AI Builders Summit Week 1 Takeaways, 10 Trending Open Source AI Repositories, and Skills to Master AI in 2025
Next week’s AI Builders Summit theme is AI Agents!
There’s still time to catch today’s RAG sessions! You can also sign up for next week’s AI Agents talks and tutorials.
Topics include:
- Implementing AI Agents
- LlamaIndex Workflows
- Building Agentic AI
- World Models for Decision Making
- Evaluating Agents
Catch today’s RAG sessions or sign up for next week’s sessions on AI Agents!
Key Takeaways From Week 1 of the AI Builders Summit — LLMs
Week 1 of the first-ever AI Builders Summit is wrapped up! Across 5 hands-on sessions, attendees learned about fine-tuning SLMs, mixture of memory experts, and LLM model selection. Here’s a recap of what you missed.
AI Development Lifecycle Learnings of What Changed with LLMs
These are the key lessons and best practices for creating successful, high-performing LLM-based solutions as part of the AI development lifecycle.
Top 10 Trending Open Source AI Repositories Starting Off 2025
Here, we’ll explore ten noteworthy open-source AI repositories that are making waves in AI development.
AI in Data Governance: Enhancing Data Integrity and Security
In this post, let’s understand the growing role of AI in data governance, making it more dynamic, efficient, and secure.
ODSC Highlights
Attend AI Builders and get Over $1000 in Credits to Use!
If you sign up for AI Builders, then you get tons of credits to use to build AI! This includes credits from Confluent, Vespa.ai, Microsoft Azure, Predibase, Union.ai, DataSaur, and Modal!
Call for Speakers, Instructors, Exhibitors, and More: Contribute to ODSC East 2025
Here are all the ways that you can get involved with ODSC East 2025 in Boston, including speaking, volunteering, and partnering with us.
Need to find a data scientist, AI engineer, or another professional in the field? Post a job on our jobs board and find your perfect candidate.
ODSC East 2025–50% Off Ends Soon!
Bring your team and save more! Special team discounts are available — Increasing to 15% off if you bring more than 7 people!
Industry, Opinion, Career Advice
AI Mastery 2025: Skills to Stay Ahead in the Next Wave
To kick off 2025, we’re diving into industry trends, in-demand skills, and emerging roles shaping the field of artificial intelligence that will be important for the year ahead.
Navigating AI Leadership: Insights from Cal Al-Dhubaib
In a recent podcast, Cal Al-Dhubaib of Further discussed shifting from an AI practitioner to a leader, lessons learned, and building data science teams.
Data Science & AI News
OpenAI’s Kevin Weil Predicts the Arrival of Even More Effective AI Agents in 2025
It seems that humanity is on the brink of a transformative leap in AI, according to OpenAI’s Product Chief Kevin Weil.
Trump to Unveil $500 Billion Private Sector Investment in AI Infrastructure
In a recent announcement, President Donald Trump is expected to reveal a massive private sector investment of up to $500 billion dedicated to AI infrastructure.
Google Aims to Reach 500 Million Gemini AI Users by Year-End
Google is doubling down on its AI ambitions, setting a bold target of acquiring 500 million Gemini AI users by the close of 2025.
Apple Suspends AI-Generated News Alerts Amid Accuracy Concerns
Apple has temporarily disabled its AI feature for summarizing news headlines following widespread criticism over repeated errors.
Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot Chat to Accelerate Business AI Adoption
Microsoft has unveiled a new tool, Copilot Chat powered by GPT-4, aimed at simplifying AI integration for businesses.
New Podcast Episode — Navigating AI Leadership: From Individual Contributor to Scaling Teams and Driving Innovation with Cal Al-Dhubaib
In this episode of the ODSC AIx Podcast, we sit down with Cal Al-Dhubaib, Head of AI and Data Science at Further, to discuss scaling AI teams and becoming a leader in AI.
Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions
Foundation Models for Time-Series
Tuesday, January 28th, 12:00 PM ET
This presentation delves into the cutting-edge landscape of foundation models for time-series analysis. We will explore specialized neural architectures designed to unravel the complex temporal dynamics of sequential data and demonstrate how open-source models can unlock powerful predictive capabilities and insights.
