Archive - Towards AI Newsletter

TAI #154: Gemini Deep Think, Veo 3's Audio Breakthrough, & Claude 4's Blackmail Drama

Also, Jules coding agent, Mistral's Devstral, Gemini Diffusion, Llama Nemotron Nano 4B & more!

May 27 •

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The New Minimum for LLM Developers Just Changed. So Did the Course That Teaches It.

Seven months ago, we launched From Beginner to LLM Developer — a full-stack, no-fluff course to help engineers build real-world LLM applications from…

May 22 •

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TAI #153: AlphaEvolve & Codex - AI Breakthroughs in Algorithm Discovery & Software Engineering

Also, VS Code moves to open-source AI, MiniMax voice, Qwen Parallel Scaling & more.

May 20 •

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Our "Zero-to-LLM Engineer" bundle is out!

Skip the Rabbit Holes—Follow the Proven LLM Track

May 19 •

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Master the LLM Stack in 60+ hours — learn, code, ship, and certify

From “I can prompt” to “I can deploy”

May 14 •

TAI #152: AI Passes Physician-Level Responses in OpenAI's HealthBench

Also, Qwen 3 Quantized, NVIDIA's Open Code Models, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview update

May 13 •

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Louis-François Bouchard

June Cohort Now Open: Join 1,000+ Developers

Build AI apps that get you hired, promoted, and paid

May 7 •

TAI #151: ChatGPT's Sycophancy Saga & OpenAI's Nonprofit Reversal

Also, Phi-4 Reasoning Models, Meta AI app, Llama API, and more!

May 6 •

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Louis-François Bouchard

How Towards AI Helps Transform Enterprise Teams into “AI-First” Employees

GenAI Acceleration Programs, Live AI Bootcamps, LLM Development Consulting

May 1 •

April 2025

#150: Qwen3 Impresses as a Robust Open-Source Contender

Also, Gemini up to 350m monthly users, OpenAI's "yes-man" 4o hiccup, AI reddit persuasion & more!

Apr 29 •

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#149: OpenAI's Agentic o3; New Open Weights Inference Optimized Models (DeepMind Gemma, Nvidia Nemotron-H)

Also, Grok-3 Mini Shakes Up Cost Efficiency, Codex, Cohere Embed 4, PerceptionLM & more.

Apr 22 •

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#148: New API Models from OpenAI (4.1) & xAI (grok-3); Exploring Deep Research's Scaling Laws

Also, ChatGPT memory, Google A2A, Browsecomp, DeepCoder-14B, and more!

Apr 15 •

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Louis-François Bouchard

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