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Hacking on LLMs, curating multimodal datasets, and writing a book about RAG.

Harpreet Sahota 🥑

i've literally been waiting for years to have an OPEN SOURCE model like qwen3-vl-embedding

i tested its multimodal retrieval capabilities on a corpus of 412 short video clips and the results literally blew my mind

here are the queries i tested:

1. a cartoon guy drinks merlot wine

i like this query because we see how it can retrieve based on semantics (a cartoon), text (the label merlot), and temporal action in the video (the cartoon guy drinks the wine mid-way through the video)

2. garfield runs out of the door

semantics are awesome here, the model knows i'm talking about the cartoon character...

3. a woman in a blue dress sleeping on a red bench

the skeptic in you might think that it's retrieving just based on the red color block in the 2/3 of the video...but notice the specific part of the query "a woman in a blue dress..." and this is only shown in 3s out of the full 10s

this is such a huge release 

and it's gonna open up SO much more for multimodal video retrieval this year

on my wishlist is natural language search of pcd datasets, who gonna ship that?

you can hack around with the model using the resources below

check out the docs: here: https://lnkd.in/gh7yfBNP

and the quickstart nbhere:  https://lnkd.in/gbinsx7p

🤖 Hacker-in-Residence @ Voxel51| 👨🏽‍💻 AI/ML Engineer | 👷🏽‍♀️ Technical Developer Advocate | Learn. Do. Write. Teach. Repeat.

for those who missed it, or were there in-person and know the trouble i was facing 😆, my ODSC webinar is now live on youtube!

in this session i discuss visual ai techniques for automotive damage detection. 

i used the cardd dataset, which is a public dataset built specifically for vehicle damage analysis and demonstrated how fiftyone helps you explore, visualize, and build models to detect dents, scratches, cracks, glass shatter, tire flats, and broken lamps.

i feel like its a super practical workshop with some insightful workflows for visual AI in automotive settings, but as the creator i might be biased.

only one way to find out for yourself, watch the webinar!

https://lnkd.in/ewfz5vZD

Open video: Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota on youtube.com

Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota

sometimes i look back at the shit i get done and i genuinely impress myself

how teams really build Visual AI in the wild? what's the he messy reality?  

i don't know...and maybe its because nobody’s asking practitioners and compiling their answers so we can find out the landscape actually looks like. 

so, we at Voxel51 are kickin off the...

wait for it...

 State of Visual AI survey...vey...vey

for those out ther building visual AI systems i want your hot takes

what’s the hardest part about making visual ai a reality? 

let us know in this survey

it'll take you 30 minutes and is a much better use of time than baby sitting your runs and staring at your loss curves

i can't offer much beyond my heartiest thanks, but you will get early access to the full report with benchmarks, common pain points, and where you stand within the landscape. 

here's a link: https://lnkd.in/gnsADACy

MedGemma 1.5 supports detection, but for best results, you'll need to fine-tune. 

there's a kaggle competition using the model, i created a starter notebook to give you a jump start on how to fine-tune it for detection

checkout the starter notebook and additonal resources 👇🏼

cc Omar Sanseviero Megan Risdal Logan Kilpatrick

looking forward to the next meetup in boston!

Join our in-person meetup at the Microsoft Research Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts on Feb 18 to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gi4kpSMB

Talks will include:

• SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

• Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

• Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision #machinelearning #datascience

Syed Abdul Sami Rizvi, Matthew Ebisu and 118 other attendees

View event: Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

in the asu area and wanna get started with open source contributions? then don't miss this hack

On March 21, 2026, we’re hosting Agents World: Visual AI Hackathon @Arizona State University, together with Pavan Turaga 🚀 

This is a hands-on day: meet people, build with AI, eat pizza, and leave with something you created after a short workshop and a full day of hacking. 
You’ll work with the FiftyOne ecosystem and real models used in practice, like Qwen, Gemini Vision, Sharp, and more. 

If you’re an ASU student who wants to build, learn by doing, and work with real Visual AI tools, this is for you.

