What does it take to build a Realistic RAG in 2025? | AI & ML Monthly

Welcome to machine learning & AI monthly for March 2025.

This is the video version of the newsletter I write every month which covers the latest and greatest (but not always the latest) in the world of AI and ML.

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

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Machine Learning and AI Monthly - https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
00:33 - Project Update: Trashify Object Detection Model - https://www.learnhuggingface.com/note...
01:14 - Insights from Hamel Husain's AI Product Guide - https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/field-gu...
05:01 - Airbnb's Embedding-Based Search and LLM Test Migration -   / embedding-based-retrieval-for-airbnb-search  
09:09 - Building with Local LLMs: Alex Strick's Experience - https://mlops.systems/posts/2025-03-1...
14:59 - Emerging Patterns in GenAI Products by Martin Fowler - https://martinfowler.com/articles/gen...
20:13 - LLM Benchmarks, Evals and Tests - https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights...
23:42 - Neural Magic: Faster VLM Models Through Quantization - https://neuralmagic.com/blog/4x-faste...
27:26 - olmOCR: 7B Model Focused on OCR - https://olmocr.allenai.org/
33:39 - Teapot LLM: Small Model for Low-Resource Devices - https://huggingface.co/teapotai/teapo...
34:01 - MoshiVis: Speech-Vision Model - https://huggingface.co/kyutai/moshika...
36:28 - DeepSeek-V3-0324 Base Model - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De...
37:55 - Mistral-Small-3.1: 24B Parameter Model with Vision - https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small...
39:24 - Qwen2.5-VL-32B and Qwen2.5-Omni - https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...
40:50 - SmolDocling-256M: Information Extraction from Documents - https://huggingface.co/ds4sd/SmolDocl...
44:00 - RF-DETR: Apache 2.0 Real-Time Object Detection Model - https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr
47:05 - Google's Gemma 3: Open-Source Series of VLMs - https://blog.google/technology/develo...
51:20 - NVIDIA's Canary 1B Flash and Canary 180M Flash: Fast ASR - https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/...
53:29 - Starvector: Model for Generating SVG Code - https://huggingface.co/starvector/sta...
54:54 - SpatialLM: LLM for 3D Point Cloud Data - https://manycore-research.github.io/S...
57:15 - Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.0 Native Image Output - https://blog.google/technology/google...
01:01:21 - OpenAI's Upcoming Open-Weight Language Model - https://openai.com/open-model-feedback/