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.NET Application Porting with Amazon Q Developer AI-Powered Transformation Capabilities

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 10:00:00 GMT

AWS has launched Amazon Q Developer's generative AI capabilities, enabling .NET Framework applications to transition to cross-platform .NET up to four times faster, reducing licensing costs by 40%. With user-friendly automation, developers can modernize code and streamline compliance while leveraging the latest innovations.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Hugging Face Smolagents is a Simple Library to Build LLM-Powered Agents

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Smolagents is a library created at Hugging Face to build agents based on large language models (LLMs). Hugging Faces says its new library aims to be simple and LLM-agnostic. It supports secure "agents that write their actions in code" and is integrated with Hugging Face Hub.

By Sergio De Simone

AWS Introduces S3 Tables Bucket: Is S3 Becoming a Data Lakehouse?

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 05:25:00 GMT

AWS has recently announced S3 Tables Bucket, managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads. According to the cloud provider, the new option delivers up to 3x faster query performance and up to 10x higher transaction rates for Apache Iceberg tables compared to standard S3 storage.

By Renato Losio

NVIDIA Unveils Hymba 1.5B: a Hybrid Approach to Efficient NLP Models

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:55:00 GMT

NVIDIA researchers have unveiled Hymba 1.5B, an open-source language model that combines transformer and state-space model (SSM) architectures to achieve unprecedented efficiency and performance. Designed with NVIDIA’s optimized training pipeline, Hymba addresses the computational and memory limitations of traditional transformers while enhancing the recall capabilities of SSMs.

By Robert Krzaczyński

Improving Threads' iOS Performance at Meta

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:00:00 GMT

An app's performance is key to make users want to use it, say Meta engineers Dave LaMacchia and Jason Patterson. This includes making it lightning-fast, battery-efficient, and reliable across a range of devices and connectivity conditions. In a recent article, they recounted their experience with the Threads app.

By Sergio De Simone

LLaMA-Mesh: NVIDIA’s Breakthrough in Unifying 3D Mesh Generation and Language Models

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:30:00 GMT

NVIDIA researchers have introduced LLaMA-Mesh, a groundbreaking approach that extends large language models (LLMs) to generate and interpret 3D mesh data in a unified, text-based framework. LLaMA-Mesh tokenizes 3D meshes as plain text, enabling the seamless integration of spatial and textual information.

By Robert Krzaczyński

How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:56:00 GMT

InnerSource helped reduce the amount of development work involved when introducing GitOps by sharing company-specific logic, Jemma Hussein Allen said at QCon London. She showed how they went from copy and paste deployments to full GitOps. She mentioned that a psychologically safe environment is really important for open and honest discussions that can help resolve pain points and drive innovation.

By Ben Linders

Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review: Strong Growth for GitHub Copilot and Go Surpasses Node.js

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare has recently published the fifth edition of its Radar Year in Review, a report analyzing data from the global hyperscaler network. The results reveal a 17.2% increase in global internet traffic, with notable growth in mobile and IPv6 requests. Additionally, Go overtook Node.js as the most popular language for automated API requests and GitHub Copilot saw significant growth.

By Renato Losio

Prometheus 3.0 Brings New UI, OpenTelemetry Support and More

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:30:00 GMT

Version 3.0 of the popular open-source monitoring system Prometheus has been released, marking the tool's first major update in seven years. A variety of new features have been added, with improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and streamlining workflows have been made.

By Matt Saunders

DeepThought-8B Leverages LLaMA-3.1 8B to Create a Compact Reasoning Model

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:00:00 GMT

DeepThought-8B is a small "reasoning" model built on LLaMA-3.1 8B that can carry through decision-making processes step by step, similarly to how OpenAI o1 does but in a much smaller package.

By Sergio De Simone

Qwen Team Unveils QwQ-32B-Preview: Advancing AI Reasoning and Analytics

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:45:00 GMT

Qwen Team introduced QwQ-32B-Preview, an experimental research model designed to improve AI reasoning and analytical capabilities. Featuring a 32,768-token context and cutting-edge transformer architecture, it excels in math, programming, and scientific benchmarks like GPQA and MATH-500. Available on Hugging Face, it invites researchers to explore its features and contribute to its development.

By Robert Krzaczyński

InstaDeep Open-Sources Genomics AI Model Nucleotide Transformers

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT

Researchers from InstaDeep and NVIDIA have open-sourced Nucleotide Transformers (NT), a set of foundation models for genomics data. The largest NT model has 2.5 billion parameters and was trained on genetic sequence data from 850 species. It outperforms other state-of-the-art genomics foundation models on several genomics benchmarks.

By Anthony Alford

OpenSilver 3.1 Brings XAML Cross-Platform Designer

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT

The latest version of OpenSilver 3.1, a remake of Microsoft's retired Silverlight web application framework, extends the visual designer launched in July to non-Windows platforms. It also includes support for .NET 9 and some WPF-specific features.

By Edin Kapić

AWS Adds News Amazon Q Developer Agent Capabilities: Doc Generation, Code Reviews, and Unit Tests

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:00:00 GMT

AWS has enhanced its generative AI-powered Amazon Q Developer, streamlining software development with new agent capabilities. Key features include automated documentation, code reviews, and unit test generation, allowing developers to focus on coding. Available in all AWS Regions, Amazon Q Developer simplifies processes in IDEs like Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Pinterest's Use of Honeycomb for Enhanced CI Observability and Build Stability

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:30:00 GMT

Recently, Pinterest’s Mobile Builds team discussed how they utilized Honeycomb, a data observability platform, to enhance the efficiency and stability of its Continuous Integration (CI) processes. The team adopted Honeycomb in 2021 enabling them to monitor build metrics, analyze trends, and address performance bottlenecks.

By Aditya Kulkarni