How Uber Sped Up SQL-based Data Analytics with Presto and Express Queries
Uber uses Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to provide analytics across several data sources, including Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, MySQL, and Apache Kafka. To improve its performance, Uber engineers explored the advantages of dealing with quick queries, a.k.a. express queries, in a specific way and found they could improve both Presto utilization and response times.
LLaVA-CoT Shows How to Achieve Structured, Autonomous Reasoning in Vision Language Models
Chinese researchers fine-tuned Llama-3.2-11B to improve its ability to solve multimodal reasoning problems by going beyond the direct-response or chain-of-thought (coT) approaches to reason step by step in a structured way. Named LLava-CoT, the new model outperforms its base model and proves better than larger models, including Gemini-1.5-pro, GPT-4o-mini, and Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct.
AISuite is a New Open Source Python Library Providing a Unified Cross-LLM API
Recently announced by Andrew Ng, aisuite aims to provide an OpenAI-like API around the most popular large language models (LLMs) currently available to make it easy for developers to try them out and compare results or switch from one LLM to another without having to change their code.
Google AI Agent Jules Aims at Helping Developers With Their GitHub-based Workflows
Part of Gemini 2.0, Google has launched its new AI-based coding assistant in closed preview. Dubbed “Jules”, the assistant aims at helping developers to work with Python and JavaScript issues and pull requests, handle bug fixes, and other related tasks.
Google Willow Sets New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
Google has announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, code-named Willow, which solved a quantum supremacy experiment that would take at least 300 million years to simulate on a classical computer. More importantly, the chip shows how quantum hardware may achieve fault tolerance in such a way to seemingly unleash its scalability.