AI, ML, & Data Engineering Round-Up

A Collection of Top Software Engineering Culture News, Articles, Presentations and Podcasts September 2024 [InfoQ] AI, ML, & Data Engineering Round-Up Sponsored by [Harness] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations), [Top Articles & Podcasts](#top-articles-and-podcasts) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to AI, ML, & Data Engineering on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [Spanner Graph: Google Introduces Graph Database on Spanner]( (news, Aug 24, 2024) [Meta's Research SuperCluster for Real-Time Voice Translation AI Systems]( (news, Aug 21, 2024) [MariaDB Introduces Open-Source Vector Preview, Aiming to Become Default MySQL Option]( (news, Aug 17, 2024) [Amazon MemoryDB Provides Fastest Vector Search on AWS]( (news, Aug 11, 2024) [8 Deployment Pattern Structures to Transform your CI/CD]( Good deployment patterns mean fast and repeatable pipelines. Great deployment patterns mean fast, repeatable and safe pipelines. Download the ebook to learn what deployment patterns are and why you need them, top considerations to choose the right patterns for your organization, and more. [Download Now](. Sponsored content [8 Deployment Pattern Structures to Transform your CI/CD - Sponsored by Harness]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [University Researchers Create New Type of Interpretable Neural Network]( (news, Aug 20, 2024) [Redis Improves Performance of Vector Semantic Search with Multi-Threaded Query Engine]( (news, Jul 19, 2024) [Mistral AI Releases Three Open-Weight Language Models]( (news, Aug 06, 2024) [Google Introduces Free Trial for AlloyDB PostgreSQL Database]( (news, Jul 30, 2024) [] Top News [NVIDIA NIM Now Available on Hugging Face with Inference-as-a-Service]( Hugging Face has announced the launch of an inference-as-a-service capability powered by NVIDIA NIM. This new service will provide developers easy access to NVIDIA-accelerated inference for popular AI models. [Meta Releases Llama 3.1 405B, Largest Open-Source Model to Date]( Meta recently unveiled its latest language model, Llama 3.1 405B. This AI model is the largest of the new Llama models, which also include 8B and 70B versions. With 405 billion parameters, 15 trillion tokens, and 16,000 GPUs, Llama 3.1 405B offers a range of impressive features. [OpenAI Releases GPT-4o mini Model with Improved Jailbreak Resistance]( OpenAI released GPT-4o mini, a smaller version of their flagship GPT-4o model. GPT-4o mini outperforms GPT-3.5 Turbo on several LLM benchmarks and is OpenAI's first model trained with an instruction hierarchy method that improves the model's resistance to jailbreaks and system prompt extraction. [[eBook] The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem]( Kubernetes (K8s) has become the de facto standard platform for container orchestration and market adoption is strong. In this eBook you will learn about the K8s architecture, options for running K8s across a host of environments, key open source projects in the K8s ecosystem, and more. [Download Now](. Sponsored content [[eBook] The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem - Sponsored by Harness]( [Google's JEST Algorithm Automates AI Training Dataset Curation and Reduces Training Compute]( Google DeepMind recently published a new algorithm for curating AI training datasets: multimodal contrastive learning with joint example selection (JEST), which uses a pre-trained model to score the learnability of batches of data. Google's experiments show that image-text models trained with JEST-curated data require 10x less computation than baseline methods. [AWS Introduces Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to Streamline ML Workflows]( AWS announced that Amazon SageMaker Studio now includes Amazon Q Developer as a new capability. This generative AI-powered assistant is built natively into SageMaker’s JupyterLab experience and provides recommendations for the best tools for each task, step-by-step guidance, code generation, and troubleshooting assistance. [] Top Presentations [Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi]( The presenters discuss an introduction to incremental data processing, contrasting it with the two prevalent processing models of today - batch and stream data processing. [presentations]( [Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database]( James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID, is just not worth it. [James Munro]( [Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io]( Jeremy Saenz discusses NATS, an open-source project for services communication, and how to leverage NATS to streamline communication and fleet management for devices at the edge. [Jeremy Saenz]( [] Top Articles & Podcasts [Simplicity, Speed, and Re-Use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months]( In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year. [articles]( [AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report 2024]( In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will be discussing the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering. [podcast]( [Justin Sheehy on Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype]( At the recent InfoQ Dev Summit Boston, Justin Sheehy of Akamai delivered an insightful keynote on being a responsible developer in the age of AI. This special podcast episode is Sheehy’s full talk. [podcast]( [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( You have received this message because you are subscribed to the “Special Reports Newsletter”. To stop receiving this email, please click the following link: [Unsubscribe]( C4Media Inc. 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