This week we will be back at HudsonAlpha in their classroom. This is a new room for us, which I believe is on the opposite side from the large conference room we have been using. HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge We should have Tyler Clark stop by for a few minutes to discuss some changes to HATCH […]

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to kick off our monthly Paper Review series! We will be holding these sessions every 4 weeks on Zoom. The first one will be led by Josh Phillips: This month we will be exploring the current evolution in AI reasoning models. We will start with a short review […]

This week we will have Jack Francis provide an overview of Deep Research: We will explore Google’s Gemini Deep Research, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Open-Source Deep Research implementations. Deep Research is an LLM agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. We’ll dive into the […]

This week we will go through the AI Agents course offered by HuggingFace. The course consists of 4 units, and the first two have been released so far. This is a self-paced course with a lot of good material and hands-on examples. There’s also a certificate when you finish if you are interested in that. […]

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! This week will be a detailed review of the system card paper for Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Claude 3.7 is a new hybrid reasoning model designed to enhance transparency in AI decision-making processes. This virtual session will examine the technical aspects of Claude […]

It’s been a while since we covered Video Generation models, actually February of last year. I dropped a link below from the email for last year that covers the list of models that we covered. I believe that Sora is the only one currently still in use. This week we will focus on the Wan2.1 […]

This week we will continue our series on AI Agents, based on the HuggingFace tutorials. We will also jump into some of the protocols such as MCP and A2A. The frameworks covered include: smolagents LlamaIndex LangGraph AI Huntsville Taskforce The date for the Introduction to AI session has changed to May 15. The intent is to […]

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! This month we are looking at the concepts behind recent advancements in video generation. We will focus on Diffusion Transformers and Flow Matching techniques, culminating in a review of the recent Wan 2.1 technical report. This virtual session will follow our […]

The State of AI: Innovations, Applications and Impacts in Planning For the last 2 years, AI has been one of the trends recommended in APA’s Trend Report for planners to act and prepare for. The report notes that while the advancements in Gen AI have the potential to greatly enhance public services, there are concerns […]