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Article / 2026How to Build a Memory Your AI Agents Can Actually Reuse

Reusable memory for AI agents means keeping notes, sources, and references outside the model so future sessions can use them.

Article / 2026What Did Microsoft's MAI Model Actually Train On?

Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 report matters because it refuses synthetic data and asks what behavior a model really inherited.

Article / 202690% Cheaper GPT APIs

Cheap GPT API proxies can hide model swaps, key logging, and code risks. The small token discount may cost more than it saves.

Article / 2026Loop Engineering Explained

Loop engineering turns repeated agent babysitting into a controlled workflow with goals, checks, tools, and stop conditions.

Article / 2026How Image Generation Actually Works

A plain-English explanation of image generation, how text steers visual models, and why prompts do not directly draw pixels.

Article / 2026Coding Changed Forever

AI coding agents changed how software gets built, but vibe coding breaks quickly without reviews, tests, context, and taste.

Article / 2026How Google Went From AI Joke to OpenAI’s Biggest Problem

A look at how Google moved from being dismissed in AI to becoming one of OpenAI's strongest competitors again.

Article / 2026Your AI Can Improve Itself — Or Fool You

Self-improving AI is becoming practical in small loops, but the same loop can also optimize the wrong thing and fool you.

Article / 2026AI Distillation Explained: The Truth Behind the Biggest AI Controversy Right Now

A practical explanation of AI distillation, the controversy around model outputs, and why ownership is harder than the technique.

Article / 2026How to Control Bias in AI Agents

A practical look at bias in AI agents, from audits and guardrails to the human review loops that still matter.

Article / 2026Harness Engineering: The Missing Layer Behind AI Agents

Harness engineering is the missing layer around agents: tools, evals, traces, guardrails, and controls that make them usable.

Article / 2026Why RAG Is Not Training Your AI

RAG does not train your model. It gives the model temporary context, which changes the answer without changing the weights.

Article / 2026What I Look For When Hiring AI Engineers

What stands out in AI engineering interviews and take-homes: judgment, clear thinking, debugging, and shipping useful systems.

Article / 2026Stop Building Agent Demos

A push to move past agent demos and build systems that can be evaluated, debugged, deployed, and trusted under constraints.

Article / 2026I Published 42 Shorts on AI Terms in 42 days

A 42-day AI terms project that explains why understanding model behavior matters more than collecting prompting tricks.

Article / 2026The 12 Questions That Decide Your AI Architecture

A practical checklist for choosing AI architecture before implementation, so teams avoid agent rewrites caused by bad scoping.

Article / 2026Multi-agent is becoming the new overengineering

A clear distinction between workflows, agents, and multi-agent systems, with the main rule: stay as simple as the problem allows.

Article / 2026How to Clean Up AI-Generated Drafts Without Sounding Like ChatGPT

A practical editing workflow for using LLMs without losing your voice, with checks for slop, repetition, and fake polish.

Article / 2025Why AI Feels Intelligent (and Why That’s Misleading)

Why LLMs feel intelligent, why the comparison to human learning gets messy, and what builders should remember about fluency.

Article / 2025Earn While Helping Others Learn AI

An explanation of the Towards AI Partner Program, where referrals can earn books, courses, full access, or an affiliate tier.

Article / 2025Deep Research Agents: The Next Big Leap Beyond ChatGPT

Deep research agents go beyond chat by browsing, planning, synthesizing, and producing cited reports, but they still need checks.

Article / 2025What actually changed with GPT-5

A practical read on GPT-5: what changed in reasoning, tools, cost, and when the full model beats smaller options.

Article / 20252025: The Year of AI Agents

Why 2025 became the year of AI agents: longer context, cheaper tools, better models, and workflows that can finally act.

Article / 2025LLMs Lie. Here’s How to Keep Them Honest

A practical guide to keeping LLMs honest with grounding, verification, evals, and workflows that do not trust fluency alone.

Article / 2025Prompt Engineering 101 for Business People

A business-friendly introduction to prompt engineering: clear instructions, useful context, examples, and knowing when prompts are not enough.

Article / 2025How to Really Build on Top of LLMs

A practical session on building with LLMs, from prompts and RAG to evals, workflows, and the parts teams usually skip.

Article / 2025MCP: The USB Port for LLM Integrations

MCP acts like a standard connector layer for LLM tools, making integrations easier to share, inspect, and reuse.

Article / 2025Our developer-focused guide to LLMs, free!

A free developer-focused LLM training on how models work, how to use them, and where their current limitations still show up.

Article / 2025How Smart Are Reasoning Models in 2025?

A practical explanation of reasoning models in 2025, why extra thinking time helps, and where the limits still are.

Article / 2025LLM Weaknesses 101: What They Really Learn

A practical explanation of what LLMs really learn, why they fail, and which weaknesses builders need to design around.

Article / 2025Master LLMs in a Weekend

A compact path for learning practical LLM development basics over a weekend, with enough structure to start building.

Article / 2025How LLMs Learn

A beginner-friendly explanation of how LLMs learn from data, prediction, fine-tuning, and feedback without treating them as magic.

Article / 2025Python Fundamentals + CS Concepts

A beginner guide to Python and computer science basics: syntax, variables, inputs, outputs, debugging, and how programs think.

