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Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #46

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Season’s greetings! ❄️⛄Welcome to the final issue of this year’s AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy this week’s handpicked selection of the most intriguing ML developments from around the globe. Have an amazing celebration, and we’ll see you next year after a short winter break. Merry Christmas and Happy 2025! 🎄🎅North AmericaCanada is poised to supply liquefied natural gas to Taiwan to support the region’s semiconductor chip production for AI.
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #39

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you like this week’s selection of the most significant developments in the fields of machine learning and data science. Have an awesome weekend, and see you next Friday!North AmericaThe Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, sues Caseway AI for unauthorized data scraping.
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #43

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of the most interesting ML developments from across the planet. Have a great weekend, and see you next Friday!USA and CanadaAWS re:Invent 2024 is wrapping up in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring multiple product announcements, including RAG systems with Amazon Bedrock that enable the integration of fresh data into AI models post-training.
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #41

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of the most interesting developments in machine learning from around the globe. Have a pleasant weekend, and see you next Friday! 🤖👋North AmericaBrave Search announces a new feature: chat mode for Answer with AI, powered by Leo, offering ongoing conversational assistance.
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #49

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin! We hope you enjoy this week’s curated selection of machine learning and data science news from around the globe, organized chronologically by region. Have a delightful weekend, and we look forward to connecting with you again next Friday!North AmericaHugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M, purportedly the smallest Vision Language Model in the world.
AI Tech: 2024 Review

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Avi Chawla

As we near the end of 2024, it’s time to reflect on how the AI landscape has evolved over the last 12 months. Below, let’s look at the month-by-month highlights of 2024 in AI technology. OpenAI launches ChatGPT Store for custom AI agents: OpenAI introduced the ChatGPT Store, allowing users to create and share custom AI agents built on GPT-4.
Will Long-Context LLMs Make RAG Obsolete?

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Avi Chawla

Consider this:GPT-3.5-turbo had a context window of 4,096 tokens. Later, GPT-4 took that to 8,192 tokens. Claude 2 reached 100,000 tokens. Llama 3.1 → 128,000 tokens. Gemini → 1M+ tokens. We have been making great progress in extending the context window of LLMs.While this raises an obvious question about the relevance of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), researchers remain divided on whether long-context LLMs render RAG obsolete.
Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #40

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello and welcome to the latest issue of the AI Bulletin. We hope you enjoy our selection of the most significant machine learning developments this week, presented in chronological order. Have an amazing weekend, and see you next Friday!North AmericaOpenAI announces the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows. Google releases the Gemini app for iPhone. NASA is partnering with Microsoft to develop Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that will answer scientific questions about the planet.
Talking AI in Ghana and the rest of the globe: An interview with Dr. Paul Azunre

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Alex Hughes

Hello everyone,Today, we continue our segment titled The Insider’s Corner, where we talk to AI experts and industry players from around the globe. Dr. Paul Azunre is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist, ML engineer, and AI entrepreneur with a PhD from MIT. Splitting time between his native Ghana and the US, Dr. Azunre is at the helm of various initiatives and projects across the African continent. He has kindly agreed to talk with us.
Denmark's Gefion: The AI supercomputer that puts society first

Mar 7, 2025 | aiport.substack.com | Daniel Nest

Hi AIport readers,I’m happy to bring you a local story with global implications. It’s a look at Denmark’s new AI supercomputer, Gefion, and how it may serve as a more socially conscious model for investing in AI infrastructure. From the way it’s been funded to the way it’s powered, Gefion challenges how we might measure “returns” on AI investments — is it short-term profits or long-term societal impact? Thanks to Avi and Alex for having me.