Sign Up | Advertise | Podcast | AI University | | | Happy New Year, AI enthusiasts. | That's a wrap on 2024, and an absolutely insane year of AI news, mind-blowing releases, robotic advances, and industry drama is officially in the books. | As The Rundown approaches one million subscribers, let's take a look at our biggest year yet and a sneak peek into what's coming in 2025. Let's get into it… | | In today's AI rundown: | The Rundown's year-in-review: Our biggest year yet AgiBot publishes massive humanoid robotics dataset How to improve your job search with Zapier Hugging Face launches lightweight agent framework 5 new AI tools & 5 new AI jobs More AI & tech news
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| | | | THE RUNDOWN | |  | Image source: The Rundown / Ideogram |
| The Rundown: In the last year, The Rundown has evolved from a simple newsletter into the world's largest AI community, with exclusive partnerships, industry-leading coverage, and an educational platform helping thousands leverage AI in their work. | Our 2024 year in review: | Our community grew to 868,485 daily active readers (up 87.8%), and The Rundown's team expanded to 12 members! Launched the AI University, which now serves over 5,000 members with premium AI education, practical AI workflows, and certifications. Secured exclusive interviews with tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Mustafa Suleyman, Demis Hassabis, covering major launches like Llama 3.1, Copilot Vision, and Gemini 2.0. Gained industry recognition through invitations to major events like Google I/O, Meta Connect, OpenAI DevDay, and more. Maintained coverage of every single major AI development throughout the year included OpenAI's o1 series, AI video generators, AI agents, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, and more.
| A look into 2025: Next year, we're scaling up The Rundown University with daily classes and free perks, launching a dedicated robotics newsletter, expanding our community-driven Q&As with AI leaders, and planning an epic giveaway for our upcoming 1,000,000 subscriber milestone 👀 |
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| | AGIBOT | |  | Image source: AgiBot |
| The Rundown: Chinese robotics company AgiBot just released AgiBot World Alpha, a new open-source dataset featuring over 1M trajectories from 100 robots designed to advance general-purpose humanoid training. | The details: | The collection encompasses training data from a fleet of 100 robots performing diverse tasks across industrial, domestic, and commercial settings. Training scenarios range from basic object manipulation to complex multi-robot coordination tasks, with 40% focused on household activities. The dataset is also reportedly 10 times larger than Google's Open X-Embodiment in navigational data and covers 100x more scenarios. Researchers and developers can freely access the complete dataset through platforms like HuggingFace and GitHub.
| Why it matters: Access to high-quality training data has been one of the biggest roadblocks in robotics development, and this massive open-source release could supercharge the next wave of household robotics innovation. It could also level the playing field for smaller developers who can now build with premium training data. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: Zapier's Chrome extension can compare your resume against job descriptions in real-time and get AI improvements for perfect matching and interview preparation. | Step-by-step: | Visit Zapier's website and create a free account. Install the Zapier Chrome extension and log in with your Zapier credentials. Go to the website with the job description, open the extension, paste your resume in a new assistant, and ask for resume improvements to match the job description. Use it on company websites for instant interview prep insights.
| Pro tip: Save successful bullet point improvements to build a "resume library" for future applications. |
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| | HUGGING FACE | |  | Image source: Ideogram / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: Hugging Face just released Smolagents, a minimalist open-source framework that allows developers to create powerful AI agents with just a few lines of Python code.
The details: | The streamlined library contains only about 1,000 lines of code while handling core agent functionality. A unique CodeAgent feature lets AI write Python code directly rather than using traditional tool-calling methods, reducing steps by 30%. The framework works with multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, and Qwen. The platform also enables sharing and loading tools through the Hugging Face Hub, with expanded functionality planned.
| Why it matters: 2025 will be the year of AI agents, and hyper-simple frameworks like this will continue to lower the barriers to agent development and allow more builders to harness capabilities without getting bogged down in complex implementations. Get ready to have an internet of agents readily available for any use case. |
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| | | | ZoomInfo reported AI job listings hit record highs in 2024, with C-suite positions up 428% since 2022 and over 10,875 new AI leadership roles created in Q2 2024 alone, signaling a major organizational shift toward AI-focused strategies. | OpenAI introduced deliberative alignment, a new safety approach that teaches AI models to actively reason through safety guidelines before responding — with its o1 model showing improved performance at rejecting harmful requests. | Alibaba Cloud announced major price cuts of up to 85% on its Qwen-VL visual language model, aiming to incentivize enterprise adoption of the Chinese tech giant's models. | Leeds researchers are trialing a new AI tool that scans GP records for risk factors to identify patients with undiagnosed atrial fibrillation before symptoms appear, aiming to prevent strokes through early detection and treatment. | Scientists are embracing AI hallucinations as powerful tools for breakthrough discoveries, with the New York Times detailing cases from Nobel Prize-winning protein design to medical devices and weather prediction. | University of Toronto researchers developed an AI app that can detect high blood pressure by analyzing voice recordings, achieving up to 84% accuracy without requiring traditional blood pressure measurements. |
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| | | | That's it for today!Before you go we'd love to know what you thought of today's newsletter to help us improve The Rundown experience for you. | | See you soon, | Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team | |
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