Article / 202514 CEOs Break Down the Challenges in Quantum

Notes from Jensen Huang's GTC quantum panel on why quantum still feels hyped, where QPUs may help, and what has to work first.

Article / 2025An Introduction to Colab and Jupyter for Beginners

A beginner-friendly comparison of Google Colab and Jupyter notebooks, with when to use each for Python and AI work.

Article / 2025Open-Sora 2.0 Explained: Architecture, Training, and Why It Matters

A practical walkthrough of Open-Sora 2.0, its video generation architecture, training approach, and why open video models matter.

Article / 2025Inside ChatGPT: How AI Understands and Generates Language

A beginner-friendly explanation of how ChatGPT turns text into tokens, predicts responses, and generates language that feels coherent.

Article / 2025How FlashMLA Cuts KV Cache Memory to 6.7%

A plain-English look at FlashMLA, DeepSeek's KV cache memory trick, and why efficient attention matters for large models.

Article / 2025OpenAI's NEW Fine-Tuning Method Changes EVERYTHING

A practical explanation of reinforcement fine-tuning, how it differs from supervised fine-tuning, and when rewards help.

Article / 2025The Era of "ChatGPT Programming"

An introduction to programming with ChatGPT support, focused on giving computers clear instructions and understanding the code.

Article / 2025From Zero to LLM Hero: Announcing Our Python Primer for Generative AI

An announcement for a Python primer built to help beginners move from shaky coding basics toward practical generative AI work.

Article / 2025Will AI Take Your Job?

A practical look at how LLMs affect jobs, which tasks are easier to automate, and why adaptation beats panic.

Article / 2025Staying Ahead of AI Developments in 2025

A practical guide to tracking AI in 2025 without chasing every release, by narrowing sources around your work and goals.

Article / 2025The Best 'LLM Developer' Courses in 2025

A practical guide to choosing LLM developer courses in 2025 based on projects, depth, and the skills companies actually need.

Article / 2025LLM Developers vs Software Developers vs ML Engineers: Key Differences

A comparison of LLM developers, software developers, and ML engineers, focused on the skills each role actually needs.

Article / 2025Polish Your Writing With AI

A practical workflow for using ChatGPT or Claude to revise a lesson, add explanations, produce a conclusion, and verify sources.

Article / 2025Agents or Workflows?

A practical way to separate real agents from LLM calls and workflows, so teams choose the right amount of autonomy.

Article / 2025CAG vs RAG: Which One is Right for You?

A practical comparison of CAG and RAG for LLM context, including when cached context helps and when retrieval still wins.

Article / 2025Why LLMs Are the Future of Work

A practical look at how LLMs change work, which tasks they affect first, and which skills help people stay competitive.

Article / 2025Optimize Your Writing Process With AI

How to use LLMs to write better lessons without losing your ideas, judgment, sources, or personal style.

Article / 2025Research With AI Tools

Use Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Ai2 OpenScholar, and RAG to research faster, verify sources, and work with local documents.

Article / 2025Introducing Our 8-Hour Generative AI Primer

An introduction to an 8-hour generative AI primer built to help learners understand models, prompting, and practical use cases.

Article / 2025Best Practices for Building and Deploying Scalable APIs in 2025

A practical API deployment guide for AI engineers who need models, data, and products to talk reliably in production.

Article / 2025Lessons from Minitron

Lessons from Minitron on building smaller language models, where efficiency comes from, and why model size is not the full story.

Article / 2025When NOT to Use Large Language Models

A practical guide to when LLMs are overkill, when simpler models work better, and how to decide before spending the compute.

Article / 2024Optimizing RAG: Should you Fine-Tune?

Optimizing Large Language Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. How do you deploy these models in a way that’s even better?

Article / 2024What Are Vector Databases?

Building AI-Powered Search and Recommendations. As your data grows, you’ll need a database that can scale with it.

Article / 2024Advanced Search Techniques: From Keywords to Graphs

Build a Smarter RAG System. If you need to understand meaning and context, go for embedding search.

Article / 2024How to Improve Your RAG Pipeline with Fine-Tuned Embedding Models

Improve a RAG pipeline with fine-tuned embeddings, better retrieval checks, and a clearer view of when the extra work is worth it.

Article / 2024Long Context Models Explained: Do We Still Need RAG?

A practical comparison of long-context models and RAG across data volume, retrieval quality, latency, cost, and the workflows where each approach fits.

Article / 2024Don’t Fall for the Hype: How to Identify Truly Useful AI

What Makes AI Truly Useful? This way, since it’s built into the tool you already use, you don’t need to be a master prompt engineer or explain technicalities.

Article / 2024How to Effectively Evaluate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems

Evaluate RAG systems with retrieval and answer-quality checks that show whether your pipeline is actually improving.

Article / 2024Indexing Methods for Vector Retrieval

Advanced Vector Indexing Techniques for RAG. As we’ve discussed in our book and course.

Article / 2024Releasing our 90+ lesson practical LLM Developer course!

I am super excited to finally announce that we ( Towards AI ) released our first independent industry-focussed course: From Beginner to Advanced LLM Developer.

Article / 2024Find the Best AI Model for Your Specific Task

No-code Custom LLM Evaluation Demo. You just create your benchmark with questions and answers the LLM should provide.

Article / 2024Building a Multi-Agent System (No-Code)

No-code Agentic AI Demo. They then allow you to deploy the system and create an API out of it, all without any code knowledge.

