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Tech Olympics 🥇, Updates from Meta & Mistral 🆕, Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator 🎻
Today's TechToks: New AI model versions for Llama, Mistral and Sam, Get OpenAI image generator for free, Design patterns on Unity, useful AI products & repositories, and more!
TechTok by João Martins
July 31, 2024
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Today's Picks🍒
🧠 Meta updates flagship LLM and image segmentation models.
🌀 Mistral Large 2 updates.
🎥 YouTube’s efforts to stop Ad Blockers.
🏅 From MongoDB Engineering: Envisioning a Tech Olympics.
📘 From Unity Engineering: Updated Ebook on design patterns and SOLID principles.
🖼️ From HuggingFace Spaces: OpenAI text-to-image but free and no-login.
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
🎬 Netflix’s workflow orchestrator.
📲 Cross-platform AirDrop alternative.
📧 Email Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) explorer.
🤩 A community hub of awesome things.
🔥 Products of the Week
📤 Customized email campaigns for outbound B2B sales teams.
📚 AI organizer for anything you find interesting on the internet (bookmarks, links, files).
➕ And 3 more products to summarize X spaces, make valuable TikTok advertising, and automate video creation.
🧐 Daily Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Meta recently released new versions for their AI models.
Llama 3.1, their state-of-the-art LLM, was the world's largest up to it's release date with 405B parameters. Here are some benchmarks.
SAM 2, for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images and videos. It can identify the boundaries of an object, even for things it has not seen previously.
YouTube has intensified its efforts to thwart ad blockers by embedding ads directly into video streams, leading to issues like black screens for users with ad blockers. This strategy aims to drive subscriptions to YouTube Premium but has inadvertently encouraged more reliance on ad-blocking solutions.
Mistral AI released a new version of their flagship LLM, Mistral Large 2. Mistral is notable in coding tasks, competing with far larger models despite having only 123 billion parameters.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
💯 10xBeast
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TikTok advertisement spy tool for trends & revenue growth. Identify hot products and gain insight on your competitor’s ad strategies, with a free ad library.
Online AI video editor that turns your links or media assets into viral videos. Automates the creation, editing, and enhancement of videos, powered by Youtube, Tiktok, & Facebook ads library.
🗃️ Beloga
Capture anything you find interesting and Beloga will organize it. Collect links, notes and files, and use a search engine to find them. Thoughtfully designed with neurodiversity and inclusivity in mind.
Transform Twitter Spaces into text with summaries, outlines, highlights, and multi-language support. Discover top live Spaces and influential hosts, download for free, and explore our Library to expand your knowledge.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Maestro is Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator. Highly scalable and general-purpose, it schedules and manage thousands of workflows and millions of jobs daily, handling spikes in traffic with strict SLOs. Here’s an official engineering blog post on how it works.
What can you use this for? Manage pipelines for Machine Learning model training, AB testing, moving data between different storages.
LocalSend is a open-source and cross-platform app alternative to AirDrop. It enables secure file and message sharing between nearby devices, regardless of internet connection, over a local network by using a secure REST API and HTTPS encryption.
What can you use this for? Share files and send messages without exposing your phone number, communicate securely between nearby devices.
Mosint is an automated email OSINT tool consolidating numerous services to inquire about target emails. Capabilities include checking for social media accounts and searching related emails. Most services require an API key, except ipapi, which provides more information about the domain.
What can you use this for? Check if your passwords have been leaked, if your company data has been breached, validate emails.
Repos to learn something new
Awesome is a collection of lists covering a wide range of platforms, programming languages, and topics.
What can you use this for? Explore a wild variety of things, like stock resources you can use, discover tools, and learning resources.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
This blog post envisions a Tech Olympics: hosted in a growing tech hub like Vietnam, highest digital economy growth in Southeast Asia in 2022.
An e-book on design patterns and SOLID principles, recently updated with more patterns and examples like the much-requested databinding. It has a Unity 6 sample project demonstration here, and a YouTube tutorial series here.
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🤗 Hugging Face - Space of the Week
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Generate images from text with a model similar to OpenAI’s Dall-E 3, but for free and without login. This text-to-text prompt generator model is recommended for finding or perfecting prompts.
Generated with DALL•E 3 XL v2
What can you use this for: Generate drawings and photos for your presentations, sketching brainstorm concepts, and generate images for image-to-video or image-to-image models.
