This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont.
Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca.
News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce.
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Opinion / Analysis
Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD
Michael Andrews argues this separation is more critical than ever, and that the decades old discussions about this topic “don’t account for the current changes reshaping today’s digital ecosystems (e.g., the development of design systems, structured content, and the shift to composable and headless architectures.)”. Andrews starts a more modern discussion. (21 min)
https://storyneedle.com/separating-content-and-presentation-moving-past-fud/
ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store, Part 2
Andréas Saudemont’s case-study/tutorial is useful for those curious about ScyllaDB, or anyone who has struggled with similar limitations of relational DBs — see his link to (a shorter) Part 1. (18 min)
More Reading
- Good resource… ML and LLM system design: 450 case studies to learn from via Evidently AI
- Llama can now see and run on your device – welcome Llama 3.2 via Hugging Face
- Improving human deception detection using algorithmic feedback. Timing matters unsurprisingly. via CESifo
- The AI Blues – Is AI getting worse? Or are we getting pickier via O’Reilly Radar
Content technology news
Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models
Molmo goes beyond today’s most advanced multimodal models by creating open models that can now point and act in the visual world.
https://molmo.allenai.org/blog
Contentstack adds visual building capabilities to CMS
The composable digital experience platform (DXP) based on the enterprise headless CMS with Visual Builder accelerates workflows for marketers.
https://www.contentstack.com/platforms/visual-building
MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI
Designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer natural language questions for AI applications and agents.
https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-launches-conversational-enterprise-ready-ai-that-shows-you-how-it-thinks
Salesforce to acquire Zoomin
Will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents for more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-zoomin/
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