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💡 From the case studies

The stand-out theme of the month was surely operational efficiency, with improvements in speed, quality, and costs achieved in

• Food production
• E-mail classification
• Automobile maintenance forecasting
• IT project management

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We also featured a case about marketing data visualization in real estate.

📜 From the blog

• Google released Meridian, a marketing mix model, aspiring to compete with Meta's Robyn. And we have some thoughts.
• What do you do when sectoral regulation restricts you from deploying conventional churn models? Our very own Clément faced this challenge and debriefed his approach in the Churnover Chronicles.
• When Microsoft gets serious about something, it is important we pay attention. So we published an article about Fabric. Watch this space.

🌐 From everywhere else

• DeepSeek took the world by storm. I had thoughts on the effect of such an open-source model. Whether DeepSeek comes from China or anywhere else matters less than the upcoming democratization of powerful reasoning models.
• By the way: Make sure you and your colleagues do not use the official DeepSeek app!
• Qwen it rains, it pours: if you think DeepSeek is all there is, wait until you hear about Qwen.
• Meanwhile, in Europe, we got this Open LLMs announcement... 🤷
• I re-shared an (oldie but goodie) paper on "algorithm aversion". In short: people often resist relying on algorithms—unless they are given even a slight amount of control over the outcome.
• Anthropic has published a captivating study. In their “Economic Index” report on AI's impact on the workplace, they highlight a few interesting trends on Claude AI usage by task, but also by occupation.
• Google's Gemini Flash 2.0 might take us closer to solving the bottleneck that is PDF processing. Sergey Filimonov explains why.
• Understanding Reasoning LLMs: a super didactic illustrated overview.
• The "library sorting problem" is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution combines a little knowledge of the bookshelf’s past contents with the surprising power of randomness.
• Claude released Claude 3.7 and Claude code. Spoiler alert: it's better than the previous version. Claude code looks interesting, though, and builds on Claude's good reputation amongst developers.
• OpenAI released GPT-4.5. Spoiler alert: it's better than the previous version.
• Perplexity is about to release a browser. I personally LOVE Perplexity, but I also love Arc browser. I wonder what else can be done in the browser space without disorienting users.

🧪 From the lab: What we're cooking

• Clément demoed an AI chatbot for project management. It converts natural language into SQL queries, helping managers assign employees to projects based on their availability, skills, and location.
• Nicolo demoed MLflow, a tool for standardizing ML projects with production-ready code. It serves as a tracking server that logs changes in features, models, and experiments.
• Clément and Nicolò have explored ways to make RAG projects more user-friendly. Their approach ensures projects are easy to use, can be customized for different needs, and keep data safe and accessible. Among the tools considered were Dify (our top pick so far), RAGFlow, and Pydantic.

🧑‍💻 Life @ Agilytic

• We celebrated 300 successful projects! Time flies when you're having fun.
• We were fortunate to be nominated at the regional Trends Gazelles ceremony held in Nivelles.
• Our team got into some serious padel action (we should take more photos).

👋 Parting thoughts

That I am a news hoarder is nothing new. It all started with it being my job and falling in love with Google Reader (🪦 R.I.P.). I'm now sharing this with you, thanks to some newfound motivation and an efficient workflow. I hope this is useful to you.

Believe it or not, but there's more I could have shared. Some of it is a little bit tangential to Agilytic topics (Apple, renewables, sociology...), so I won't bore you with those here, but head on over there if you'd like to see what interests me in tech beyond this.

All the best,

Julien

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