work again — covering eight practical git commands and writing your first git commit.

Step-by-step:

  1. Install git from git-scm.com and verify with git --version in terminal, then open a coding project in your IDE and start a terminal instance in that folder

  2. Use git init to initialize git tracking, then git add . to snapshot all files (or git add [filename].[extension] for individual files)

  3. Save your snapshot with git commit -m 'first commit!' and view all commits with git log

  4. For new features, create a branch with git checkout -b feature-[name], then merge changes to main with git merge [branch name] 

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