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AWS Enters the Generative AI Race with Bedrock and Titan Foundation Models
AWS announced their entry into the generative AI race with the launch of Amazon Bedrock and Titan foundation models. Amazon aims to democratize access to generative AI technology, catering to customers across various industries and use cases. This groundbreaking development positions Amazon as a formidable competitor in the rapidly growing AI market.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Multimodal Chatbot Visual ChatGPT
Microsoft Research recently open-sourced Visual ChatGPT, a chatbot system that can generate and manipulate images in response to human textual prompts. The system combines OpenAI's ChatGPT with 22 different visual foundation models (VFM) to support multi-modal interactions.
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Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack
Slack recently described how it sends millions of messages daily in real-time across the globe. The company provides a comprehensive insight into its architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. It highlights the unique challenges posed by delivering real-time messages across different time zones and regions and how Slack's engineers designed the infrastructure to handle them.
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.NET MAUI 8 Preview 3: UI improvements, Memory Management, and NuGet Versioning
Microsoft has recently released the third preview of the .NET MAUI framework in .NET 8. This latest release includes UI improvements, focusing on memory management also. In addition, Preview 3 also brings support for NuGet package versions of the app. This means that developers will now have the ability to preview future builds and lock their applications to a specific version of .NET MAUI.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 21, MicroStream to Eclipse, Helidon, Piranha, Gradle 8.1
This week's Java roundup for April 10th, 2023 features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, Spring Framework and Spring Data updates, GraalVM Build Tools 0.9.21, MicroStream becomes an Eclipse Project, Micronaut 3.8.9, Helidon 4.0.0.Alpha6, Hibernate ORM 6.2.1, Micrometer Metrics 1.11.0-RC1, 1.10.6 and 1.9.10, Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-RC1 and 1.0.4, Piranha 23.4.0, Project Reactor 2022.0.6 and Gradle 8.1.
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Android Studio Flamingo Brings Live Edit for Composable, Improved Build Toolchain, and More
The latest stable release of Android Studio, dubbed Flamingo, brings Live Edit for Composable UIs, new app inspection features, updated IntelliJ, and more.
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Remote Development with JetBrains Rider
JetBrains provides access to Remote Development Beta. The tool works by locally running a thin client and connecting to the IDE backend which gives a fully functional user interface. It can be handled by JetBrains Rider or JetBrains Gateway. The workflow of the tool is smooth as editing is done locally and the JetBrains client synchronises changes with the backend.
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LocalStack 2.0: Open-Source Tool for Local Cloud Development Gets Significant Updates
The company LocalStack recently announced the general availability of LocalStack 2.0, an open-source tool for the local development and testing of cloud applications.
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HuggingGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Solve Complex AI Tasks with Hugging Face Models
A recent paper by researchers at Zhejiang University and Microsoft Research Asia explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as a controller to manage existing AI models available in communities like Hugging Face.
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From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native: Rosemary Wang at QCon London
Rosemary Wang, developer advocate at HashiCorp, delivered a presentation at QCon London that focused on five key considerations for technology practitioners looking to optimize the advantages of running platforms and applications in the cloud: adaptability, observability, immutability, elasticity, and changeability.
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Deno Improves Node.js Support: Built-in Modules, package.json, Dynamic Import and Worker Compilation
Recent releases of Deno (1.30, 1.31, and 1.32) make it easier for Node.js developers to transition to Deno projects. Deno 1.30 improves support for Node built-in modules and import maps. Deno 1.31 adds package.json support and includes the Node compatibility layer into the Deno runtime. Deno 1.32 adds deno compile support for web workers and dynamic imports.
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EventMesh Serverless Platform Promoted to Apache Top-Level Project
Apache EventMesh is a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven applications and last month has graduated to Top-Level Project of Apache Software Foundation. EventMesh uses a publish/subscribe pattern to enable serverless, event-driven capabilities for a wide variety of components and applications
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Startup Fermyon Releases Spin 1.0 for WebAssembly Serverless Applications
Fermyon recently announced Spin 1.0, an open-source developer tool and framework for developing serverless applications with WebAssembly (Wasm).
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Meta AI Introduces the Segment Anything Model, a Game-Changing Model for Object Segmentation
Meta AI has introduced the Segment Anything Model (SAM), aiming to democratize image segmentation by introducing a new task, dataset, and model. The project features the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and the Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset (SA-1B), which is the most extensive segmentation dataset to date.
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Twitter Open-Sources Recommendation Algorithm
Twitter recently open-sourced several components of their system for recommending tweets for a user's Twitter timeline. The release includes the code for several of the services and jobs that run the algorithm, as well as code for training machine learning models for embedding and ranking tweets.