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The 6 Best LLM Tools To Run Models Locally

Running large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude usually involves sending data to servers managed by OpenAI and other AI model providers. While these services are secure, some businesses prefer to keep their data entirely offline for greater privacy. This article covers the top six tools developers can use to run and test LLMs
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October Monthly Release Round-Up

As this month comes to a close, we thought we'd recap all of the exciting new features and improvements we made across Stream Video and Moderation. Introducing the VP9 SVC Codec 🎥 We're excited to announce that VP9 SVC is now available in our JavaScript, React, and React Native SDKs. With this advanced codec, users can experience significant improvements in video reliability and performance, including
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Exploring Reasoning LLMs and Their Real-World Applications

LLMs have excelled in writing, coding, and problem-solving tasks and prompts based on the data sets they were trained with. However, these models fall short when used to solve complex puzzles because they respond with the information they were trained with and lack the ability to self-correct. Recent LLMs, like OpenAI's o1 models, have proven
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Build Your First Android and iOS Mobile App With Kotlin Multiplatform

Cross-platform development provides significant advantages, especially in mobile development, where Android and iOS operate on fundamentally different ecosystems. Developing native apps for each platform can be resource-intensive since it requires separate developers with expertise in different programming languages (Kotlin for Android and Swift/Objective-C for iOS). Managing two distinct codebases also increases development and maintenance costs
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Build an AI Assistant Using NodeJS

In this post, we will see how we can build a NodeJS server that will allow frontend chat SDKs to start and stop an assistant for a given channel in Stream Chat. Building polished AI assistants can be challenging. Features like streaming responses, table components, and code generation require complex implementation across SDKs and the
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How to Create an AI Assistant: A Dev's Guide

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly prevalent, and many developers are integrating various LLM providers, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others into their Stream Chat applications across multiple SDKs. To help developers get started and accelerate their development with Stream Chat and AI, we've created a platform-specific, step-by-step guide. To follow along, we
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Build an AI Assistant with React Native

This tutorial will demonstrate how easy it is to build an AI assistant with Stream React Native Chat SDK. While this tutorial features Anthropic and OpenAI APIs as the LLM provider, you can integrate any LLM service with Stream and still benefit from the same features, such as generation indicators, markdown support, tables, etc. No
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Build an AI Assistant with Flutter

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how easy it is to build an AI assistant for iOS using the Stream Flutter Chat SDK on both the client and server sides. For this example, we will use the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs as the LLM service, but you can use any LLM service with Stream Chat.
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Build an AI Assistant for iOS Using Swift

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how easy it is to create an AI assistant for iOS using Stream Chat. In this example, we will use the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs as our example LLM; however, developers are free to use whichever LLM provider they like and still benefit from Stream’s rich UI support for
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Build an AI Assistant for Android Using Compose

This tutorial guides you through building an AI assistant seamlessly integrated with the Stream Chat SDK for Jetpack Compose. You'll learn how to handle interactions on both the client and server sides by setting up and running your own simple backend. The AI assistant leverages Stream's edge network for optimal performance and uses APIs from
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Build an AI Assistant with React

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how easy it is to build an assistant integrated into Stream’s React Chat SDK and learn how to incorporate the interaction on both the client and server sides. We will use the Anthropic and OpenAI APIs as the out-of-the-box examples, but using this method, developers can integrate any LLM
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Harness the Power of Stream, Cronofy, and OpenAI for Team Collaboration

Geographically dispersed teams often have a hard time scheduling meetings that work for all participants. Human Resources departments also face this challenge when working with existing employees and job candidates alike. Employees have the benefit of a defined and somewhat uniform computing environment, job applicants are a whole different challenge. Each candidate uses whatever computer
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