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• 🥊 Fully open-source LLM release: OLMo 2, Sora leaked, Uber’s AI data labelling delivery

• ⚛ From Quantum Machines: Understanding Google’s Breakthrough

🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories

• 🔮 Single-command environment setup

• 👍 Companies with practical interviews

• 🚀 Learn by project building

🔥 Products of the Week

• 🙌 Simple, informative web debugging

• ✅ Auto-fix best practices at every code change

• 💯 Streamline your social brand

• ➕ And much more

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Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today

Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released OLMo 2, fully open-source language models developed with partners like Harvard and Databricks. Unlike OpenAI, Meta and Mistral, AI2 is more transparent by releasing the code to produce training data. Performance wise, OLMo 7B is a “compelling and strong” alternative to Meta’s Llama 3.1

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📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt.

🔥Trending products of the week

🙌 BetterBugs.io

Chrome extension for dev teams who hate guesswork. Capture network, console, and browser details. Get root cause analysis, actionable steps, and AI-driven fixes. Built for QA-Dev teams who value speed, precision, and collaboration.

🌀 Portals by Ply

Powerful form-like experiences that are connected to your data in real time. Combine your processes, AI and business logic to make your ideal customer workflows. No coding required.

🌊 AutoFlow Studio

Testing faster with simplified AI-powered QA. Lets you create user-stories based end to end tests, without writing any code.

💯 Postiz

Streamlines your social media. Schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage all accounts in one place. Fully open-source— You can host it on your own machine.

✅ Warestack

Automates operational tasks triggered by code changes, ensuring your development process consistently adheres to best practices. Gain visibility, optimize workflows, and reduce manual overhead to keep your team on track.

👩🏽‍💻 Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Understanding Google’s Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

A key step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

The Challenge: Why Quantum Computing Needs Error Correction

In quantum computing, errors accumulate rapidly due to the hyper-sensitive nature of qubits (a quantum computing unit). However, Quantum Error Correction only succeeds when the error rate per qubit falls below a critical threshold.

Google’s Solution: Distance-7 Surface Codes

Google increased the distance of surface codes— a grid of qubits to detect and fix errors. Think of it like having multiple copies of the same important data spread across different qubits: If one qubit gets "confused," others can step in to correct it.

• They increased to distance-7 with a grid of 101 physical qubits: 49 data, 48 measure, and 4 leakage removal qubits.

The Results: Faster, More Precise Error Correction

• Logical error rates decreased by 2.14x

• Logical qubits doubled its lifespan compared to their best physical qubit.

This is the first time a quantum processor has definitively shown below-threshold performance, showing that their logical qubit corrects errors faster than accumulates.

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✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

daytonaio/daytona

Daytona is an open-source development environment manager that streamlines the setup process. With a single command, it automates environment provisioning, configuration, and secure connection establishment, regardless of location. Daytona supports various IDEs, configurations, and Git providers.

What can you use this for? Setup your environment quick, streamline remote development workflows, and simplify secure environment access

poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

A list of companies with practical interview methods and a concise description of their overall process, rather than traditional whiteboard coding tests. Instead of focusing on trivia, these companies simulate real-world problems, often using take-home assignments or pair-programming sessions.

 What can you use this for? Explore interview processes and find companies you’d like to apply for

Repos to learn something new  

practical-tutorials/project-based-learning

Lists programming tutorials to build apps from scratch. It's categorized by language (C++, C#, Java, etc.), with step-by-step instructions from beginner-friendly to complex projects.

What can you use this for? Build real-world applications, explore language-specific tutorials, and add to your portfolio