I’ve spent plenty of time building agentic systems. Our platform, Mentornaut, already runs on a multi-agent setup with vector stores, knowledge graphs, and user-memory features, so I thought I had the basics down. Out of curiosity, I checked out the whitepapers from Kaggle’s Agents Intensive, and ...

Everyone talks about LLMs—but today’s AI ecosystem is far bigger than just language models. Behind the scenes, a whole family of specialized architectures is quietly transforming how machines see, plan, act, segment, represent concepts, and even run efficiently on small devices. Each of these ...

Can a 3B model deliver 30B class reasoning by fixing the training recipe instead of scaling parameters? Nanbeige LLM Lab at Boss Zhipin has released Nanbeige4-3B, a 3B parameter small language model family trained with an unusually heavy emphasis on data quality, curriculum scheduling, ...

Deep learning models are based on activation functions that provide non-linearity and enable networks to learn complicated patterns. This article will discuss the Softplus activation function, what it is, and how it can be used in PyTorch. Softplus can be said to be a smooth form of the popular ...

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In this tutorial, we build a fully local, API-free agentic storytelling system using Griptape and a lightweight Hugging Face model. We walk through creating an agent with tool-use abilities, generating a fictional world, designing characters, and orchestrating a multi-stage workflow that produces a ...

Today, we’re bringing you a recipe for the perfect creator summit (yes, you have to read the story part). Recipe serves: A two-day creator event with…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it? Carrier screening  tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children. It initially ...

This week I’ve been thinking about babies. Healthy ones. Perfect ones. As you may have read last week, my colleague Antonio Regalado came face to face with a marketing campaign in the New York subway asking people to “have your best baby.” The company behind that campaign, Nucleus Genomics, says it ...

It’s a scorching October day in Bangkok and I’m wandering through the exhibits at the Thai Space Expo, held in one of the city’s busiest shopping malls, when I do a double take. Amid the flashy space suits and model rockets on display, there’s a plain-looking package of Thai basil chicken. I’m told ...