An absolute WHALE of a month for Open Source AI

AI/Machine Learning Monthly video newsletter for January 2025.

AI/Machine Learning Monthly is a newsletter curated and written by Daniel Bourke 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 January 2025 (this video) — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly December 2024 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly November 2024 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...

My links:
Download Nutrify (my startup) - https://nutrify.app
Learn AI/ML (beginner-friendly course) - https://dbourke.link/ZTMMLcourse
Learn TensorFlow - https://dbourke.link/ZTMTFcourse
Learn PyTorch - https://dbourke.link/ZTMPyTorch
Read my novel Charlie Walks - https://www.charliewalks.com

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - From PDFs to AI-Ready Structured Data - https://explosion.ai/blog/pdfs-nlp-st...
1:09 - Docling GitHub - https://github.com/DS4SD/docling
1:44 - Prodigy - https://prodi.gy/
1:56 - spaCy - https://spacy.io/
02:02 - Hugging Face Releases Even Smaller VLMs - https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
03:03 - Small VLM 500M - Instruct WebGPU - https://huggingface.co/spaces/Hugging...
04:16 - SigLIP - https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-...
04:32 - Hugging Face Open-Source Library for AI Agents - https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents
06:11 - Chip Huyen's Blog Post on Generative AI Pitfalls - https://huyenchip.com/2025/01/16/ai-e...
06:32 - LinkedIn Example -   / musings-on-building-a-generative-ai-product  
09:54 - The Importance of a Test Set - https://www.learnml.io/posts/the-impo...
10:09 - Answer.AI Trials Devin - https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-0...
12:23 - Microsoft Phi-4 - https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4
14:38 - Reader LM v2 - https://huggingface.co/jinaai/ReaderL...
16:09 - Static Embeddings for 400x faster - https://huggingface.co/blog/static-em...
17:42 - Mistral Small 3 - https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mist...
20:03 - timm library in Transformers - https://huggingface.co/blog/timm-tran...
20:47 - DeepSeek R1 - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De...
22:05 - DeepSeek R1 paper
27:15 - DeepSeek Release Janus-Pro-7B
28:24 - Open_r1 by Hugging Face
30:27 - MiniMax open-source MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01 - https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mini...
32:43 - OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-o-2_6 - https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCP...
33:57 - Kokoro - Text to Speech Model - https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro...
35:20 - The Qwen Team releases two Qwen 2.5 Updates / Qwen2.5 - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/
38:33 - Tencent's Hunyuan3D-2 - https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyua...
39:30 - IDEA-Research Releases ChatRex - https://github.com/IDEA-Research/ChatRex
41:07 - OpenAI release computer use agent - https://openai.com/index/computer-usi...
41:28 - AI is eating the world talk -    • Benedict Evans: AI Eats the World | Slush ...  
41:56 - Evan Zhou's open-source genmoji -    • I remade Apple Genmoji in ONE DAY  
44:20 - Oriel Vinyals on the DeepMind podcast -    • Gemini 2.0 and the evolution of agentic AI...  
42:54 - Jürgen Schmidhuber on the MLST podcast -    • SCHMIDHUBER: HOW WE WILL LIVE WITH AIs  
43:33 - Jeffrey Codes on studying AI for a year -    • one year of studying (it was a mistake)