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EVENT RECAP Guardrails Last week, we were joined by the co-founders of Guardrails AI to unpack guardrails for LLM applications: what they are, why they are important, and how to thread them through the AI lifecycle. Guided by the AI Guardrails Index, we explored techniques to handle jailbreak protection, PII stripping, and hallucination suppression. 🧑🏫 Slides 🧑💻 Code 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK AFM: Arcee Foundation Model Arcee AI just dropped AFM-4.5B—another Small Language Model (SLM)...

Two years ago, AI Makerspace opened its digital doors with a bold vision: to build the world's leading community for people who want to build, ship, and share production-grade LLM applications. Today, that spark has erupted into a global learning community that is shipping and sharing prototypes on a daily basis. In just 24 months, we’ve launched 13 cohorts, served over 450 students, of which 137 are now certified AI engineers. Keep building, shipping, and sharing with us, like legends 🏗🚢🚀....

EVENT RECAP Deep Research: The API Last week, we dove into Deep Research through the API and built Circle of Mages 🧙♂️: A multi-agent AI research system that leverages both PhD-level and Masters-level AI agents to conduct comprehensive industry surveys and synthesize findings into academic survey papers. 🧑🏫 Slides 🧑💻 Code 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK Context Engineering Prompt engineering was only the warm-up—Context Engineering is now the main event. In this session, we’ll show why...

EVENT RECAP 🧠 The Illusion of Thinking Last week, we examined The Illusion of Thinking, which argues that scaling up test-time compute does not work on problems of extremely high complexity. The response paper by Claude Opus, et al. "The Illusion of The Illusion of Thinking" argues the paper was contrived and poorly designed. Who is right, and wait, do LLMs think or not?? 🧑🏫 Slides 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK Deep Research: The API OpenAI has officially released Deep Research through the...

EVENT RECAP 🦙 LlamaIndex Agent Memory: From Short-Term Storage to Intelligent Retention Last week, LlamaIndex DevRel Tuana Çelik and our very own Laura "The Legend" Funderburk explored in depth what it means to enable memory for agents, memory types 🧑🏫 Slides 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK 🧠 Large Reasoning Models: The Illusion of Thinking On Wednesday July 2, we'll dive into the great “reasoning vs. mirage” debate as we put two headline-grabbing 2025 papers—Shojaee et al.’s “The Illusion of...

EVENT RECAP 🧰 Live from the Toronto Machine Learning Summit! Last week, our team met in person for the Machine Learning Summit in Toronto where Dr. Greg and The Wiz presented the workshop RAG, Agents, and MCP: The 2025 Best-Practice Stack, and also gave us their first-hand insights into conference talks at the Summit - plus, get to meet our team! 🎥 Recording 🦙 Llama Stack: Zero to Production Hero This week, our team explored Meta’s Llama Stack, Llama Guard, and the many ways we can think...

EVENT RECAP 🧰 A2A: Agent2Agent Protocol Last week, we learned about the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol - how does the idea for A2A complement Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how can we use them with Agent Cards to get more out of our multi-agent apps? 🧑🏫 Slides 🧑💻Code 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK Codex: The Autonomous SWE On Wednesday, June 11, at 10:00 AM PT, join us live as we investigate ChatGPT Codex, OpenAI’s first cloud-hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) that reads, edits,...

EVENT RECAP 🧰 Google ADK: Agent Development Kit Last week, we learned why Google waiting until many other agent orchestration frameworks might have given them a leg up in the core constructs they used in the Agents SDK. Spoiler alert: it's pretty good! 🧑🏫 Slides 🧑💻Code 🎥 Recording COMING UP THIS WEEK Building Agentic Systems with Protocols: MCP & Agent2Agents (A2A) Tomorrow at 2:00 PM PT, we're diving deep into protocols including both MCP and A2A! How should we think about building...

EVENT RECAP 🧰 AnyMCP: Deploying MCP Servers Last week, we learned to deploy MCP servers to APIs, we compared MCP servers to REST APIs, and heard from experts Abishek and Lucas about the future of leveraging MCP servers in production LLM applications. 🧑🏫 Concepts: AnyMCP 🎥 Recording: AnyMCP: Deploying MCP Servers COMING UP THIS WEEK Google ADK: Agent Development Kit Google's ADK, the Agent Development Kit, is a new agent framework that allows us to design, deploy, and evaluate intelligent...