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A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo

March 7, 2025
One goal for an agentic future is for AI agents from different organizations to freely and seamlessly talk to one another. But getting to that point requires interoperability, and these agents may have been built with different LLMs, data frameworks and code. A group of companies, including Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Galileo and Glean, have now created AGNTCY, an open-source collective with the…
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Nvidia’s GTC 2025 will feature AI’s brightest minds and draw 25K attendees in person

March 6, 2025
Nvidia today announced GTC 2025, the world’s premier AI conference, will return March 17 to March 21 to San Jose, California, with an estimated 25,000 in-person attendees and 300,000 virtually. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang‘s keynote is expected to be so popular that it will once again have to be held in a concert venue, SAP Center. It takes place at 10 a.m. Pacific time on March 18. His talk will…
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2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

March 3, 2025
The latest AI large language model (LLMs) releases, such as Claude 3.7 from Anthropic and Grok 3 from xAI, are often performing at PhD levels — at least according to certain benchmarks. This accomplishment marks the next step toward what former Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions: A world where everyone has access to “a great polymath,” an AI capable of drawing on vast bodies of knowledge to…
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Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

February 27, 2025
Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers when building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python,” Freddy Boulton, one of FastRTC’s creators, said in an announcement on X.com. “Until…
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