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| Hey Insiders! Today's newsletter covers a new code-generating model, Chrome 114 beta, and Angular 16 release. Also, Modular launched Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Sudarshan
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| 1 | HuggingFace and ServiceNow unveiled StarCoder, a free code-generating model trained on over 80 programming languages. It integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor and can follow basic instructions and answer questions about code. In a recent Sourcegraph survey, 95% of developers said they are already using AI to code. 
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| 2 | Google announced the beta of Chrome 114 with CSS headline balancing, CHIPS, the scroll end event, and Popover API. Origin Trials available in the beta version include cross-app and web attribution measurement and the background blur API. | |
| A message from our sponsor, TRUERA. |  | | LLM Testing and Monitoring – Join the Hands-On Workshop How can you ensure that your large language model is honest, harmless, and helpful? Join TruEra on May 11th and 18th as their President and Chief Scientist, Anupam Datta, provides a hands-on overview of how to analyze and improve the performance of your LLMs. During the two 60-minute online sessions, he will cover the following: - Quick introduction to LLMs - what are they and their history?
- Risks and challenges of LLMs: is your LLM honest, harmless, and helpful?
- Defining feedback functions to model LLM quality and performance
- How should you test and monitor LLMs?
- Live walk-throughs of how to identify, diagnose, and debug model issues in development and production
- Q&A with Professor Datta
Dates: 2-session series on May 11th and 18th Where: Virtual Event - Join from Anywhere Who should attend: Data scientists, machine learning engineers, MLOps managers, data analysts, statisticians, data and analytics managers Join for free | |
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| 3 | The team behind Angular released version 16 with the developer preview of a new reactivity model to improve performance and experience and other quality-of-life improvements. Other features and updates include the ability to define reactive values and express dependencies in the Angular signals library, the developer preview of the esbuild-based build system, better unit testing with Jest and Web Test Runner, and more. | |
| 4 | Next.js 13.4 is now available with a production-ready App Router that offers React server components, nested routes and layouts, simplified data fetching, and built-in SEO support. The latest release also introduces the beta of Turbopack and support for experimental Server Actions. | |
| 5 | Microsoft released a new version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant in Visual Studio that helps developers upgrade their applications to the latest .NET version and migrate older platforms, such as Xamarin Forms and UWP, to newer versions. New updates and enhancements include improvements to how it upgrades NuGet packages, upgraded incremental scenario to use YARP 2.0, support for SDK-style projects that use System.Web, and more. | |
| 6 | Modular unveiled Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers that it says combines the usability of Python with the performance of C. Modular claims Mojo offers Rust-like memory safety and is 35,000x faster than Python when running numeric algorithms. | |
| 7 | Twitter restored free API access for verified government and publicly-owned services that use the service for critical purposes, such as weather alerts, transportation updates, and emergency services. In January, Twitter announced that the company would enforce long-standing API rules and blocked developers from using the API to create substitute products or services. | |
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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