Who Needs Neural Networks? The Generative Prowess of State Transition Models
Contrary to popular belief, not all generative models for AI require deep learning, neural networks, and the large language models (LLMs) many consider synonymous with Generative AI, if not AI itself....
View ArticleDeep Dive Into DeepSeek-R1: How It Works and What It Can Do
The dust is still settling after the recent release of DeepSeek R-1, a Chinese large language model that purportedly is on par with OpenAI’s o1 LLM for reasoning tasks, but was trained for about $6...
View ArticleAugment Code: An AI Coding Tool for ‘Real’ Development Work
I’ve been working in Visual Studio Code with Copilot running, just for the completions. But I’ve found them to be fairly solid — a bit like a junior dev who has an idea what you might want to write...
View ArticleNew Small AI Model Lets Developers Experiment on iOS
Developers have a new way to experiment with developing AI apps for iOS devices after the release this week of an small open source model from The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and Contextual AI. The...
View ArticleWhat Is an AI Native Developer?
The way things are headed, every software engineer will soon have to become an AI native developer. No, that doesn’t mean that AI will be embedded into your brain. Nor does it mean you’ll have to have...
View ArticleAI Agents: Why Workflows Are the LLM Use Case to Watch
There’s an unsung hero of the modern enterprise: the workflow. It’s sometimes called a rules engine, a process flow, a single-state machine or a software-defined workflow. In a user interface (UI),...
View ArticleTop 10 Vector Database Solutions for Your AI Project
In today’s highly digital world, we generate tons of data daily — over 3.5 quintillion bytes, to be more precise. To make sense of all this data and glean meaningful insights from it, we need a way to...
View ArticleSave Valuable GenAI Tokens With This One Simple Trick
Large Language Model (LLM)-based Generative AI services such as OpenAI or Google Gemini are better at some tasks more so than others, advised Wei-Meng Lee, technologist and founder of Developer...
View ArticleHow AI Agents Are Starting To Automate the Enterprise
So far, 2025 has been the year of AI agents — where generative AI technology is used to automate actions. We’ve seen OpenAI’s Operator debut, demonstrating a prototype agent that can browse the web...
View ArticleEdge Computing Gets Supercharged with Intel’s New SoC
Intel executives are rolling out the additions to the company’s Xeon 6 processor family that hit on everything from the data center to telecommunications environments. Included in the offerings is the...
View ArticleGoogle AI Coding Tool Now Free, With 90x Copilot’s Output
Google has just released a free version of Gemini Code Assist, its AI coding tool that up till now had primarily been available on paid business plans starting at $19 per month. Not only is Google...
View ArticleRevolutionizing Offensive Security: A New Era With Agentic AI
When I look at how the security domain has evolved over the last decade, I can’t help but be incredibly impressed and humbled by all the fantastic work of leveling up security to modern DevOps, CI/CD...
View ArticleLangflow, Cassandra: IBM’s DataStax Buy
The Greek Goddess Cassandra was known for foretelling the future, and now IBM is planning that its namesake open source database system and its associated tools will help its enterprise customers do...
View ArticleAI in Dev Tools: Accelerating, but Learning the Limits
The tech industry is undergoing rapid evolution, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, shifts in global political landscapes, and changes in market dynamics. These forces reshape how...
View ArticleNavigating Supply Chain Risk in AI Chips
Artificial Intelligence presents a significant opportunity for business growth, but rising demand intensifies pressure on already stressed global supply chains. While AI chip manufacturers race to...
View ArticleTop 5 Large Language Models and How To Use Them Effectively
Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on a large corpus of self-supervised textual data, then tuned to human preferences via techniques such as reinforcement learning from human feedback...
View ArticleEdge Wars Heat Up as Arm Aims to Outflank Intel, Qualcomm
Chip designer Arm has a new edge AI platform optimized for the Internet of Things (IoT) that expands the size of AI models that can run on edge devices, includes a powerful new CPU, and enables...
View ArticleThree JavaScript Proposals Advance to Stage 4
The TC39 committee, which oversees JavaScript standards, advanced three JavaScript proposals to Stage 4 at its February meeting. Evolving to stage four means the proposals are ready to become part of...
View ArticleCross-Modal Retrieval: Why It Matters for Multimodal AI
There has been a lot of discussion around multimodal AI recently — how these systems can be built, open source options, small-scale alternatives, as well as tools for addressing fairness and bias in...
View ArticleEvolving From Pre-AI to Agentic AI Apps: A 4-Step Model
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re in an “AI or die!” era right now. Every organization seems desperate to figure out how AI fits into their business strategy. Over the past year, we’ve talked...
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