Why "Context Engineering" Matters | AI & ML Monthly
Welcome to machine learning & AI monthly for August 2025.
This is the video version of the newsletter I write every month which covers the latest and greatest (but not always the latest) in the world of AI and ML.
Read the issues online:
AI/ML Monthly August 2025 (this video) — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly July 2025 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
AI/ML Monthly June 2025 — https://zerotomastery.io/blog/ai-and-...
My links:
Download Nutrify (my startup) - https://nutrify.app
Download KeepTrack (my other startup) - https://keeptrack.app
Personal website - https://www.mrdbourke.com
My ML blog - https://learnml.io
Read my novel Charlie Walks - https://www.charliewalks.com
Courses I teach:
Learn Hugging Face - https://learnhuggingface.com
Learn AI/ML (beginner-friendly course) - https://dbourke.link/ZTMMLcourse
Learn TensorFlow - https://dbourke.link/ZTMTFcourse
Learn PyTorch - https://dbourke.link/ZTMPyTorch
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Email Signup
0:40 - My work
1:35 - From the Internet
1:43 - Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse - https://blog.val.town/vibe-code
4:12 - Writing code was never the bottleneck by Pedro Tavares - https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-...
7:10 - Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era by Gian Segato - https://giansegato.com/essays/probabi...
13:01 - Why "Context Engineering" Matters by Drew Breunig - https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/24/w...
17:45 - Tokens are getting more expensive by Ethan Ding - https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-s...
23:35 - Mistral show how fine-tuning a vision language model can improve satellite imagery recognition - https://mistral.ai/news/unlocking-pot...
27:35 - Strategy Letter V by Joel Spolsky - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/0...
31:05 - How Xet storage layer improves uploads and downloads on Hugging Face - https://huggingface.co/blog/parquet-cdc
33:00 - Daniel's Open-source AI of the Month
33:10 - AIDC-AI release Ovis2.5 - https://huggingface.co/collections/AI...
38:05 - Google DeepMind releases Perch 2.0 - https://deepmind.google/discover/blog...
43:15 - Meta releases DINOv3 self-supervised computer vision backbones - https://ai.meta.com/blog/dinov3-self-...
51:30 - Google releases Gemma 3 270M, a small language model ready for fine-tuning - https://developers.googleblog.com/en/...
56:05 - OpenAI release gpt-oss-20B and gpt-oss-120B - https://openai.com/open-models/
1:02:25 - Allen AI release MolmoAct - https://allenai.org/blog/molmoact
1:05:45 - Qwen release Qwen-Image and Qwen-Image-Edit - https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-im...
1:08:25 - NVIDIA release a suite of updated models - https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-...
1:13:55 - Google releases LangExtract, an open-source library for extracting entities from text with LLMs - https://developers.googleblog.com/en/...
1:19:20 - OpenGVLab release InternVL-3.5 family and OpenBMB release MiniCPM-V-4.5 - https://huggingface.co/collections/Op...
1:21:45 - Microsoft release VibeVoice-1.5B for long multi-speaker speech generation - https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Vibe...
1:23:40 - Research - https://research.google/blog/mle-star...
1:27:15 - Releases - https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs...
1:30:35 - Videos