Article / 2024Top RAG Techniques You Should Know (Wang et al., 2024)

Building the Best RAG Stack: A Breakdown of Wang et al.'s Goldmine Study. Fine-tuning the Generator Lastly.

Article / 2024OpenAI's o1 Model: The Future of Reasoning AI? What Sets It Apart

Unfortunately, as with some of us, this process of thinking before answering makes o1 much, much slower than previous models.

Article / 2024GAIA-Graph, Also Known as GraphRAG, Explained

Learn how GraphRAG adds knowledge graphs to RAG, when that extra complexity helps, and when a simpler retrieval approach is the better choice.

Article / 2024Large Language Models: More Than Autocomplete

Why large language models do more than complete text, and how context, attention, and chain-of-thought prompting change their answers.

Article / 2024Personalized Marketing with AI

The Real AI Tools Revolutionizing Modern Marketing Beyond ChatGPT. We also need to be careful with the data collected from our users and use it ethically.

Article / 2024The Myth of “Advanced Prompts”

So-called advanced prompting techniques are mostly good communication. Here are the few methods that really matter and how to structure an LLM’s output.

Article / 2024Why Is Llama 3.1 So Important?

Eleven essential questions about Llama 3.1 covering performance, cost, infrastructure, tooling, and why it matters to businesses.

Article / 2024How Nvidia trained Nemotron

Training LLMs with Synthetic Data. Okay, so that’s cool and all; we’ve got a way to create better models with little manual data improvement work.

Article / 2024LLM Evals

What, why, when and how…. We then check the actual accuracy in each group: For the predictions the model is 70% confident about.

Article / 2024How to Build a Multimodal LLM like GPT-4o?

A clear look at Chameleon, the multimodal LLM idea behind GPT-4o-style systems, and what changes for text, image, and video models.

Article / 2024The Hidden Dangers of AI in Coding: What You Need to Know

If you are coding with ChatGPT or Copilot, you may be creating some terrible security leaks!

Article / 2024The AI Engineer's toolkit

Our first book: Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG.

Article / 2024How LLMs Know When to Stop Talking?

Understand how LLMs like GPT-4 decide when they have effecrtively answered your question.

Article / 2024Google's Infini-Attention

How Google's Infini-attention combines local attention with compressive memory to process long sequences without recalculating the full history.

Article / 2024Mixture of Experts explained simply

Mixtral MoE Explained. This means that the model tries to predict the next token, or next word, of a sentence you send as the input prompt.

Article / 2024AI in Education: The End of Schools As We Know Them?

AI's Impact on Traditional Education. This technology will change not only how and what we learn but also the skills we need for the future.

Article / 2024How will AI impact Healthcare?

A practical look at where AI already helps healthcare, from medical imaging and monitoring to drug research, plus the privacy, bias, and safety limits.

Article / 2024AI Revolution in Journalism: What It Means for News

Will journalists be replaced by AI? You don’t need much other than ChatGPT or another similar language model like Gemini.

Article / 2024Get Hired in Data Analytics Within 90 Days: Avery Smith's Success Formula

Avery Smith shares a practical route into data analytics: build real projects, learn the tools employers use, and prove you can turn data into decisions.

Article / 2024Tina Huang on AI, Education, Freelancing, and Boosting Personal Productivity

Tina Huang shares practical advice on learning AI, choosing education, building projects, freelancing, and using AI tools without outsourcing judgment.

Article / 2024AI and Art - Redefining Creativity with Mariam Brian

A conversation with Holo Art CEO Mariam Brian about AI as a creative tool, artistic ownership, ethics, and how artists may work with models.

Article / 2024ChatGPT: Understanding Its Power Through RLHF and RLAIF

Understand how RLHF uses human preferences to align language models and how RLAIF automates part of that process with feedback from another AI model.

Article / 2024How is Data Transforming AI

Jerome Pasquero on Data Annotation: The Building Blocks of AI's Future - The What's AI Podcast (episode 27).

Article / 2024AI Unveiled: Ethics, Innovation, and the Human-AI Symbiosis

Jérémy Cohen discusses autonomous vehicles, fragile AI startups, hallucinations, bias, and why transparency and human judgment still matter.

Article / 2024RAG Explained

Retreival augmented generation (RAG) explained simply. If you need safe information from an AI chatbot like a medical assistant, a tutor, a lawyer.

Article / 20232023: The best AI papers - A Review 🚀

Lastly, we witnessed controversy surrounding Google’s demonstration video of the Gemini model and more… In 2022, we witnessed the rise of the mighty ChatGPT.

Article / 2023What's AI Episode 25: Jerry Liu. From RAG Strategies to Gemini's Impact in Tech

It's just a programmatic way of prompt engineering. if we think RAG will get better than that, we could see that as a way of prompt engineering.

Article / 2023How to have a successful AI startups

Lessons on building AI startups, finding useful problems, and avoiding the usual hype traps from Greg Coquillo's founder perspective.

Article / 2023Train, fine-tune, prompt, RAG... What should you do with your LLM?

Tips on what to do with your language model or API. Do you ever question yourself if you should be training from scratch, fine-tuning.

Article / 2023The Future of Video Generation: Deep Dive into Stable Video Diffusion

Stable Video Diffusion Explained. I’m Louis from What’s AI, and let’s explain how this new model works!

