- TechTok Newsletter
- Posts
- Free GPT-4o and Llama 😎, Addictive AI 🌀, Fundamentals of a Developer 🧐
Free GPT-4o and Llama 😎, Addictive AI 🌀, Fundamentals of a Developer 🧐
Today's TechToks: GitHub's free AI playground, Build enterprise-grade apps with natural language, A psychological read on AI companions, Trending GitHub Repositories, Product Picks & More!
TechTok by João Martins
August 06, 2024
See all as stories in techtok.today
Today's Picks🍒
😎 Paid LLMs for free on GitHub (beta)
🌀 Blog post: A psychological and legal view on AI companions
⚡ How to build efficiently
🏅 From Github Engineering: Supporting neurodivergent employees
📘 From AWS Engineering: Build enterprise-grade applications with natural language
🖼️ From HuggingFace Spaces: generate music from a text prompt
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
🚀 SQLite extension for fast searching
🔥 Deploy LLMs on phone
☸️ Open-source container management
🧐 Fundamentals for a developer
🔥 Products of the Week
🔁 Auto translate video calls with minimum delay
✍️ Turn screen recordings into stunning product documentation
🏝️ A board of remote jobs
➕ And 3 more products to build complex AI Agents, manage user authentication & authorization, and receive positive reinforcement.
🧐 Daily Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
A blog post on the psychological and legal possibilities of human-computer interaction with AI companions, exploring consequences from the allure of AI-driven 'sycophantic' interactions.
GitHub Models provides a free AI model playground on GitHub, in restricted public beta. Developers can test different model parameters and prompts on LLaMA 3, GPT-4o, Mistral Large, Phi-3 and more.
A blog post with practical tips on how to build anything extremely quickly. It emphasizes a recursive outlining approach and a 'speedrunning' mindset, for efficiency and overcoming procrastination.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
🔁 toby
Real time speech translation on video calls in multiple platforms, with automatic voice-over and minimum delay.
✍️ Kroto
Turn screen recordings into detailed documentation with GIFs, product videos, custom branding, and natural-sounding AI voice-overs.
A curated job board featuring 100% remote jobs tailored for digital nomads.
An IDE that enables anyone to build complex AI Agents and applications. Provides prebuilt tools, API deployment, tracing, and more.
Managed user authentication & authorization. Open-source, self-hostable, and providing components like <SignIn /> for quick development.
Send a GitHub profile name and receive positive reinforcement from a chatbot in a click.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
A small, fast vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere. Stores and queries vectors in vec0 tables, with no dependencies.
What can you use this for? Build local AI apps, power vector search, and enable vector-based processing on resource-constrained devices.
torchchat is PyTorch’s versatile tool for running Large Language Models across Python, C/C++, iOS, and Android. It provides a command line interaction with popular LLMs such as Llama 3, Stories, and Mistral.
What can you use this for? Run Mistral or Llama via PyTorch/Python, on mobile, and evaluate a model.
Rancher is an open-source container management platform that makes it easy to run Kubernetes everywhere. It provides features like multi-cluster management, user authentication, and monitoring.
What can you use this for? Automate container deployments, monitor container health, and containerize applications.
Repos to learn something new
A collection of technical resources every software developer should know. It covers a wide range of topics, from algorithms and data structures to distributed systems and security, providing links to books, articles, and videos.
What can you use this for? Build your computer science fundamentals and find learning sources for new or experienced developers, like the Awesome Falsehoods of misconceptions programmers believe in.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
GitHub’s suggestions on 5 ways to further support neurodivergent employees, including openly celebrating neurodiversity, and building a Comunity of Belonging (CoB).
AWS App Studio, a generative AI-powered service, allows users to create enterprise-grade applications in minutes using natural language. In the demo below, it generated data models, business logic, and a user interface.
Quick Note
Help us reaching more people and get your shout-out in our newsletter 🤩!
Copy and share your unique referral link:
{{rp_refer_url}}
🤗 Hugging Face - Space of the Week
Try this free AI app
🪩 MusicGen
Generate a 5 seconds audio based on the description you provided. Trained on a stock music catalog, descriptions that work best would include details on the instruments and a use case (e.g. adding “perfect for a commercial” may help).
What can you use this for: Generate short audios for podcasts, product demos or social media, and quickly repurpose melodies.
