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GPT-3.5 Turbo Can Now Be Fine-Tuned for Improved Quality and Performance
OpenAI has made GPT-3.5 Turbo available to developers, with the added bonus of allowing them to customize the model to improve performance for their specific use cases. According to OpenAI, fine-tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo can even outperform base GPT-4 for certain tasks.
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Java News Roundup: Introducing Spring AI, Spring Modulith 1.0, Testcontainers Desktop
This week's Java roundup for August 21st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, Jakarta EE, BellSoft, Spring Modulith 1.0, Spring Boot, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Batch, Spring AI, Testcontainers, Open Liberty, Quarkus, MicroProfile Metrics and Telemetry, Micronaut, Groovy, Tomcat, Grails, JHipster Lite, Vert.x Pinot Client, Yupiik Fusion and SpringOne conference.
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Ngrok Starts Offering One Static Domain to All of its Free Users
To make it easier for developers to expose their local services to the Internet while developing them, ngrok is now providing them with the possibility to create and use one static domain for free, instead of relying on time-limited, random domains.
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Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio: Automated Lifecycles and Integrated Bot Debugging
The Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio allows .NET developers to build, debug, and release applications for Microsoft Teams. Its latest version introduces powerful capabilities, including automated Teams App lifecycles and integrated bot debugging via built-in tunneling within the Visual Studio environment.
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Fluid Framework 2.0 Alpha Features SharedTree Distributed Data Structure and Developer Tools
Microsoft is readying version 2.0 of their Fluid Framework for real-time collaboration. The available alpha and internal releases add a new object-oriented shared data structure and browser-based developer tooling.
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MetaGPT Leverages Human Collaboration Techniques for Multi-Agent-Based Software Engineering
Created by a team of researchers from Chinese and US universities, MetaGPT is a new LLM-based meta programming framework aiming to enable collaboration in multi-agent systems by leveraging human procedural knowledge to enhance robustness, reduce errors, and engineer software solutions for complex tasks.
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Grails 6.0 Released: Embracing Modern Java, Enhanced Micronaut Integration, and More
The Grails Foundation has released version 6.0 of Grails, delivering a minimal JDK 11 version; support for Spring Framework 5.3.28, Spring Boot 2.7.12, and Gradle 7.6.1; the debut of Grails Forge UI, a starter project similar to Spring Initializr, and others; and enhanced integration of the Micronaut Framework.
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Redis 7.2 Now Available with Scalable Search, Auto Tiering, Triggers and Functions
Redis Inc recently announced the unified release of Redis 7.2, which includes several new features like auto-tiering, native triggers, and a preview of an enhanced, scalable search capability that provides increased performance for query and search scenarios, including vector similarity search (VSS).
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.NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 7 with Keyboard Accelerators, Fixes and Improvements
.NET MAUI is now available in .NET 8 Preview 7. This version introduces keyboard accelerators and more bug fixes and enhancements. This is the final familiarisation release of .NET 8. With this announcement came further community concerns about the framework.
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LMSYS Org Releases Chatbot Arena and LLM Evaluation Datasets
Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS Org) recently released Chatbot Arena, a comparison platform for large language models (LLMs), where users can pick the better response from a pair of chatbots. LMSYS also released a dataset containing conversations from the Arena as well as a dataset of human annotations of results from evaluating LLMs on the MT-Bench benchmark.
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Vector Engine for Amazon Opensearch Serverless Now in Preview
AWS announced the preview release of vector storage and search capability within Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. The capability is intended to support machine learning augmented search experiences and generative AI applications.
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Golem Unveils a Resilient Computing Platform for Serverless Workers with WebAssembly Component Model
Recently Golem released its flagship product Golem Cloud, a durable computing platform allowing developers to build and deploy long-running, stateful serverless workers that are resistant to failures, upgrades, and updates. The product is currently in developer preview.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 RC1, Apache Camel 4.0, Payara Platform, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 14th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, Apache Camel 4.0.0, Payara Platform and point and milestone releases of: Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Modulith, Apache Tomcat, Micronaut, Micrometer Metrics and Tracing, Project Reactor, Hibernate Search, Infinispan, JHipster React Native, JBang, Piranha, Byte Buddy, JobRunr, Arquillian and Gradle.
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NuGet 6.7 Announced with Enhanced Security Features
The NuGet team announced NuGet 6.7, an update that introduces a set of advanced security features. These enhancements span from updated package source mapping to the integration of vulnerability APIs, updated package version dropdowns, and the addition of warning messages to tackle trust chain issues.
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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 with .NET and C++ Development Features, Performance Improvements, and More
Visual Studio 2022 17.7 is now generally available. It brings plenty of features and improvements to create a high-level developer experience, based on community feedback. There are new features within .NET and C++ development as well as these ones that improve overall performance. The latest version is available for download.