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Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 455

Deep Learning Weekly 2 months ago

Deep Learning Weekly Issue 455 covers numerous AI and ML developments including Perceptron AI's new vision-language model priced 80-90% cheaper than competitors, Notion's launch of an agent orchestration platform, and Thinking Machines' interaction model handling concurrent audio, video, and text. A key technical finding from UK AISI shows frontier models can autonomously complete cyber tasks 50% faster than previous estimates, with task completion lengths doubling every 4.7 months. Multiple papers advance memory efficiency in language models and agent capabilities, while tools like Unsloth and Opik improve training and monitoring infrastructure for production AI systems.

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Promptimus: Improving already good LLM prompts with zero manual engineering

Amazon Science 2 months ago

Amazon researchers presented Promptimus, a method that automatically optimizes existing large language model prompts by identifying failure points and making targeted improvements without full rewrites. The system achieved best results on 16 of 20 benchmarks with an average performance score of 0.792 compared to 0.765 for the best baseline, typically reaching 90% of final performance within 300 metric evaluations. Enterprises can now improve production prompts across different LLM models without manual reengineering while preserving critical domain requirements and business logic.

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Nectar Social: Rewriting the Modern Marketing Playbook

Menlo Ventures 2 months ago

Nectar Social launched an agentic marketing platform that deploys autonomous agents to engage customers across social media DMs, comments, and community spaces where traditional marketing tools cannot operate. The startup is processing 10 million autonomous conversations per week and has attributed $100 million in revenue across these interactions, with customers including e.l.f. Beauty and Liquid Death. Nectar raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures, enabling brands to maintain consistent presence across fragmented social channels where purchasing decisions increasingly occur.

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Thursday, 14 May 2026

Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 455

Promptimus: Improving already good LLM prompts with zero manual engineering

Nectar Social: Rewriting the Modern Marketing Playbook

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Agentic AI

Thursday, 14 May 2026

Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 455

Promptimus: Improving already good LLM prompts with zero manual engineering

Nectar Social: Rewriting the Modern Marketing Playbook

Every AI story that matters, in your inbox by 8am.

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