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Meta's open VR OS 🥽, Microsoft's phone-deployable LLM 💥, & SOSV's Hax upcoming Demo-day ⚡

Today's TechToks: Introducing Meta Horizon OS, In-depth report on Microsoft's Phi-3-mini, HAX's May 1 Demo Day, GitHub trending repos, and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Meta Horizon OS is an open hardware ecosystem that allows multiple hardware partners, including ASUS, Lenovo, and Qualcomm, to build high-performance mixed reality devices powered by a common platform, enabling new user experiences in productivity, learning, and gaming.

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

Phi-3 mini — Microsoft's smallest ai — requires low hardware power but rivals Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5, achieving 69% on MMLU and 8.38 on MT-bench. With 8 billion parameters and trained on 3.3 trillion tokens, it's notable improvements rely on the training dataset: an upscaled version of heavily filtered web data and synthetic data previously used for phi-2.

Exploring the impact of the C++ final keyword, which is used to prevent virtual function overriding, across various compilers, systems, and test cases. Results highly depend on specific configuration and use case, in one case rewriting Peter Shirley's ray tracing minibooks code 4-5x faster.

Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform that provides an intuitive interface for building and testing LLM applications, including AI workflow, RAG pipeline, agent capabilities, model management, and observability features.

HAX, the SOSV-run hardware accelerator, will host its first demo day in four years showcasing over 30 startup companies in various fields like climate, manufacturing, computing, health, and energy. Some notable companies include: CocoonCarbon, PureLi, Renovate Robotics, Silana, and Swap Robotics.

"Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

Twenty is a powerful and customizable open-source CRM platform designed to empower businesses with full control and flexibility over their data and workflows.

Phidata is a framework for building AI assistants with memory, knowledge, and tools, enabling them to have long-term conversations, access business context, and take actions like querying APIs, sending emails, or accessing databases, making them smarter and more autonomous.

Unsloth is a collection of Colab notebooks to fine-tune llms like Llama, Gemma, and Mistral 2-5x faster with 60-82% less memory compared to traditional fine-tuning methods.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

Climatize is an SEC-registered platform for renewable energy investments, promising high-yield returns of 8-10% in under a year.

Radar is an AI-powered real-time data feed of newsletter sponsorships happening on thousands of newsletters.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Netflix's Video Encoding Service is a microservice which encodes an ingested video into a stream suitable for Netflix streaming in various formats, resolutions and quality levels to cater to a wide range of devices. Built for cost-efficiency, it caters to a high volume of daily encoding jobs and supports continuous release. This article covers the construction and features of VES, part of media computing platform Cosmos.