AINews: 18 Mar 2026 MiniMax 2.7: GLM-5 at 1/3 cost SOTA Open Model https://
latent.space/p/ainews-minim
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… congrats MiniMax!
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MiniMax 2.7 Offers SOTA Performance at One Third Cost
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Mastering spaCy: Building Advanced NLP Solutions with Custom Components
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Mastering spaCy — Build structured NLP solutions with custom components & models powered by spacy-llm: http://
amzn.to/3QpPfXi v/ @PacktDataML [2nd edition] 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓷:
Apply transformer models and fine-tune them for specialized NLP tasks
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Sakana AI and MUFG Deploy AI Agent for Banking Lending
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銀行業務にAIエージェントを実装する https://
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… 先日、Sakana AIと三菱UFJ銀行の「AI融資エキスパート」が、実案件での検証フェーズへと舵を切りました。プロジェクトの中心メンバー2名が、インタビュー形式でその技術的背景や取り組みの概要を語りました。 -

Supercharge Your Coding with GitHub Copilot and GenAI Tools
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Supercharged Coding with #GenAI — From vibe coding to best practices using GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and OpenAI: http://
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DeepSeek LLM Guide: Fine-tuning, Distillation, Agents, Prompting
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"DeepSeek in Practice: From basics to fine-tuning, distillation, agent design, and prompt engineering of open source LLM" via @PacktDataML at http://
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New Book: Agentic Patterns for Multi-Agent AI Systems
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New release from @PacktDataML at http://
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SGLang and vLLM Recommended Over llama.cpp for GPU Inference
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llama.cpp is not what you should base your experience on try Sglang and vLLM with GPUs so you can have a proper baseline
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LLMs maximize likelihood via cross-entropy training
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Yes. For one, “Bayesian inference” is not Bayesian. Every (frequentist) n-gram model uses Bayes’ theorem. For another, LLMs have high capacity and are trained to minimize cross-entropy, which is equivalent to maximizing likelihood, so it’s not surprising they produce accurate
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AI generates editable consulting slides from prompts or sketches
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you give it a prompt — or even a hand-drawn sketch or a screenshot — and it produces consulting-grade slides with top-down storylines, MECE logic, editable charts, tables, and Gantt charts.
— AI Breakfast (@AiBreakfast) 19 mars 2026
everything is native PPTX and actually editable, not a broken export. pic.twitter.com/rnLMjM90u1you give it a prompt — or even a hand-drawn sketch or a screenshot — and it produces consulting-grade slides with top-down storylines, MECE logic, editable charts, tables, and Gantt charts. everything is native PPTX and actually editable, not a broken export.
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Unified Memory Issues Solved by vLLM or SGLang on GPUs
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No, it is not a model or a local thing It’s a Unified Memory thing You use vLLM or Sglang with GPUs and you won’t have this problem