An absolute WHALE of a month for Open Source AI

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AI/Machine Learning Monthly video newsletter for January 2025. AI/Machine Learning Monthly is a newsletter curated and written by Daniel Bourke published at the start of every month. It covers the latest and greatest (but not always the latest) from the world of machine learning and AI with a focus on open-source. Read the issues online: - AI/ML Monthly January 2025 (this video) — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-machine-learning-monthly-newsletter-january-2025/ - AI/ML Monthly December 2024 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-machine-learning-monthly-newsletter-december-2024/ - AI/ML Monthly November 2024 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-machine-learning-monthly-newsletter-november-2024/ My links: Download Nutrify (my startup) - https://nutrify.app Learn AI/ML (beginner-friendly course) - https://dbourke.link/ZTMMLcourse Learn TensorFlow - https://dbourke.link/ZTMTFcourse Learn PyTorch - https://dbourke.link/ZTMPyTorch Read my novel Charlie Walks - https://www.charliewalks.com Connect elsewhere: Web - https://www.mrdbourke.com ML blog - https://learnml.io ArXiv channel (past streams) - https://dbourke.link/archive-channel Get email updates on my work - https://dbourke.link/newsletter Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - From PDFs to AI-Ready Structured Data - https://explosion.ai/blog/pdfs-nlp-structured-data 1:09 - Docling GitHub - https://github.com/DS4SD/docling 1:44 - Prodigy - https://prodi.gy/ 1:56 - spaCy - https://spacy.io/ 02:02 - Hugging Face Releases Even Smaller VLMs - https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm 03:03 - Small VLM 500M - Instruct WebGPU - https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-WebGPU 04:16 - SigLIP - https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384 04:32 - Hugging Face Open-Source Library for AI Agents - https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents 06:11 - Chip Huyen's Blog Post on Generative AI Pitfalls - https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html 06:32 - LinkedIn Example - https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/generative-ai/musings-on-building-a-generative-ai-product 09:54 - The Importance of a Test Set - https://www.learnml.io/posts/the-importance-of-a-test-set/ 10:09 - Answer.AI Trials Devin - https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html 12:23 - Microsoft Phi-4 - https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4 14:38 - Reader LM v2 - https://huggingface.co/jinaai/ReaderLM-v2 16:09 - Static Embeddings for 400x faster - https://huggingface.co/blog/static-embeddings 17:42 - Mistral Small 3 - https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 20:03 - timm library in Transformers - https://huggingface.co/blog/timm-transformers 20:47 - DeepSeek R1 - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 22:05 - DeepSeek R1 paper 27:15 - DeepSeek Release Janus-Pro-7B 28:24 - Open_r1 by Hugging Face 30:27 - MiniMax open-source MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01 - https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01 32:43 - OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-o-2_6 - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-o-2_6 33:57 - Kokoro - Text to Speech Model - https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M 35:20 - The Qwen Team releases two Qwen 2.5 Updates / Qwen2.5 - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/ 38:33 - Tencent's Hunyuan3D-2 - https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan3D-2 39:30 - IDEA-Research Releases ChatRex - https://github.com/IDEA-Research/ChatRex 41:07 - OpenAI release computer use agent - https://openai.com/index/computer-using-agent/ 41:28 - AI is eating the world talk - https://youtu.be/LGDa3pO23Wc?si=NL5HFZEDYrzNhBIe 41:56 - Evan Zhou's open-source genmoji - https://youtu.be/vOVDyRIS09k?si=9RSBWo94YIBKF0_U 44:20 - Oriel Vinyals on the DeepMind podcast - https://youtu.be/78mEYaztGaw?si=rafLNQ6ajhiuGNhC 42:54 - Jürgen Schmidhuber on the MLST podcast - https://youtu.be/fZYUqICYCAk?si=LLi3Lk0qYFWLorNN 43:33 - Jeffrey Codes on studying AI for a year - https://youtu.be/dk3dQf7yZFI?si=dggPXQSO8_qBczEr