Article / 2023Understanding Distil-Whisper: A Closer Look at AI's Role in Audio Transcription

It’s a much more complex problem than processing text as you also need to deal with background noises, different tones or pitch, and, obviously.

Article / 2023AI Expert Ken Jee Discusses Data Science & AI Startups

Data Science, Startups & More with Ken Jee. You need to be passionate about the problem and try to find solutions, whatever it is.

Article / 2023Start with Large Language Models (LLMs) in 2023 - Become an expert for free!

Learn LLMOps now. A complete guide. Free. LLMs are revolutionizing how we interact with technology, from chatbots to advanced data analysis.

Article / 2023Revolutionizing AI Applications: Dmitry Shapiro's Vision for MindStudio

This is an interview with Dmitry Shapiro, previously working at Google and CTO of MySpace Music. Now.

Article / 2023Navigating the AI Landscape: Strategies from Paige Bailey, AI Product Leader

From Microsoft GitHub to Google DeepMind: Paige Bailey. And also you should probably be doing this in the context of an IDE like Android Studio.

Article / 2023I dropped out of my PhD

Dropping out of a PhD for the startup world. Before the Decision… Just to give some context, my journey into the Ph.D. was quite obvious to me.

Article / 2023The Future of AI: 5 Incredible Ways GPT-4 is Shaping Our World

Discover 5 useful Applications of GPT-4 and Llama-2 - No Coding Required! This might not be super useful in the real world.

Article / 2023Meet Our new AI Tutor!

How we Built an Open-Source RAG-based ChatGPT Web App. That’s where the marvel of Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG, comes into play.

Article / 2023DALLE 3 Explained: Improving Image Generation with Better Captions

OpenAI’s BEST text-to-image model to date! Or, we could use another model to understand images and generate better captions first!

Article / 2023Our AI Tutor is live!!!

Last week, we released our LLM course. We are excited to announce another related project: our own AI tutor!

Article / 2023Responsible AI: Insights from an Ethics Expert

The What's AI Podcast Episode 20 with Auxane Boch: Ethics Expert. And you, you check all those boxes to be sure that there is a problem and that your fix.

Article / 2023Mastering Prompts: How to Effectively Communicate with AI Language Models

Exploring the unique behaviors of different Large Language Models (LLMs) and mastering advanced prompting techniques!

Article / 2023Generate music with AI: Stable Audio Explained

New AI That Generates useful Music! This is used to allow the model to understand how long the song generated should be and understand various lengths as well.

Article / 2023Adapting LLMs to do specific tasks!

Boost AI Performance with Fine-Tuning. This means re-training parts of the model on the exact task we want it to achieve.

Article / 2023MVDream: Creating Lifelike 3D Models from Words

MVDream: A new text-to-3d approach (explained)! We do all that to better understand where in the image the NeRF model should focus its attention to produce.

Article / 2023AI Deep Learning Explained

Deep learning with a simple analogy. They are powerful because they will have excellent results if you have the data to teach them what you want.

Article / 2023The First General-Purpose Visual and Language AI: LLaVA

LLaVA: Bridging the Gap Between Visual and Language AI with GPT-4. We train the LLaMA model and the image-to-text conversion.

Article / 2023Fixing AI Hallucinations: The Importance of Explainability in AI (XAI)

An introduction to explainable AI. You are a research scientist aiming to build a model able to classify images.

Article / 2023Mitigating AI Hallucinations: Exploring MetaGPT's Collaborative Framework

What is MetaGPT? LLM Agents Collaborating to Solve Complex Tasks. The goal of MetaGPT is simple: replace each with a fictive human being: a GPT model.

Article / 2023Large Language Models Enter the 3D World!

An overview of the first 3D-LLM. Usually, just to match images to text, you need lots of examples of text-image pairs so that the model can understand both.

Article / 2023StyleGANEX: Enhancing Image Manipulation with Dilated Convolutions

StyleGANEX: Enhancing Image Manipulation with Dilated Convolutions explains how visual AI systems work, where they break.

Article / 2023Leaving Deepmind to start his own Startup! Aleksa Gordić

Aleksa Gordić - The What's AI Podcast Episode 18. Having said that, like videos are obviously so much more data intensive, like processing wise, you.

Article / 2023Google Maps Travel Time Prediction Algorithm & AI Research at Google Deepmind

An interview with Petar Veličković - The What's AI Podcast Episode 17. Could you give some, not practical but applied types of data that this can work with.

Article / 2023Building LLM Apps and the Challenges that come with it: An Interview with Jay Alammar

The What's AI podcast episode 16 with Jay Alammar. Break it down into sentences, embed each sentence, and then you can [00:36:00] create.

Article / 2023Revolutionizing Online Shopping: AI's Virtual Try-On Experience

AI Does magic with UNets, Diffusion, and clothes! It’s also perfectly fine if you are not into podcasts and just want to understand how the TryOnDiffusion.

Article / 2023What is Active Learning in AI?

Active learning explained in 5 minutes. It means we need lots of very good, balanced, and varied data.

Article / 2023Luis Serrano: Exploring LLMs and the Journey of an AI Scientist

What's AI Podcast Episode 15 with Luis Serrano from Cohere. And right now, since they are not perfect.

Article / 2023The Best Image-to-3D AI to date: Neuralangelo

Great, now that you know about Instant NGP, let’s look at the two key differences in improving the results with Neuralangelo working on this specific hash.

