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COMING UP THIS WEEK Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Join us for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards. This new standard of RL is worth understanding today as an AI Engineer or LLM Engineering Practitioner. This session will get you up to speed on what makes RLVR different than previous methods we've studied before on our channel including RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, and others. We'll compare and contrast RLVR and GRPO (popularized by DeepSeek-R1) and build, ship, and share some...

COMING UP THIS WEEK AWS Agent Squad Join us as we dig into AWS’s open-source Agent Squad—a multi-agent orchestration framework that routes requests via a global “Classifier” while preserving conversation context. We’ll demo how it plugs into AWS-native tools compare it with other popular frameworks. Featuring AWS’s Milan McGraw and Aravind Subramanian, this session is ideal for engineers and AI leaders choosing their next agent stack REGISTER EVENT RECAPS gpt-oss Last week, we checked out...

An Introduction to Context Engineering According to @dexhorthy, "everything that makes agents good is context engineering." Check out his talk from the AI Engineer World's Fair from June 3, 2025. Image Credit: Dex Horthy We agree. You shall know a word by the company it keeps. ~ John Firth, A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory (1957) Today, we might say: You shall know an LLM application (or agent) by the context it keeps ~ AI Makerspace We were pumped to see Dex - the man who coined the phrase -...

COMING UP THIS WEEK gpt-oss: The Frontier of Open-Weight Reasoning Models OpenAI just dropped gpt-oss, their first open-weight LLM since GPT-2. In this session, we'll unpack what’s inside the 120B and 20B variants: agent-friendly tool use and CoT strengths, long-context (128k), MoE FFNs, GQA, the SFT+RL training pipeline, and the safety work behind the release (including the new risk-assessment paper). We’ll also cover the tokenizer/prompting stack (o200k_harmony + harmony format), compare...

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...