- Big Data News Weekly
- Posts
- 🚀 xAI releases faster and intelligent Grok 4.1
🚀 xAI releases faster and intelligent Grok 4.1
🦾Plus: 🚀 Jeff Bezos' new Project Prometheus AI startup
Hey folks! Let’s get into Big Data and AI craziness…
In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🎯Top 12 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025
👨💻Build your own ChatGPT from scratch
📚Google Code Wiki to Generate Docs and Visualize Code
🛡️Execute code with Sandboxes for DeepAgents
⚠️ Amodei issues more AI warnings
💾 Luminal raises $5.3M to optimize GPU compilers
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Turn Vibe Coding Into a Strategic Process
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Elon Musk’s xAI just released Grok 4.1, an upgrade to the startup’s top model that claims to take the top spot across a series of rankings and benchmarks, with a focus on creativity and emotional intelligence over pure reasoning power. 4.1 achieves the highest emotional intelligence score among tested systems, optimizing for personality traits like empathy and conversational tone.
Benchmark Your Voice AI
Deepgram surveyed 400 senior leaders on voice AI to map adoption, budgets, and use cases. Compare your voice AI roadmap to $100M+ enterprises and learn where to invest next - human-like agents for customer service, task automation, and order capture - plus benchmarks to guide your 2026 plan.
Her are the 12 strategic technology trends to act as enhancers of digital business and innovation over the next 3 to 5 years, According Gartner. By 2026, generative AI will significantly alter 70% of the design and development effort for new web applications and mobile apps, According to Gartner.
This studio contains the full-stack implementation of a ChatGPT-like language model that can be trained and deployed on a single 8×H100 GPU node. Built on nanochat by Andrej Karpathy, it encompasses the complete LLM pipeline from tokenization through pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, inference, and web serving.
Google just turned code repositories into self-updating Wikipedia pages. Google just launched Code Wiki, a platform that generates interactive docs, visualizes code relationships, and maintains living documentation for entire code repositories. No outdated README files or guessing what that mysterious function does.
LangChain just shipped sandbox integrations for DeepAgents, letting you execute agent-generated code safely in remote environments from Runloop, Daytona, and Modal. This keeps your agent logic local while pushing all execution to configurable remote environments, which means you can spin up multiple agents in parallel, each with its own dependencies, and tear them down when you're done.
Q4 is the perfect window to turn this year’s numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAY’s new guide.
👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
LLM Visualization (Website)
This site looks at how the nano-gpt model, which has 85,000 parameters, sorts a sequence of six letters into alphabetical order.
Loco is a Rust API and web framework for full stack product builders that is strongly inspired by Rails.
MLX (GitHub Repo)
MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon with familiar APIs, composable function transformations, lazy computation, dynamic graph construction, and more.
AI News:
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is reportedly returning from semi-retirement to co-lead Project Prometheus, a new startup developing AI systems for engineering and manufacturing across computing, aerospace, and automotive sectors. The NYT reports the startup has already secured $6.2B in funding, with the move also marking Bezos’ first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021.
Introducing WhatsApp Business Calls in Synthflow
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.
In a recent CBS interview, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI can find cures for diseases and double the human lifespan, but also warned of massive job loss, misuse of the tech, and societal decisions being made by a few major companies. Amodei believes in a “compressed 21st century” that results in 10x the rate of progress, including breakthroughs like cancer cures or Alzheimer’s prevention.
The global rollout brings Google’s AI-powered fare tool to 200+ countries and 60+ languages, offering personalized flight suggestions based on conversational trip prompts and real-time pricing data. Travelers also gain wider access to AI Mode’s Canvas planner, which had been limited to the U.S., Canada, and India. The expansion deepens Google’s push into AI-first travel planning.
Luminal, a Y Combinator-backed startup, raised $5.3M in seed funding led by Felicis Ventures to make GPU computing more efficient. By optimizing how models run on existing hardware, Luminal aims to deliver more compute power without chips, appealing to teams constrained by GPU shortages.
AI Tutorial
How to Turn Vibe Coding Into a Strategic Process
Head to ChatAgency and launch your free trial
In the prompt box, describe your idea or the problem you’re solving, then click ‘Generate’ to create your ‘Idea Home’
Sample Idea: Create a strategy for a new Korean skincare brand called Purity Cosmetics targeting Gen-Z women aged 18-28 who prioritize clean ingredients and sustainability. Create a persona for a 25 year old female marketing manager living in New York. Generate 15+ strategy deliverables. At a minimum, create a vision and at least one persona.”
Once ready, open the ‘Landing Page’ section from the sidebar menu
Choose your target persona from the generated list
Click on ‘Generate Landing Page Instructions’ to get a comprehensive landing page prompt
Paste it into Figma, Base44, Claude, or your platform of choice
Watch your creation come alive with a fully formed, strategy-backed foundation built right in
🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
podcast.ai, a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
Verk- Hire AI employees to add more firepower to your team, who work 24/7 to do sales, be your personal assistant, do graphic designing and more
Codetoflow enables you to understand the code in simple terms using a flowchart which enables you to understand the details
View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs: aitoolsup.com
Have cool resources to share? Submit AI tool
A.I. Generated Image of the Day
👀 Horror Icons Reimagined as Titan Kaiju
Recommended reading:
SPONSOR US
Get your product in front of Big Data & AI enthusiasts
Our newsletter is read by thousands of tech professionals, investors, engineers, managers, and business owners around the world.
Interested in Sponsoring the Big Data News Weekly Newsletter?Get in touch today
What did you think of today's email?Your feedback helps me create better emails for you! |