Article / 2023From GPT3 to AGI: Insights from Felix Tao, CEO of Mindverse AI

Navigating the Changing Landscape of AI: Felix Tao's Journey from Researcher to CEO.

Article / 2023Image Manipulation with Your Mouse! Drag Your Gan Explained

Move anything from point A to point B! This kind of architecture is a way to train a generative model where you will train a model, called your generator.

Article / 2023What is Explainability AI?

Interview with Yotam Azriel, CTO at TensorLeap - What's AI episode 13. 36:30 Can we do anything to understand the results of the model better when we work.

Article / 2023What is Prompt Injection? "Prompt Hacking" Explained

By now, you all know what prompting is. It’s how we talk with ChatGPT and other AIs.

Article / 2023Copilot, ChatGPT and Copyrights

Something we need to be careful when it comes to plagiarism and arises new questions around the attribution and moral rights of such generated pieces.

Article / 2023Your Dictionary for AI in 2023

Logan Kilpatrick's Definitions for all the words to know for OpenAI, GPT and AI in 2023.

Article / 2023An Interview with OpenAI's Developer Advocate Logan Kilpatrick

Building with LLMs, ChatGPT, and Working at OpenAI With Logan Kilpatrick (Dev Rel @OpenAI) - What's AI episode 11.

Article / 2023Perfusion: Stable Diffusion but more Controllable!

The new Perfusion model by NVIDIA Explained. Oh, and how can we do that without having an immense model that only OpenAI can use?

Article / 2023How AI Enhances Writing & Affects Journalism

Join us for an engaging podcast episode with Limarc Ambalina, the Vice President of Editing at HackerNoon.

Article / 2023Break into AI in 2023: Best Resume & Interview Tips with Brian Burns (AI Pub) - What's AI Podcast Episode 9

Ph.D., Twitter, Breaking into the AI Field, and more with Brian Burns (AI Pub). Not really, you will also most probably need to make money.

Article / 202310x Your Productivity with those AI Tools

These AI Tools will 10x Your Productivity! I’ve used it since we had it for free in my first data science job in 2020 and have used it ever since.

Article / 2023What is a Self-Driving Car Engineer?

Insights to become a self-driving car engineer in 2023. Have you ever wondered what it takes to work in the field of self-driving cars?

Article / 2023Meta's new Segment Anything Model Explained

SAM, promptable segmentation and the largest segmentation dataset to date! This means you can help it segment unknown objects through prompts without.

Article / 2023How to talk with AIs with Learn Prompting's creator

A conversation with Learn Prompting's creator on prompting, AI literacy, and how people can communicate better with models.

Article / 2023Google’s New AI Robot Can See and Understands Language! (PaLM-E)

Since this PaLM model is already super powerful to understand and interact with the world in a textual format, the only thing we need to do is to make it see.

Article / 2023What is a Solution Architect at NVIDIA?

Here’s an interview with Adam Grzywaczewski, a senior deep learning architect at NVIDIA.

Article / 2023How good is GPT-4?

GPT-4 may be the most hyped language model we’ve had, with tons of rumors and news even prior to its announcement, and it wasn’t for nothing.

Article / 2023How to Build a strong Data Science Resume with Kaggle

Use Kaggle projects to make a stronger data science resume, with practical proof of skills instead of generic claims.

Article / 2023Interview with NVIDIA Data Scientist Meriem Bendris & RTX 4080 Giveaway!

In this interview, we'll hear from Meriem Bendris, a senior solution architect at NVIDIA, who will answer questions such as:.

Article / 2023Gen-1, the future of storytelling?

The company behind one of the most popular image generation models you certainly know, Stable Diffusion, is taking it a step further.

Article / 2023Announcing the What's AI Podcast!

Introducing my podcast on AI! We cover what it is like to be a data scientist in such a big and important company and how to get there.

Article / 2023What's it like to work in Generative AI?

An interview with the VP of R&D at a Generative AI company (D-ID). More specifically, we cover three main parts; education, the job interview process.

Article / 2023Generating music with AI!

MusicLM explained. This is how Google Research was able to create a model generating music with such great results from simple text descriptions!

Article / 2023Image Editing from Text Instructions: InstructPix2Pix

This new model called InstructPix2Pix does exactly that; it edits an image following a text-based instruction given by the user.

Article / 2023VALL-E: An AI Generating Voice from Text!

The VALL-E Model explained. For that, we need to translate it into something our model can understand, which is often matrices and numbers, not words or sounds.

Article / 2023An interview with the Director of Perception at Zoox: Ruijie (RJ) He: What is an ML Engineer and more...

An interview with the Director of Perception at Zoox, Ruijie (RJ) He, with the goal of demystifying what is a good profile to get an ML engineer job and.

Article / 2022The 2022 AI Recap - A Review 🚀

A month-by-month review of the AI research and releases that shaped 2022, from image and video generation to language models and 3D systems.

Article / 2022Automatic Re-Aging with AI! Disney’s FRAN Model Explained

Disney's New Model Explained. This is a big deal for the film industry, allowing you to instantly re-age someone for a whole movie with very little cost.

Article / 2022Prompting Explained: How to talk to ChatGPT

What is a prompt engineer and how to improve at it…. While this is also only improving.

Article / 2022What is ChatGPT?

