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Meta's AI leap 🚀, California's renewable milestone 🌞, Doubling LLM inference speed ⏱️
Today's TechToks: Meta's next-gen AI chip, Improving language modeling, remarkable strides in clean energy, hot GitHub repos, useful AI tools and more!
TechTok by João Martins
April 18, 2024
🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful articles of the day
Meta revealed the next generation of its AI-specific Training and Inference Accelerator chip (MTIA v2), twice as powerful and efficient as its predecessor MTIA v1, offering improved performance in generating AI models to optimize user experiences, particularly in ad ranking and recommendation. |  |
🧐 Daily Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
California reaches a significant renewable energy milestone, a promising progress in transitioning to clean energy sources.
The problem of centering elements in UI design — examples from big tech provided — and how it impacts UI perception. With font designs and resolutions to blame, solutions include tight bounding boxes, proper font metrics, using the right icon types, and optical compensations.
An implementation of a vector embedding-based search system using Postgres and pgvector, highlighting the benefits and challenges, as well as a detailed overview of the technical decisions and potential alternatives.
A demonstration of a technique that can potentially double the speed of large language model inference, showcasing significant performance improvements.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Redka is a Redis-compatible database built on SQLite, providing features like data that doesn't have to fit in RAM, ACID transactions, SQL views for better introspection and reporting, and both in-process (Go API) and standalone (RESP) servers.
Hono is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges that works on any JavaScript runtime, featuring high performance, lightweight design, multi-runtime support, batteries-included functionality, and delightful developer experience.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
SpeedLegal is an AI tool that helps you understand and negotiate contracts better. It can quickly identify potential risks, explain complicated legal terms in simple language, and give personalized suggestions to improve your contract.
Collato instantly transforms meeting transcripts, images, and audio recordings into documentation for free.