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RELEASES
🧨 Golden Kitty Awards are Open
🧨 Huggingface’s new partnership
🧨 January Model Trends

NEWSROOM
🗞️ Fundraising for Databricks and Anthropic
🗞️ OpenAI Blog, A Quiet Segway into AI Driven News
🗞️ Tokens per Watt per Dollar - a new GDP Strategy

BUILDER BYTES
⭐️ NVIDIA NV-Ingest: Scalable Data Ingestion Framework
⭐️ How to Train Vision Transformers Effectively
⭐️ Hugging Face Journal Club - DeepSeek R1

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🤩 Building a fully local "deep researcher" with DeepSeek-R1
🤩 DeepLearning AI (free course) - Computer work with Anthropic
🤩 AI Engineering Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
🤩 Testing - Jest/Vitest for javascript and Pytest for Python

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🧨 PRODUCT HUNT 🧨

Golden Annual Kitty Awards are Open

If you are not familiar with Product Hunt, this is where every newsletter scrapes their “list of innovative tools” from - because they release daily and review weekly. So, The Golden Kitty Awards from Product Hunt names the best products, tools, and more by popular choice - yes it is the peoples choice awards for tech.

1. Product of the Year
   So far, Claude, ElevenLabs, and Supabase are in the lead (not ChatGPT)!

2. Developer Tools
   Langfuse, GptEngineerApp, and DecoCX are top 3 - with a special highlight that langFuse is open source (way to go yall!)

3. AI Model
   No sneak peak here, you gotta check it out for yourself! 🤭 

A great resource, and worth a good look at what others think - Product Hunt annual awards always provides great insights for those interested in up and coming technologies.

View here

HuggingFace

Huggingface and Friendli Ai partner

Hugging Face has partnered with FriendliAI to enhance the deployment and scaling of large language models (LLMs) through PeriFlow. This collaboration aims to simplify workflows for developers and researchers deploying LLMs in high-performance, production-ready environments.

Read more here.

⭐️ HuggingFace Model Trends ⭐️

DeepSeek is HOT HOT HOT

• This week, Deepseek R1 hits 20,000 downloads in a month.

• Deepseek R1-Zero was also updated 2 days ago!

• Mini CPM has hit 40,000 downloads as developers are excited about the vision, speach, and multi-modal model tuned for your phone!

• Kokoru TTS model hits 30k downloads and announced yesterday they will have another drop coming by the end of January

View them all here on Huggingface.

🗞️ NEWSROOM 🗞️ 

What’s hot in tech right now?

Databricks Raises $10B at $62B Valuation
Highlights their J series funding round, valuing Databricks at $62B, led by Thrive Capital.

Google invests further $1bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic
Alphabet, google’s parent company now hits $2B in investment in Anthropic. A quick shot view at the investment and Google’s positioning.

OpenAI Blog, A Quiet Segway into AI Driven News
A quiet response to Mistral’s recent French deal to work with news organizations to enter the field of journalism.

Tokens per Watt per Dollar - a new GDP Strategy
A linkedIn video with comments on Satya Nadella’s, the chairman and CEO at Microsoft, insights on the sweet spot where energy, compute power, and intelligence meet - Tokens per watt per dollar.

⭐️ BUILDER BYTES ⭐️

What’s hot for builders right now?

NVIDIA NV-Ingest: Scalable Data Ingestion Framework
This github repo, NVIDIA Ingest, is an early access set of microservices for parsing hundreds of thousands of complex, messy unstructured PDFs and other enterprise documents into metadata and text to embed into retrieval system.

How to Train Vision Transformers Effectively
A RoboFlow blog on training Vision Transformers (ViTs) for computer vision tasks, covering architecture, hyperparameters, and tricks for improved performance.

Hugging Face Journal Club - DeepSeek R1
In this 43 minute video, join the post-training team at Hugging Face discuss the tech report behind DeepSeek's ground breaking R1 models.

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