OpenAI's most recent conversational AI explained. The second step is to add our reinforcement learning magic.

Article / 2022From Audio to Talking Heads in Real-Time with AI! RAD-NeRF explained

We’ve heard of deepfakes, we’ve heard of NeRFs, and we’ve seen these kinds of applications allowing you to recreate someone’s face and pretty much make him.

Article / 2022How AI Understands Words

Text Embedding Explained. You’ve certainly heard of the most known and powerful language model: GPT-3.

Article / 2022Galactica: What is it and What Happened?

Galactica, Meta AI's most recent model: The AI Scientist. Tokenization basically means the way the model will see the data instead of words, math.

Article / 2022InfiniteNature-Zero: Fly Into Your Pictures With AI!

Have you ever imagined being able to take a picture and just magically explain it as if it would be a door to another world?

Article / 2022eDiffi explained: New SOTA Image Synthesis model!

NVIDIA's new model has better results, more control and more fidelity than DALLE and Stable Diffusion!

Article / 2022Diffusion models: Everything you need to know

Here's every vision application Diffusion models were a game changer in 2022: image, text, video, 3D, and more!

Article / 2022AI Image Editing from Text! Imagic Explained

If you think the recent image generation models like DALLE or Stable Diffusion are cool, you just won’t believe how incredible this one is.

Article / 20223D Models from Text! DreamFusion Explained

How AI generates 3d models from only text! But then, how can you generate a 3D render from text if the NeRF model only works with images?

Article / 2022OpenAI's Most Recent Model: Whisper (explained)

A good transcription tool that would accurately understand what you say and write it down.

Article / 2022Make-a-video: The AI Film Maker!

Generates videos from text! You need a model that understands the world in a better way and leverages this level of understanding to generate a coherent.

Article / 2022General Video Recognition with AI

What does such a model understand when it sees such a picture or, even more complex, a video?

Article / 2022Guiding Stable Diffusion with your Images

Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion. If you haven’t watched my video yet, you should pause this one.

Article / 2022One of the Most Challenging Tasks for AI

A New Challenging Task for AI: panoptic scene graph generation. Well, you need two things: a dataset and a powerful model.

Article / 2022How Stable Diffusion works? Latent Diffusion Models Explained

A High-Resolution Image Synthesis Architecture: Latent Diffusion. This is why you need hundreds of GPUs to train such a model and why you wait a few minutes.

Article / 2022Build Animatable 3D Models with AI

BANMo tackles a task we call articulated 3D shape reconstruction, which means it works with videos and pictures to model deformable objects.

Article / 2022Produce Amazing Artworks with Text and Sketches!

"Make-A-Scene": a fantastic blend between text and sketch-conditioned image generation.

Article / 2022How OpenAI Reduces risks for DALL·E 2

DALL·E 2 Pre-Training Mitigations. You can see how such a model can become dangerous: allowing anyone to generate anything.

Article / 2022CVPR 2022 Best Paper Honorable Mention: Dual-Shutter Optical Vibration Sensing

They reconstruct sound using cameras and a laser beam on any vibrating surface, allowing them to isolate music instruments, focus on a specific speaker.

Article / 2022What is data-centric AI?

The beginning of data-centric AI with data programming. Unfortunately, the more data you have, the better it is.

Article / 2022No Language Left Behind

Translating 200 languages with a single model - Meta AI. These two models are only used to build the 200 paired-languages datasets we need to train the final.

Article / 2022How does dalle-mini work?

Dalle mini is a free, open-source AI that produces useful images from text inputs. Here's how it works.

Article / 2022Google Brain's Answer to Dalle-e 2: Imagen

An AI that creates photorealistic images from input text better than Dall-e 2! But before using this diffusion model.

Article / 2022How Uber uses AI to serve you better

How can Uber deliver food and always arrive on time or a few minutes before? How do they match riders to drivers so that you can \ always\ find a Uber? All.

Article / 2022Deepmind's new model Gato is amazing!

Gato: A single Transformer to RuLe them all! The first generalist RL agent using transformers!

Article / 2022This is a BIG step for GANs! BlobGAN Explained

A GAN model that uses simple blobs to manipulate objects in images…. Once we have good results.

Article / 2022Meta's new model OPT is GPT-3's closest competitor! (and is open source)

An open-source model that is as powerful as GPT-3! You can say that this new model is very similar to GPT-3 but open-source and better for the environment.

Article / 2022Your Personal Photoshop Expert with AI!

This AI can reconstruct, enhance and edit your images! It will basically find you in the encoded representation of all faces and be re-trained to push the.

Article / 2022An AI that Automatically Summarizes your Documents

A new model for automatically generating summaries using machine learning, released in Google Docs that you can already use!

Article / 2022OpenAI's new model DALL·E 2 is amazing!

a useful new model by OpenAI capable of generating and inpainting images from a text input with incredible results!

Article / 2022NVIDIA Turns Photos into 3D Scenes in Milliseconds | Instant NeRF Explained

Then, after such a training process, you only feed the images with the camera angles at inference time.

Article / 2022Combine Lidar and Cameras for 3D object detection - Waymo

Combine Lidar and regular Cameras for 3D object detection - Waymo & Google Research.

Article / 2022Impressive photo restoration by AI !

This new and completely free AI model can fix most of your old pictures in a split second!

