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Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines

PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h!

How We Rank AI Models: Benchmarks, Ratings, and Real-World Use

A practical guide to how this platform combines benchmark scores, user ratings, and qualitative strengths to help you choose the right model.

When to Choose a Coding Specialist vs. a General-Purpose Model

Codestral, DeepSeek Coder, and similar models excel at code—but when does a specialist beat GPT-4o or Claude? We break it down.

Understanding Context Windows: Why 128K vs. 1M Tokens Matters

Context window size determines how much text a model can “see” at once. Here’s how it affects RAG, codebase work, and long documents.

Open-Weights vs. Proprietary: Tradeoffs for Developers

Models like Llama 3.1 405B are open-weights; GPT-4o and Claude are proprietary. Here’s how to think about the tradeoffs.

What MMLU, HumanEval, and GSM8K Actually Measure

A quick guide to the benchmarks we use: what they test, how they’re run, and what to take away when comparing models.

A conversation with Kevin Scott: What’s next in AI

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From Hot Wheels to handling content: How brands are using Microsoft AI to be more productive and imaginative

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Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit

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Best Practices for Building the AI Development Platform in Government

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for its AI development platform efforts, according to Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist at the US Army AI Integration Center, speaking at the AI World Gov

Advance Trustworthy AI and ML, and Identify Best Practices for Scaling AI

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE), and identifying best practices for implementing AI at scale is a priority for the US General Services Administration (GSA). That’s what atte

Promise and Perils of Using AI for Hiring: Guard Against Data Bias

By AI Trends Staff While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a risk of wide discrimination if not implemented carefully. That was the message from Keith Sonderling, Commissioner with the US Equal Opportunity Commisio