Registration is open:
https://lnkd.in/gBCHW5Fg

Hope to see you at ASU. I’ll be there with the amazing Voxel51 team:  Sid Mehta, Ritchie Martori, Jimmy Guerrero ! 🙌

Inspired by the amazing Hugging Face’s 2025 AI Timeline, we created one for the Fiftyone community. The FiftyOne Community Development Timeline highlights more than 131 contributions from 2025, including datasets, models, plugins, and integrations.

You can filter by type or modality and jump straight to each integration.
https://lnkd.in/ev2kpCGN

Big thanks to the entire Voxel51 community for building all of this together.
Harpreet Sahota 🥑, Daniel Gural, Paula Ramos, PhD, Jimmy Guerrero, Derek Van de Streek, Nicholas Lotz 🚀

Gonna be a great series of talks, lots of technical depth!

Chief Community Officer @ Voxel51 | Startup Advisor

Join us on Feb 18 for the Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup! Pre-registration is mandatory to clear building security - https://lnkd.in/gHtBuH49

Talks will include:

* SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

* Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at MIT

* Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

* Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at MIT

* Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

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Want to build better computer vision models? FiftyOne is an open source toolkit from Voxel51 (our Meetup sponsor) that helps you curate datasets, evaluate model performance, visualize embeddings, catch annotation errors, and eliminate duplicate images—all in one place.

“pip install fiftyone” is all it takes to get started - https://docs.voxel51.com/

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision
#machinelearning #datascience #physicalai

SCOTT TAYLOR - The Data Whisperer

Let me help you TELL YOUR DATA STORY 

I can be your voice for Data Management 

Partnering with Enterprises and innovative Data Brands that want to change the nature of data management - and help them tell their story!

As **The Data Whisperer** I help "calm data down" 

I am a firm believer in “making your data do the work,” and have enlightened countless business executives to the value of proper data management by focusing on the strategic rationale and business alignment rather than technical implementation and system integration. 

I'm more of the strategic WHY than the technical HOW. 

I have spent over two decades solving master data challenges with large global enterprises as well as guiding Tech Brand owners to leverage their reference data and taxonomy assets.  

In a variety of strategic marketing, GTM, innovation and consulting roles, I have worked with some of the world’s most iconic business data brands including Dun & Bradstreet, Nielsen, Microsoft, Kantar, NPD as well as start-ups such as Qoints and Spiceworks.  

I'm an avid business evangelist and original thinker, and continually share my passion for the strategic value of foundational data through public speaking opportunities, blogs, videos, whitepapers, podcasts and all forms of marketing content. 

Highly effective strategic Subject Matter Expert/SME working directly with sales and alliances to reinforce the value of data management.

If you are an innovative Tech Brand looking to change the very nature of data management let me help you tell a better story!

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We are a strategic marketing consultancy focused on partnering with innovative Tech Brands that seek to change the nature of enterprise data management - and want help to tell that story.  Our experience is rooted in helping countless business executives understand the strategic value of proper data management.  Data has never been hotter but Tech Brands can't always break through the clutter.  We are proponents of compelling messaging that is also technically accurate. 

Honestly have not been thinking too much about data recently 😎  


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Due to…ahem…local weather, yeah local weather 😎 I won’t be able to make it to Data Day Texas and will miss seeing a bunch of my data friends. 

BTW When is Data Day Antigua? 🇦🇬

Joe Reis Jordan Morrow Matthew Housley Jean-Georges Perrin Ole Olesen-Bagneux Sanjeev Mohan  Dylan Anderson  Ryan Dolley 🎯 Mark Freeman II  Tim Gasper Bill Inmon Winfried Adalbert Etzel  Alex Merced  enjoy the snow ❄️ 




#datastorytelling 



Jolly Harbour, Antigua 🇦🇬

If your hair is on fire every time you upgrade Apache Spark… 🔥

You’re not alone. For many teams, Spark upgrades set off a full on fire drill: chasing deprecated APIs, fixing dependencies, and validating data, all while keeping production running.

At AWS re:Invent they announced an AI-powered Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR that changes everything. It works inside your IDE to:

📈Analyze and modernize code
🛠️Fix build and runtime issues
✅Validate tests and data outputs

What used to take months of engineering effort can now be done in hours, or even minutes.

Less fire. 🔥 More warmth. ☺️

If you’re running Spark on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EMR, this is worth checking out.

Read all about it here : https://lnkd.in/gePZcTck

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