2024 ended in a bang! OpenAI showcased o3, Google sent a message with Veo 2, Gemini 2.0 and Willow, and starting 2025, NVIDIA made big announcements during the opening keynote at CES, while Microsoft announced an $80B investment in computer infrastructure to host all the different enterprise needs for the new generation of apps.

Is this just a PR stunt or are we at the beginning of something that will re-shape our lifes as few things have done in the past? We will try to figure it out as the days advance and as we explore some of the new models, frameworks and applications available.

I’ve been using Cursor for a while now, it’s now the default mode for me, but I constantly have to be alert and prevent it’s agents from deleting code that is actually useful, or guiding it to keep consistency on the way things are implemented, but overall, I love being able to get prototypes at a previously imposible speed.

In this first days of the year I’ve been testing a few tools:

  • smolagents from Huggingface, a new way of providing tools to agents, that now use native code (called CodeAgents) vs the usual tools that provide a schema to the LLMs.
  • Hugginface hosted models, I found this also while testing smolagents
  • The latest version of ollama, whith structured outputs using pydantic and llama3.2:latest for a small classification project.
  • Suno: the music generation subscription service, this really amazed me and in my mind the pricing is too cheap and I already tested different music styles and languages (english, spanish)
  • KlingAI: for video generation, I just started to play with it, the pricing is not as affordable, but the UI and async processing is wonderful and the photo to video feature with movement brushes is also amazing, I still need to test more on doing Harry Potter-style animated photograps of my grandparents black and white photos.

The amount of material available and the amount of releases we see everyday is difficult to manage and in Epikurious we will try to keep up to date and design a way to organize the most solid trends, to allow individuals and companies make the better use of this technologies on different levels and use cases.

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