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In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails framework. We move beyond simple prompt filtering to implement a layered architecture, featuring deterministic PII redaction, retrieval filtering, output masking, and policy-based ...

The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs; Groq rebuilt itself as an inference cloud after licensing its LPU technology to NVIDIA. This comparison checks each provider's live rate car...

S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text appeared first on MarkTechPost.

NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an Apache-2.0 project that takes a supported Hugging Face or local checkpoint to end-to-end TensorRT inference in two commands, with no intermediate ONNX export. The build emits a versioned .bundle artifact that runs through nativ...

Develop a complete document intelligence pipeline with docTR, integrating OCR, layout analysis, and KIE for production-oriented extraction and searchable PDF creation. The post Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searcha...

DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is an MIT-licensed agent harness where every capability is a Cordis plugin. Four runtime modes, append-only session logs, and provider-agnostic model routing. The post DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is ...

Implement an end-to-end fine-tuning pipeline for tool-calling language models. This tutorial covers parsing trajectories, structured tool-call extraction, Qwen-compatible ChatML rendering, and efficient LoRA adaptation using PyTorch. The post Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ...

This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model. By streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, we apply quality filters and curate data for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Using SmolLM2-135M-Instruct and LoRA, we demonstrate an end-t...

In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest model on a synthetic classification dataset while balancing predictive accuracy against model footprint. We begin by defining a mixed sea...

Move beyond traditional text-based parsing with PixelRAG, an end-to-end system that treats web pages and PDFs as images. This tutorial explores the complete pipeline—from rendering and tiling to multimodal embedding and hybrid search—enabling developers to build high-performance, visual document ret...

AI agents, MCP servers, and LLM apps break the core AppSec assumption that applications do what their code says. This guide walks through a practical see-fix-protect framework: a five-layer agentic AI attack surface map, a 12-point misconfiguration checklist, an evidence-based triage matrix, runtime...

Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product search. On a 90-query benchmark scored by three independent LLM judges, Ontology 1 reached a mean precision@10 of 0.630, against 0.543 for Google ...

In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating...

Discover how to implement a streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline using LingBot-Map. From GPU-aware configuration and preprocessing to GCTStream model inference and point cloud generation, this guide walks you through the steps to convert image or video sequences into consistent 3D scenes with export...

Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used int...

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a security-tuned endpoint on its Fugu orchestration model. It reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, edging past GPT-5.5-Cyber and Claude Mythos Preview. Access is gated behind manual approval, a defensive-use policy, and the Token Plan. Here is what the...

Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to implementing complex workloads—including tiled tensor-core GEMM, fused softmax, and FlashAttention—while letting the compiler h...

OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target — they were optimizing a score. Here is the mechanism, what the ExploitGym data showed two months earlier, and which widely repeated...

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits y...

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits y...

In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment to comparing high-detail tiled Gundam inference and faster Base modes, you'll learn how to process dense layouts, tables, and cross-page...

Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard — which means rank no longer decides anything. This roundup compares 16 op...

Gigatoken is an MIT-licensed Rust BPE tokenizer that encodes text at gigabytes per second. On a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565, it runs GPT-2 tokenization at 24.53 GB/s. That is 989x HuggingFace tokenizers and 681x tiktoken, against baselines already written in multithreaded Rust. The gains come from a hand...

Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the trai...