Open-source AI models are surpassing closed source (fast) | AI/ML Monthly

AI/Machine Learning Monthly video newsletter for February 2025.

AI/Machine Learning Monthly is a newsletter curated and written by Daniel Bourke and published at the start of every month. It covers the latest and greatest (but not always the latest) from the world of machine learning and AI with a focus on open-source.

Read the issues online:
AI/ML Monthly February 2025 (this video) — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly January 2025 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly December 2024 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...

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Timestamps:
My work
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - A Guide to Bounding Box Formats and How to Draw Them - https://www.learnml.io/posts/a-guide-...
01:55 - [Coming Soon] Project: Build a custom object detection model with Hugging Face Transformers - https://www.learnhuggingface.com/note...
3:38 - ML Model Memory Calculator - https://huggingface.co/spaces/mrdbour...
4:22 - Embedding machine learning blog post - https://zerotomastery.io/blog/embedde...
4:39 - Video version of ML Monthly January 2025 -    • An absolute WHALE of a month for Open Sour...  

From the Internet: Daniel's open-source AI resources of the month
4:49 - Segment Anything with text using Sa2VA - https://lxtgh.github.io/project/sa2va/
9:15 - Google Release SigLIP2 - https://huggingface.co/blog/siglip2
12:08 - Ovis2 lands in 6 different variants - https://huggingface.co/collections/AI...
14:34 - Microsoft launch Phi-4-Multimodal and Phi-4-mini - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blo...
19:01 - Opencompass OpenVLM leaderboard - https://huggingface.co/spaces/opencom...
20:46 - Hugging Face introduce SmolVLM2 - https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2
23:59 - IBM Release Granite 3.2 models under Apache 2.0 - https://www.ibm.com/granite/docs/
26:51 - Arc Institute release Evo2, a language model trained on 9.3 trillion DNA nucleotides - https://arcinstitute.org/news/blog/evo2
29:39 - Hugging Face release Open Deep Research - https://huggingface.co/blog/open-deep...
33:05 - Hugging Face release an open-source AI Agents course - https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-c...
34:30 - Zyphra realease Zonos-v0.1, an Apache 2.0 Text-to-Speech Model - https://www.zyphra.com/post/beta-rele...
36:53 - Ai2 Release OLMoE for iOS, a free-to-use on-device LLM - https://allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app
38:38 - Locaal-ai is an organization creating a collection of open-source AI services - https://github.com/locaal-ai
39:54 - OpenRLHF is an open-source RLHF framework - https://github.com/openrlhf/openrlhf

Case studies
41:10 - Finegrain share how they built Promptable High-Resolution Image Segmentation - https://blog.finegrain.ai/posts/promp...
43:30 - The makers of the Zed code editor share how they created Zeta - https://zed.dev/
45:46 - LMStudio introduces speculative decoding for faster local LLM inference - https://lmstudio.ai/blog/lmstudio-v0....

Releases
48:40 - Google upgrades the Gemini and Imagen suite of models - https://developers.googleblog.com/en/...
50:20 - Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude...
50:53 - X.ai introduce Grok 3 - https://x.ai/blog/grok-3
51:25 - OpenAI release GPT-4.5 - https://openai.com/index/introducing-...
52:35 - Ai2 release Scholar QA - https://allenai.org/blog/ai2-scholarqa