Machine Learning at Scale: Why PySpark MLlib Still Wins in 2025
Author(s): Yuval Mehta Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash Machine learning may be glamorous when you’re tuning models on Kaggle datasets or demoing GPT wrappers. But in production? It’s a grind. You’re not just building a model. …
TAI #161: Grok 4’s Benchmark Dominance vs. METR’s Sobering Reality Check on AI for Code
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie It was a very eventful week in AI, with xAI dominating the headlines for both mixed reasons. On one hand, the release of Grok …
Free Cheat Sheet from Our 10-Hour LLM Primer
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. How to Really Build on Top of LLMs Everyone starts with prompts. But if you’ve ever built beyond a toy project, you’ve probably hit this wall: The model sounds fluent, but the …
This 5-Step GenAI Interview Strategy Is Getting People Hired Fast
Author(s): Khushbu Shah Originally published on Towards AI. Most candidates don’t get rejected for weak AI skills, but they get rejected because they can’t design or explain how a GenAI system works in the real world. Most AI candidates don’t get rejected …
Embrace AI, Optimize Later
Author(s): Suyash Damle Originally published on Towards AI. As technologies gain traction, the ecosystem responds and targeted optimization tools emerge. Enabling widespread experimentation, and lowering barriers to entry are more critical for accelerating progress- than achieving peak performance from day one. Recent …
LAI #84: Prompting as a Skill, DINOv2 Embeddings, and Claude vs. OLMo 2
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts, This week’s issue starts at the foundation: prompting. As more teams adopt LLMs, the ability to shape outputs through structured prompting is becoming a core skill, more spreadsheet …
The Broken Mirror: What Generative Models Still Don’t Understand About Symmetry
Author(s): Riccardo Di Sipio Originally published on Towards AI. At TMLS 2025, I attended a talk titled “Generative AI for Retail: Personalization with Diffusion Models.” The speaker opened with a compelling analogy: diffusion models simulate the reversal of a thermodynamic process — …
ChatGPT Corrects Itself Mid-Response — No Prompt, No Retrain
Author(s): Tonisha Nicholls Originally published on Towards AI. A behavioral anomaly was recorded and verified. This is not a theory, it’s a forensic signal. Figure 1 — System Correction Mid-Output The model issues an unsolicited correction in real-time, identifying symbolic misalignment (IQ …
The Harsh Reality of AI Startup Funding: Only 23% Survive the Series A Transition
Author(s): Jitesh Prasad Gurav Originally published on Towards AI. Building an AI startup has never been more challenging. Recent research examining nearly 1,000 generative artificial intelligence companies reveals that only 22.6% successfully transition from seed to Series A funding rounds. This statistic …
TAI #162: The Agentic Era of AI: From IMO Gold to Real-World Work with ChatGPT Agent
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie LLMs crossed the 100‑minute reasoning horizon this week while AI developments also showcased the incredible potential of frontier models, the aggressive competitive race to …
Automating Customer Support with AI: How Smart Bots Are Saving Brands (and Our Sanity)
Author(s): Yuval Mehta Originally published on Towards AI. Photo by Petr Macháček on Unsplash “Please hold. Your call is important to us.” Translation: You’ll be humming this jazz loop until you forget why you called. We’ve all been there stuck in support …
LAI #85: Agents That Work, LLaVA Training, and the $40K RAG Deal
Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. Good morning, AI enthusiasts! Everyone’s excited about agents, until they have to actually build one. This week’s top stories are a perfect reality check. In What’s AI, we break down what agents …
PsychScope: An AI-Powered Microscope for the Mind
Author(s): Kareem Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. Instruments of Understanding — Part 2 of 3 Image generated by Google Gemini The promise of artificial intelligence has always been linked to the promise of a better future. For psychology, this means a …
I Asked an AI if It Was Conscious. The Answer Broke My Reality.
Author(s): Kareem Soliman Originally published on Towards AI. A journey into the heart of the machine that revealed more about consciousness, reality, and ourselves than I ever thought possible. Image generated by Whisk Prologue: A Vision in 2020 Five years ago, long …
Will AI Replace “Your” Job?
Author(s): Sophia Banton Originally published on Towards AI. Created by Sophia Banton in collaboration with Google Whisk. Same desk. Same data. One is uncertain. One is optimized. As AI becomes both doer and thinker, the future of work is quietly being rewritten. …
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