We're now alpha-testing our V6 models Midjourney. Just type /settings and click V6 or add –v 6 after your prompt. Image coherence and prompt understanding are greatly improved. You can draw text and dolphins and there's new upscalers too. Happy holidays everyone!
GENERATIVE AI
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Mistral AI API Integration with LangChain Now Available
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MistralAI API We’re excited to announce the new langchain_mistralai package today which lets you use Mistral’s new hosted API in LangChain! Mistral’s Open Source models have impressed us along with many others, and we’re excited about making it even easier to get started
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Crypto AI Art Collection: The CryptoPunks of AI Art Era
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[ C R Y P T O A I A R T ] The "Crypto AI Art" Collection could be the "CryptoPunks" of the #AIArt era http://
MONTREAL.AI: Opening the Doors to the #CryptoAIArt Movement Crypto AI Art #601 https://
opensea.io/assets/ethereu
m/0x4f652d9ac6095756574b2254246f121b1042f278/322
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Most Used Evaluation Metrics for AI Model Assessment
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Most used evaluation metrics We see that most people still care primarily about correctness (and not other guardrails like toxicity or prompt injection) https://
docs.smith.langchain.com/evaluation/eva
luator-implementations
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Advanced Retrieval Strategies for AI Systems
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Top Advanced Retrieval Strategies We primarily see people rolling their own retrieval, speaking to need to customize retrieval for each use case. Of general strategies, we see: 1. Self Query https://
python.langchain.com/docs/modules/d
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Top Embedding Providers: OpenAI, HuggingFace, Vertex AI and More
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Top Embedding Providers 1. @OpenAI 2. @huggingface 3. Vertex AI
4. Azure
5. @cohere 6. GPT4All
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Most Popular Vectorstores and Vector Databases 2026
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Most Used Vectorstores Dominated by local vectorstores:
1. @trychroma 2. FAISS
4. @qdrant_engine 5. DocArray Vector-native databases next most popular
3. @pinecone 6. @weaviate_io Other Databases
7. PGVector
8. @supabase 9. @neo4j 10. @Redisinc 11. Azure
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Most Used Open Source LLM Providers Ranked
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Most used OSS LLM providers 1. @huggingface 2. @thefireworksai 3. @OLLAMA 4. LlamaCpp
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Most Used LLM Providers in 2026
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Most used LLM Providers 1. @OpenAI 2. Azure Open AI
3. @AnthropicAI 4. @huggingface 5. Vertex AI
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LangChain State of AI 2023: Real Usage Data Analysis
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LangChain State of AI 2023 What are people building? Which LLMs are they using? Which vectorstores are they using? How are they testing? We turn to anonymized usage stats from LangSmith to answer these questions with real data. Blog: https://
blog.langchain.dev/langchain-stat
e-of-ai-2023/
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