Article / 2022Top 5 AI Articles of February - Hackernoon

HackerNoon is the best place for software developers, blockchain experts, data scientists, and tech people like us to read, write, and publish.

Article / 2022Speech Inpainting with AI !

So you just have to train this model once on a general dataset and then use it with your own audio tracks as it should, ideally.

Article / 2022Create Realistic 3D Renderings with AI !

From a few images to a 3D model using AI! And what if the lighting conditions vary in the pictures taken and the generated model looks different depending on.

Article / 2022AI Facial Editing of Real Videos ! Stitch it in Time Explained

AI Facial Editing of Real Videos! Stitch it in Time Explained explains how visual AI systems work, where they break.

Article / 2022Remove Undesired Objects From Your Images With Artificial Intelligence!

Learn how this algorithm can understand images and automatically remove the undesired object or person and save your future Instagram post!

Article / 2022Top 10 Computer Vision Papers of 2021

The top 10 computer vision papers in 2021 with video demos, articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 20212021: A Year Full of Amazing AI papers - A Review

A month-by-month review of the AI papers that shaped 2021, with short explanations, videos, articles, code, and full references.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 - December 2021

The most interesting December's AI breakthroughs with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021New SOTA Image Captioning: ClipCap

Easily generate text descriptions for images using CLIP and GPT models! We could use such a model to describe movies automatically or create better.

Article / 2021CityNeRF: 3D Modelling at City Scale!

Generate city-scale 3D scenes with high-quality details at any scale! I won’t be covering how NeRF works since I have already done this in an article if you.

Article / 2021Why should you sleep for 8 hours?

"Sleep is not a disposable luxury - it's a non-negotiable biological necessity." -Matthew Walker.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 - November 2021

The most interesting November's AI breakthroughs with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021NVIDIA EditGAN: Image Editing with Full Control From Sketches

Control any feature from quick drafts, and it will only edit what you want keeping the rest of the image the same! SOTA Image Editing from sketches model by.

Article / 2021This AI makes blurry faces look 8 times sharper! SwinIR: Photo Upsampling

Transform your small 512-pixel large images into 4k with AI! Now you only need enough data, and you will have results like this (see the video!).

Article / 2021Text-to-Drawing Synthesis With Artistic Control | CLIPDraw & StyleCLIPDraw

Take a picture of the style you want to copy, enter the text, and the algorithm will generate a new picture out of it!

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 - October 2021

The most interesting October's AI breakthroughs with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021AI Synthesizes Smooth Videos from a Couple of Images!

Let's construct 3D models from a couple of photos…. And thus, should we use this kind of model when humans are involved?

Article / 2021Isolate Voice, Music, and Sound Effects With AI

If we take an audio clip with the music way too loud, you can simply turn up the speech and lower the music!

Article / 2021Biologically-inspired Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars

Biologically-inspired Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars explains how language models behave, fail, improve.

Article / 2021DeepMind uses AI to Predict More Accurate Weather Forecasts

50+ expert meteorologists assessed DeepMind's new model beating current nowcasting methods in 89% of situations for its accuracy and usefulness.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — September 2021

The 3 most interesting AI papers this month with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021Generate Video Variations - No dataset or deep learning required!

This model can do any video manipulation or video generation application you have in mind!

Article / 2021How to Make Slow Motion Videos With AI!

TimeLens turns a few frames into slow-motion video. Here is how the model fills motion gaps and where generated video can break.

Article / 2021Manipulate Real Images With Text - An AI For Creative Artists! StyleCLIP Explained

AI could generate images, then, using a lot of brainpower and trial and error, researchers could control the results following specific styles. Now.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — August 2021

The 3 most interesting AI papers of August 2021 with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021Tesla's Autopilot Explained! Tesla AI Day in 10 Minutes

Andrej Karpathy's talk on Tesla's autopilot explained clearly in under 10 minutes.

Article / 2021Make GANs Training Easier for Everyone : Generate Images Following a Sketch

Control GANs outputs based on the simplest type of knowledge you could provide it: hand-drawn sketches.

Article / 2021Image Synthesis and Editing from Sketches: SDEdit. No more tedious training needed!

Say goodbye to complex GAN and transformer architectures for image generation. This new method can generate new images from any user-based inputs.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — July 2021

The 3 most interesting AI papers of July 2021 with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021How Apple Photos Recognizes People in Private Photos Using Machine Learning

Using multiple machine learning-based algorithms running privately on your device.

Article / 2021OpenAI's New Code Generator: GitHub Copilot (and Codex)

Find out how this AI Generates Code From Words. So if the data is randomly sampled from GitHub, how can you be sure it works and is well-written?

Article / 2021The Only AI Newsletter You Need

There are already many machine learning newsletters, but this one is different and made for you! (contains videos, articles, code, demos…).

Article / 2021⏩ How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply

Understand how AI creates new images using Generative Adversarial Networks in 2 minutes.

Article / 2021⏩ How AI *Understand* Images in Simple Terms

You can see CNNs as compressing the image, focusing on a specific feature of the image at every step.

Article / 2021How Machines Beat Humans at Everything

Discover how machines become super-human in most domains they attack using reinforcement learning.

Article / 2021How AI Helps Spotting Wildfires

AI Spots Wildfires Faster Than Humans. Explained Simply. So, starting with this strong baseline they have.

