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Meta's Ray-Ban Smartglasses 👓, Microsoft's GenAI for realistic talking 👽, and Uber's LLM testing 🐉
Today's TechToks: Introducing Microsoft's VASTA-1, DragonCrawl mobile testing with GenAi, Meta's Rayban smartglasses with multimodal AI, GitHub trending repos, and more!
TechTok by João Martins
April 25, 2024
🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful articles of the day
Microsoft released VASA-1: AI generator for lifelike talking faces of virtual characters. Promising synchronized audio and lip movements, a wide range of facial expressions and natural motions, it's capable of enabling real-time interactions with the avatars and delivering 512x512 videos at up to 40 FPS. |  |
🧐 Daily Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library that provides a flexible and customizable solution for creating intuitive user interfaces usable in any view layer, by Atlassian.
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses now feature multimodal AI post early access rollout, offering utility in tasks like plant identification and object recognition, though functionality limitations such as the lack of zoom persist.
Millions of Borderlands 3 players executed 135 million tasks for reconstruction of microbial evolutionary histories through a minigame. Each task informs overlapping genetic sequences, which is a notable problem computers struggle with — even AI.
Rabbit's R1 is a new AI-powered gadget aiming to innovate consumer electronics after a decade of smartphone dominance, with a focus on design, user experience, and the challenges of justifying the existence of AI devices outside of smartphones.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Tiny11Builder is a collection of scripts to build a streamlined Windows 11 image by removing various preinstalled apps and components, making it a lightweight and customizable version of the operating system.
Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management solution with features like multi-user support, metadata viewing, search capabilities, and administrative functions. For mobile and web platforms.
GPT4All is an open-source ecosystem of large language models that can run locally on consumer-grade CPUs and GPUs, providing powerful and customizable AI capabilities without the need for cloud infrastructure.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
LangWatch provides an easy, open-source platform to improve and iterate on your current LLM pipelines, as well as mitigating risks such as jailbreaking, sensitive data leaks and hallucinations.
A Tinder/Hinge-like platform to meet others exploring startup and business ideas and find your cofounder.
Today from Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
Uber Developer Platform's DragonCrawl is a system that uses large language models to autonomously test mobile applications, adapting to UI changes and deciding on actions to take based on the screen it views, much like a human tester, leading to the blockage of high-priority bugs and considerable saving in developer hours and test maintenance costs. |  |