A New Year In AI

In partnership with

Hello community member,

Welcome to 2025, Thank you for sticking with us. This newsletter exists because you keep coming back to each edition to see what we have for you. This year, we promise to keep feeding you with the best stories in AI and that starts today - So, grab a seat, sit back, and indulge. It’s time to savor the excitement of what the AI world has served up this week!

Here's your curated dose of the most significant events in the AI ecosystem this week:

1. Telegram introduces third-party account verification, filters

2. Meta plans to introduce AI bots to its Apps

3. Hugging Face launches lightweight agent framework

4. AgiBot releases powerful dataset to help train robots faster

Telegram’s starting the year strong with some exciting new updates. First up, they’ve introduced a fresh way to verify accounts. While they’ve already had a system for public figures and organizations, now third-party authorities—like food safety regulators or educational groups—can verify accounts too. Instead of the usual blue checkmark, these verified accounts will get a unique logo. The goal? To fight scams and misinformation by adding another layer of trust. If you or your organization wants to get verified, there’s a process to follow, and once you’re verified, you can even validate other accounts tied to your organization, with your logo displayed on their profiles. You can now turn gifts into NFTs with custom icons and backgrounds. You buy these with Telegram Stars, and if you’re into trading, you can even sell them on other platforms. Just keep in mind, there’s a small fee for the blockchain transactions.

Meta is planning to add AI-generated characters to Facebook and Instagram. These are not just bots, they will have profiles, bios, and even post content, just like regular users. So picture scrolling through your feed and seeing a post from an AI character. The motive behind this innovation is that Meta have spent a lot on AI technology and are finding ways to integrate it into their platforms. Also, they are looking to attract younger users and stay ahead of competitors. They have even bought a platform called SocialAI, where bots interact as different characters. The interesting part is that Meta has spent years fighting fake profiles, and now they are introducing their own AI personas. Whether these bots make social media more engaging or blur the lines between real and artificial interactions is something we will have to watch closely.mpanies, like Aurora Innovation, which works on self-driving cars, and Niantic, the folks behind Pokémon Go. Uber’s already recruiting in places like the U.S., Canada, and India.

CONNECT WITH US ON LINKEDIN

Hugging Face is working on something very interesting and it’s called the SmolAgents. It is a lightweight toolkit designed to make creating AI agents straightforward and practical. SmolAgents uses Hugging Face’s pretrained models to handle tasks like summarizing data, fetching information, or even writing and running code. You don’t need to be a tech expert to use it. It’s simple, efficient, and adapts to whatever project you are working on—whether it’s quick experiments or full-scale solutions. For example, one developer used SmolAgents to pull real-time stock trends and generate a Python script to visualize the data. All of that was done in seconds. If you have ever thought AI development was out of reach, this might be the push you need

AgiBot, a top AI and robotics company in China, just released a huge dataset called AgiBot World Alpha. This dataset is open to researchers and includes data from over 100 robots working in real-world settings. The idea is simple, make training humanoid robots easier and faster by giving them high-quality, real-world data to learn from. Teaching robots to do complex tasks, like using tools or working together with other robots, has always been a challenge. Most training happens in controlled environments, which doesn’t reflect real-world scenarios. AgiBot World Alpha changes that by offering over a million data points to help robots learn better. If you’re a researcher, you can access this dataset on GitHub or Hugging Face.

Featured Post

Trending AI tools for the Week

• FARSITE: AI Powered compliance software for US Government contractors

• ImageTextify: Text to Image Converter

• Fuselio: Your one stop shop for development

• Pawtrait: AI Pet Portrait

• FormBeat: Intuitive, AI-Powered cycling analytics that helps you train smarter

TIP OF THE WEEK

Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes

• Writer RAG Tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes with simple API calls.

• Knowledge Graph integration for intelligent data retrieval and AI-powered interactions.

• Streamlined full-stack platform eliminates complex setups for scalable, accurate AI workflows.

Learn more about our production ready RAG tooling here.

Most talked about tech story this Week

Upcoming Event

Date: JAN 7 - 11, 2025

Location: Las Vegas, USA

Submit Your Product on The AI Library Gamified Launchpad‼️

The AI Library Gamified Launchpad is officially launched and accessible to the public. Tech, AI and SaaS founders can now submit their product to enter into the monthly gamified launchpad - and stand a chance to win Product of the month. Check here for winner's benefit. Users can now discover tools in all categories for their everyday use and upvote their favorite product to win Product of the week. The launchpad is live! Get in now.

GET YOUR PRODUCT FEATURED ON OUR NEWSLETTER

Everything AI is read by thousands of AI/Tech/SaaS professionals and enthusiasts.

Reach out to us to give your product/tool the awareness it deserves.

That's a wrap!

Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive insights, offers, and the latest updates in the AI ecosystem

Never miss a beat on the AI front!

Time to log off, but don't worry, we'll be back in your inbox before you can say 'Ctrl+Alt+Del'!" 👋