More Free Resources, Nvidia's Cute Little Robot, Claude "Thinking Harder" and ChatGPT Prompts Playground
Nvidia debuts record-breaking servers, Claude gets web access and deep thinking, and OpenAI revamps its playground.
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The Buzz 🐝
During GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced the Blackwell Ultra AI server with 50% better performance, unveiled the Vera Rubin AI server with 3.3x the speed of Blackwell Ultra, and showcased 'Blue,' a humanoid robot developed in collaboration with Disney Research and Google DeepMind.
When asked what he wants to do when he grows up, Blue said the following:
Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet now features web search with real-time citations for up-to-date answers, and also include 'extended thinking' modes like “think harder” for deeper reasoning.
I asked Claude to think harder and it responded with “I already am. You, however…”
OpenAI has rebranded its Chat Playground as the Prompts Playground, offering a redesigned interface to enhance prompt testing, comparison, and iteration.
Data Science & AI
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
METR's analysis reveals that AI models' task completion capabilities have been doubling approximately every seven months over the past six years, with current models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet handling tasks that take humans about 50 minutes. If this trend continues, AI systems could autonomously perform many software tasks requiring days or weeks of human effort within five years.
How Spotify Generated Millions of Content Annotations
Learn how Spotify developed a scalable annotation platform by organizing expert workforces, implementing specialized annotation tools, and establishing robust infrastructure, resulting in a tenfold increase in annotation volume and a threefold boost in annotator productivity.
eBay’s e-Llama: AI Trained on 1 Trillion Tokens, Boosting E-Commerce Accuracy by 25%
Learn how eBay optimized AI to deliver better product matches, faster support, and more accurate pricing
Data Engineering
How HubSpot Optimized Logging to Save Millions
Learn how HubSpot reduced costs by 55.7% and improved query performance by 50x
ZoomInfo Data Platform (ZDP) ingestion process improvement
Discover how ZoomInfo's Data Platform (ZDP) team implemented a new data ingestion process that reduced the time to process 1 million records from 2 hours to 30 minutes, resulting in a 75% improvement in processing efficiency.
Data Analysis and Visualisation
Data Formulator
Data Formulator is an AI-driven visualization tool developed by Microsoft Research that translates high-level analytical intents into rich visual representations by handling complex data transformations behind the scenes.
One year of global plastic waste visualized
Interesting visualisation of plastic waste around the world by Harrison Schell
Meme of the Week - Hiring “Data Scientists”
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