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Efficient MultiModal Data Pipeline
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Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Announcing NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition: Early Training Evaluation of Language Models
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LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)
A topic-organized collection of 200+ LLM research papers from 2025
No-code personal agents, powered by GPT-4.1 and Realtime API
Learn how Genspark built a $36M ARR AI product in 45 days—with no-code agents powered by GPT-4.1 and OpenAI Realtime API.
AI data processing: Driving scalability and transparency | Redpanda
Discover how AI streamlines data processing by automating tasks, uncovering insights, and enabling smarter, faster decision-making for businesses.
Training and Finetuning Sparse Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
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AI in Australia—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint
Today, OpenAI, in partnership with Mandala Partners, is sharing the OpenAI AI Economic Blueprint for Australia. At a time when boosting productivity has emerged as a national priority for Australia, the Blueprint provides a clear, actionable plan for how Australia can unlock the full economic and so...
Discord Update: June 30, 2025 Changelog
Here's the Discord Changelog from June 30, 2025, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
Welcome the NVIDIA Llama Nemotron Nano VLM to Hugging Face Hub
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Authenticity Matters: Discord's Pride Month 2025
This June, our PRIDE ERG came together to celebrate the meaningful act of simply being who you are and bringing your whole self to work.
Customizable, no-code voice agent automation with GPT-4o
Retell AI is transforming the call center with AI voice automation powered by GPT-4o and GPT-4.1. Its no-code platform enables businesses to launch natural, real-time voice agents that cut call costs, boost CSAT, and automate customer conversations—without scripts or hold times.
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of content...
Gemma 3n fully available in the open-source ecosystem!
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Staff Picks, June 2025: Summer of Showcases
23 game showcases in June, and just as many recommendations! We’re talking about all the big announcements and big summer vibes with Alex, Armando, Matt, and… Matt???
Why streaming is the backbone for AI-native data platforms
To power AI at scale, organizations must adapt to the evolving role of the modern data warehouse. Here’s what you need to keep up in a rapidly evolving industry.
Driving scalable growth with OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA
Unify, an AI-powered GTM platform, uses OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA to automate prospecting, research, and outreach. With hyper-personalized messaging and an always-on workflow, Unify helps teams generate pipeline at scale while focusing on high-impact customer interactions.
Transformers backend integration in SGLang
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Measuring Commercial Impact at Scale at Canva
How We Built Canva's IMPACT App with Streamlit in Snowflake
How to Set Up Your Server’s Roles for Members, Mods & Admins
There’s a LOT of Role permissions to comb through for your Discord server, and every community has its own needs. In this article, we’ll give some general guidance on each permission to help you decide what works best.
Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
I’m Chris McCord, the creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework. For the past several months, I’ve been working on a skunkworks project at Fly.io, and it’s time to show it off. I wanted LLM agents to work just as well with Elixir as they do with Python and JavaScript. Last December, in order to figure o...
Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud’s response to the GCP outage
On June 12, GCP went down. Here’s how we responded at Redpanda Cloud and what it taught us about safety and reliability.
(LoRA) Fine-Tuning FLUX.1-dev on Consumer Hardware
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Preparing for future AI risks in biology
Advanced AI can transform biology and medicine—but also raises biosecurity risks. We’re proactively assessing capabilities and implementing safeguards to prevent misuse.
Toward understanding and preventing misalignment generalization
We study how training on incorrect responses can cause broader misalignment in language models and identify an internal feature driving this behavior—one that can be reversed with minimal fine-tuning.