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Today's techtoks: Microsoft Phi-3.5 beats Google, arrested founder of massive app Telegram, special product picks, useful GitHub repos and more!
TechTok by João Martins
August 27, 2024
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Today's Picks🍒
🚀 Microsofts Unveils Small Language Model: Phi-3.5
⚡ Arrested Telegram founder
📦 Latest retail giant turned CSP provider, Webflow Conf, and Slack exploit that steals messages
☁️ From AWS Engineering: Powering billions of prime day deals, saves and sales
🏎️ From Unity Engineering: How BMW uses a game engine for real driving
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
⏱️ Modern load testing
💨 Blazing Fast blockchain analytics
⚡ Lightning-fast serving engine for AI models
🪟 Learn to build with GenAI and Microsoft
🔥 Products of the Week
🤝 Find effective leads to Coldreach
🐙 LLM observatory to manage all your AI apps
🔁 Convert videos to multiple languages
➕ 9 more products to create product demos, manage a startup, and more.
🧐 Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Microsoft unveils powerful Phi-3.5 AI Small Language Models, including:
The compact 3.8B parameter 'Mini'
The scalable 42B parameter 'MoE'
The multimodal 'Vision Instruct'
All are released under an open-source MIT license.
More picks this week
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
🔥Trending products of the week
Unlike traditional HR platforms, Central automates everything you need to operate a compliant US startup, like state registrations, worker's compensation and other filings – saving weeks of work, headaches and fines. Join 100+ companies that run on Central.
Fleak simplifies AI workflows for data teams. No infrastructure needed. It integrates with leading cloud data warehouses and vector databases. Build complex model chaining data workflows in minutes with Fleak's dynamic API builder. Start for free.
STORI is a completely new way for Entrepreneurs to do Personal and Business Brand building on Social Media. Imagine marketing AI agents on a mission to make you shine. 🪄 Generates brand foundation 📝 Creates brand-driven content ✊ PR for your entire team
🎬 Hexus AI
Effortlessly create interactive product demos, videos, step-by-step guides, and more in minutes. No need to juggle multiple tools - Hexus is the new stack for product-led teams to drive engagement and conversion.
🕷 AgentQL
Forget fragile XPath or DOM selectors. AI-powered AgentQL finds elements reliably, even as websites change. Just specify what data you are scraping from the web with natural language-like queries, and AgentQL will handle the rest.
Paperguide is an AI powered platform that streamlines the research process. It helps users discover and read research papers faster using chat and summaries, conduct comprehensive literature reviews, manage and organize references, enhance academic writing
💯 TechTok Recommends
We’ve tried it and it’s the real deal.
Find who need your product right now, by spotting buying signals hidden in job posts, news, LinkedIn, and other public sources with AI, and suggests relevant messaging to stand out. Start booking 3x meetings without adding SDRs.
The LLM observability platform for monitoring, debugging and improving your AI apps. Helicone is an open-source observability platform that provides a 1-line integration to access cost tracking, agent tracing, prompt management and more - get started for free.
D-ID Video Translate converts videos into multi langs instantly from a single upload. Our AI tool translates the text, clones the speaker’s voice, and perfectly lip syncs at the click of a button. PLUS, for a limited time the tool is FREE to D-ID customers!
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Unit tests but for performance. k6 is a modern load-testing tool built for developers and testers in the DevOps era. Like unit testing for performance. It provides allows writing tests as code, has a full-featured API, and supports multiple protocols. Also has a large extension ecosystem, with a free tier to Grafana cloud for test execution, metrics correlation, and data analysis.
What can you use this for? Test the reliability and performance of your systems, catch performance regressions and problems earlier.
LitServe is a fast, flexible, and enterprise-scale serving engine for AI models built on FastAPI. It provides features like batching, streaming, and GPU autoscaling, and is at least 2x faster than plain FastAPI.
What can you use this for? Deploy any AI model or service, including LLMs, classical ML, embedding servers, and multi-modal systems.
Brontes is a powerful blockchain analytics pipeline that transforms raw Ethereum data into a structured, analyzable format. It is built on top of Reth and enhances analysis with off-chain data, providing a modular framework to easily implement user-defined inspectors for custom analytics, addressing the challenge of overwhelming data and tedious preprocessing in blockchain research.
What can you use this for? Analyze blockchain data and and work with large-scale Ethereum data, conduct MEV research, develop DeFi protocols.
Repos to learn something new
A comprehensive 18-lesson course that teaches beginners how to build Generative AI applications. It covers the fundamentals of Generative AI, exploring and comparing LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications using Python and TypeScript code samples.
What can you use this for? Build chatbots, generate content, and explore Generative AI development.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
 | BMW is using Unity's game engine and cloud services to create new dimensions in the driving experience, including high-quality AR graphics, multiplayer capabilities, and AI enhancements that enable monetization and user acquisition for their mobile games. |
 | Amazon's Prime Day 2024 was its biggest shopping event ever, powered by AWS infrastructure that enabled record sales, including the use of over 250,000 AWS Graviton chips, 264 PiB of Amazon EBS storage, and billions of database transactions and API calls handled by services like Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, and CloudFront. |
