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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

The technique caught widespread attention after Chinas DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. As he notes, the analysis can be helpful to him as a journalist and content curator to identify potential sources online. The notes are here. What surprises you?

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The Open Source “Agentic Reasoning” Beats Google Gemini Deep Research

Medium Technology Section

A deep dive into the “Agentic Reasoning” framework & the techniques behind it that make it outperform the most advanced reasoning LLMs… Continue reading on Level Up Coding

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Oslo-based Unleash nabs $14M Series A to build open source feature management tool

TechCrunch

So they often will roll it out slowly and see what happens using a technique of placing feature flags in the code. He released Unleash as open source on GitHub the following year and nurtured the project for the next several years as he continued working at his day job as an engineer.

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The Flan Collection: Advancing open source methods for instruction tuning

Google Research AI blog

Analysis suggests the improvements stem both from the larger and more diverse set of tasks and from applying a set of simple training and data augmentation techniques that are cheap and easy to implement: mixing zero-shot, few-shot, and chain of thought prompts at training, enriching tasks with input inversion, and balancing task mixtures.

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Responsive Mapping Techniques And Mobile Geolocation

NTEN

Data Infrastructure Integration & APIs Mobile mobile advocacy mobile mapping mobile optimization mobile program delivery nonprofit technology nptech Open Source Strategy Web Sites Communications IT Staff'

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.