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Helping organize @AIconference #raysummit #NLPsummit #DataAISummit ; Past: Co-Chair of @strataconf @OReillyAI @TensorFlowWorld & #SparkAISummit

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Your AI playbook for the rest of 2025
🚀🎯 https://t.co/jCEd2Y94zc

[Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 @bigdata]

From Chat to Prediction: Where Enterprise AI Is Heading
🎯 The next wave of enterprise AI is not just better chat. It is models that understand the structured, transactional, and telemetry data behind real business operations. That is where specialized foundation models are starting to break through.
→ https://t.co/seZiuYBYex

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How to Know Your AI Agent Is Ready to Deploy
🎧 Manual testing of AI agents doesn't scale. Zhou Yu of ArklexAI explains why simulation-based evaluation is the rigorous alternative. Ship with evidence, not hope.
https://t.co/qS7SZyxVki

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On our last night in Sioux Falls, I heard a tornado siren for the first time 🌪️ here's the view from the Steel District #dtsf

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How Specialized Models Are Rewriting the Enterprise AI Playbook
🎯 The enterprise AI stack is getting more specialized. General LLMs are useful, but they were not built for every table, transaction, and telemetry stream. New foundation models are targeting the data layer where business actually happens
→ https://t.co/seZiuYBYex

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The New Stack of Enterprise AI Models
🙌 “Just use an LLM” was only the opening act. Enterprise AI now has to reason over tables, transactions, workflows, and telemetry. A new class of specialized foundation models is being built for that harder problem.
→ https://t.co/seZiuYBYex

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🆕 Enterprise AI is moving past the "just use an LLM" phase.
🔎 LLMs are great, but businesses run on structured tables, transactions, and telemetry. A new wave of specialized foundation models is here to handle complex operational data.
→ https://t.co/EjXvfxzKir

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Cascata for breakfast in Sioux Falls 👍 great setting and great food
#dtsf
https://t.co/oDie0ebpkn

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Spotted at Urban Archeology, downtown Sioux Falls #dtsf

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[Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 @bigdata]

https://t.co/BjfY2iTOh0 🛑 Tracking the Costs, Risks, and Rules of AI
https://t.co/b9t8hSnb2z

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Congrats to @conikeec and the Modiqo team on the launch of rote. The core idea is practical:
✅ when an agent successfully completes a workflow, capture what happened and turn it into something the team can reuse, inspect, and govern.
✅ getting an agent to work once is not the same as keeping it working after models, APIs, permissions, and business rules change.
🙌 https://t.co/pRnUNpUH22

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🚀 Doris Xin & Moustafa Abdelbaky, co-founders of Disarray, explore why classical #machinelearning still matters in the age of LLMs — and how agentic systems are transforming enterprise ML development.
🎧 https://t.co/tF2fCNavOu

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Top-Down or Bottom-Up: Two Paths for Internal Agents
💥 AI agent examples are showing up in normal business workflows: hiring, restaurant operations, knowledge work, audit, and real estate.
👉 https://t.co/2GwNyfeGfN

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Tariffs ➕ Wars ➕ climate (droughts)
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https://t.co/k7CYGYwjOV

[Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 @bigdata]

🔎 Agents Inside Real Work Loops
✨ The most interesting AI agents are not the flashiest. They sit inside real work loops, draw on domain-specific data, and preserve human judgment where it counts. A look at how Upwork, DoorDash, Meta, EY, and Fundrise are putting them to work
👉 https://t.co/7V59rbbkOB

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🆕 What Working AI Agents Actually Look Like
💥 AI agents are finally stepping outside the coding world and into daily business operations. The real magic is not in the model itself but in how it handles speed, judgment, and data access within existing workflows
👉 https://t.co/7V59rbbSE9

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Hip-Hop Mix at #SanFrancisco Carnaval 2026
https://t.co/xQ238JtDuD

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Movie of the week 🎬 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies 🇹🇭
https://t.co/TmZGSypVuZ

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Sushi 🍣 Make AI Great Again 🤖
https://t.co/T0Q6zhElQ6