Article / 2021CVPR 2021 Best Paper Award: GIRAFFE - Controllable Image Generation

Using a modified GAN architecture, they can move objects in the image without affecting the background or the other objects!

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — June 2021

The 3 most interesting AI papers of June 2021 with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021Create Realistic Animated Looping Videos from Pictures

a) Input Image, b) Eulerian field, and c) movement needed in the frames. Holynski, Aleksander, et al., 2021.

Article / 2021How to Read More Research Papers?

A practical guide to reading more AI research papers without getting buried, with habits for choosing, skimming, and revisiting papers.

Article / 2021Translate or Edit Text from Images Emulating the Style: TextStyleBrush

This new Facebook AI model can translate or edit every text in the image in your own language, following the same style!

Article / 2021Barbershop: Try Different Hairstyles and Hair Colors from Pictures (GANs)

This AI can transfer your hair to see how it would look like before committing to the change.

Article / 2021How to Spot a Deep Fake. Breakthrough US Army technology (2021)

How deepfake detection works, why artifacts matter, and what a US Army research project showed about spotting generated faces.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — May 2021

a curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI and Data Science in May 2021 with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article.

Article / 2021High-Resolution Photorealistic Image Translation in Real-Time

Apply any style to your 4K image in real-time using this new machine learning-based approach!

Article / 2021Is AI The Future Of Video Game Design? Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement

This AI can be applied live to the video game and transform every frame to look much more natural.

Article / 2021Articulated 3D Reconstruction from Videos

Generate 3D models of humans or animals moving from only a short video as input.

Article / 2021Realistic Lighting on Different Backgrounds

Properly relight any portrait based on the lighting of the new background you add.

Article / 2021Infinite Nature: Fly into an image and explore the landscape

The next step for view synthesis: Perpetual View Generation, where the goal is to take an image to fly into it and explore the landscape!

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — April 2021

a curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI and Data Science in April 2021 with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article.

Article / 2021What is the state of AI in computer vision?

I will openly share everything about deep nets for vision applications, their successes, and the limitations we have to address.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — March 2021

The 3 most interesting AI papers this month, March 2021, with video demos, short articles, code, and paper reference.

Article / 2021GrabCut NoteBook implementation for Image Matting

A fun introduction project for computer vision and python on Google Colab. iterative-grabcut: Using a simple rectangle and a brush removing the background of.

Article / 2021Create 3D Models from Images! GANverse3D & NVIDIA Omniverse

This promising model called GANverse3D only needs an image to create a 3D figure that can be customized and animated!

Article / 2021An Amputee with an AI-Powered Hand! 🦾

With this AI-powered nerve interface, the amputee can control a neuroprosthetic hand with life-like dexterity and intuitiveness.

Article / 2021How can Transformers be used in Computer Vision?

In less than 5 minutes, you will know how the transformer architecture can be applied to computer vision with a new paper called the Swin Transformer.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — February 2021

Odei Garcia-Garin et al. from the University of Barcelona have developed a deep learning-based algorithm able to detect and quantify floating garbage from.

Article / 2021OpenAI’s DALL·E: Text-to-Image Generation Explained

OpenAI just released the paper explaining how DALL-E works! It is called “Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation”.

Article / 2021The AI Monthly Top 3 — January 2021

What happened in the AI research in January 2021. The 3 most interesting papers!

Article / 2021Third Wave of AI | Thinking Fast and Slow

Drawing inspiration from Human Capabilities Towards a more general and trustworthy AI & 10 Questions for the AI Research Community.

Article / 20212020: A Year Full of Amazing AI Papers - A Review

A curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI in 2020 by release date with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article, and code.

Article / 2020What is it to be a Data Scientist - An Interview

A professional data scientist answers the 12 most asked questions. Clarify and debunks the myths you've built surrounding this field!

Article / 2020Train Your GAN With 1/10th of the Data! NVIDIA ADA Explained

With this new training method developed by NVIDIA, you can train a powerful generative model with one-tenth of the images! Making possible many applications.

Article / 2020Remove any Background Without Green Screens

This new background removal technique can extract a person from a single input image, without the need for a green screen in real-time!

Article / 2020State-of-the-Art Convolutional Neural Networks Explained - DenseNet

Facial recognition, targeted ads, and image recognition all have one thing in common. They are all done using the best Convolutional Neural Networks.

Article / 2020DeOldify: Colorize your Black & White Photos with AI

This method is called DeOldify and works on pretty much any picture. If you don’t believe me, you can even try it yourself for free.

Article / 2020Transfer clothes between photos using AI

This artificial intelligence model transfers clothes between photos using only one picture of yourself and one picture of the clothing! This is called garment.

Article / 2020Toonify: Transform Faces into Disney animated movie Characters

This AI can transform any of your pictures into an accurate representation with a Disney animated movie character style!

Article / 2020Create and Understand DeepFakes in 5 minutes

Understand how deep fakes work and create your own! You should definitely give it a shot if deepfakes interest you!

Article / 2020Can GPT-3 Really Help You and Your Company?

If you have ever wondered either what's GPT-3 and how can it be useful to you or your company, this is the article you were looking for.

Article / 2020What is the YOLO algorithm? Introduction to Real-Time Object Detection

YOLO, Also Known as You Only Look Once is one of the most powerful real-time object detector algorithms. It is called that way because….

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