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Apple to Support RCS 🍏, OpenAI's Voice Cloning 🎙️, and Amazon's $4B Bet 🔍
This week's TechToks: Apple dipping toes in RCS waters, voice cloning with OpenAI, Amazon's faith in Anthropic, emerging trend in AI Language models, and more from GitHub and ProductHunt!
TechTok by João Martins
April 03, 2024
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🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful news of this week
OpenAI has developed a voice cloning tool called Voice Engine, which allows users to generate synthetic copies of a voice from a 15-second sample, but the company is carefully managing its release to address potential misuse of the technology. |  |
Google briefly displayed a message indicating that Apple will add support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhones this fall, likely with the upcoming iOS 18 update, improving messaging experiences between iOS and Android devices. |  |
Amazon doubles its planned $4 billion investment in AI company Anthropic, demonstrating its confidence in Anthropic's AI models and their potential to compete at the highest levels of capability. |  |
🧐 Weekly Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
Low Cost Robot Arm, a lightweight robot arm ($250) with the option to create a leader arm for dual-arm control.
LLaMA significantly improves its performance on CPUs for processing prompts/images.
You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it article talks about approach to user privacy, where they do not store or have access to users' personal data.
Doom Captcha (2021) a challenging captcha system that tests users' reflexes and gaming skills by requiring them to complete a mini Doom game.
Deep Learning in JavaScript (js-torch) PyTorch but in JavaScript
Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke. revolutionized email by offering unprecedented storage space, transforming the way people perceived and used email
Documents reveal Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of the week
heyform/heyform (⭐️ 2.4K)
An open-source form builder that allows anyone to create engaging conversational forms for surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, and polls without any coding skills.
codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x (⭐️ 253K)
A collection of step-by-step guides for building various technologies from scratch, including 3D renderers, augmented reality apps, BitTorrent clients, blockchains/cryptocurrencies, and many other software systems.
Zejun-Yang/AniPortrait (⭐️ 2.9K)
A framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image, as well as face reenactment capabilities.
valkey-io/valkey (⭐️ 6.2K)
A high-performance, community-driven, open-source key-value store that supports a wide range of data structures and can be compiled and used on various platforms. (replacement for Redis)
developersdigest/llm-answer-engine (⭐️ 2.4K)
Support code to build a sophisticated answer engine that leverages various technologies like Groq, Mixtral, Langchain.JS, Brave Search, Serper API, and OpenAI to efficiently return sources, answers, images, videos, and follow-up questions based on user queries.
databricks/dbrx (⭐️ 1.9K)
DBRX large language model, an open-source 132B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained by Databricks, with a base model and an instruction-following model available on the HuggingFace platform.
This Week from Engineering Blogs
Selected articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
The article discusses how to fine-tune the Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 model using Amazon Bedrock model customization, which allows users to adapt the model to unique characteristics in custom datasets and generate personalized images, while ensuring data privacy and network security.
The article discusses how Uber has scaled its AI/ML infrastructure to support the growing complexity and scale of its machine learning models, including optimizing its existing on-premises infrastructure, upgrading its network for large language model (LLM) training, and leveraging cloud infrastructure for emerging workloads like Generative AI.
The article discusses how telecommunications and media companies can leverage MongoDB and AI to transform their industries, focusing on use cases like service assurance, fraud detection, and customer experience enhancement to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.
📱 Product Picks of the Week
Curated products from Product Hunt
Get automated, AI-powered code reviews that surpass existing tools. It offers real-time collaboration, fine-tunes reviews based on user feedback, and uses a configurable rule engine. Eliminate bugs, ship fast, and let developers focus on big problems.
The redesigned ClearVPN by MacPaw simplifies online privacy to just one tap. Enjoy hassle-free browsing and streaming with new handy features, including iOS widgets, Siri Shortcuts, and a Chrome ad-blocker. Works on Mac, iPhone, Android and Windows.
Hoory AI is a customer support automation platform driven by conversational AI that helps businesses streamline their support operations.