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Open Vision Agents by Stream: Open Source SDK for Building Low-Latency Vision AI Apps
The 8 Best Platforms To Build Voice AI Agents
The 6 Best LLM Tools To Run Models Locally
Using Stream to Build a Livestream Chat App in Next.js
Q4 2025 Product Roadmap: What’s Next for Chat, Feeds, Moderation & Video
As 2026 approaches, our teams are laser-focused on delivering features that make Stream’s real-time communication APIs even faster, smarter, and easier to build with. From long-awaited analytics tools to real-time moderation capabilities, this quarter’s roadmap introduces big steps forward across all four products: Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video. Below is a detailed look at what’s
Stream Feeds Customers See +60% Increase to User Engagement & Retention
From Patreon to Peloton to Match Dating Apps, activity feeds are at the core of every modern digital experience. They keep content fresh, surface relevant updates, and transform passive users into active communities. Stream’s Activity Feeds API makes it easy to bring that same engagement engine into your app, without spending months building complex infrastructure
A Guide to Content Compliance
The digital landscape evolves every day; platforms are no longer judged solely by the quality of their features or the size of their communities. They are held accountable for the safety of the content they host. Governments worldwide are introducing sweeping regulations that raise the stakes for every online platform, from global social networks to
Partiful Doubles Retention with Stream Chat & AI Moderation
When the team at Partiful first discussed adding chat, they weren’t sure they wanted to do it at all. "We felt like messaging was a really hard space," recalls Amadou Camara, Product Engineer at Partiful. "There’s iMessage, there’s Messenger. We didn’t want to just build another platform for people to message when they can already
Open Vision Agents by Stream: Open Source SDK for Building Low-Latency Vision AI Apps
Vision Agents is a new, open-source framework from Stream that helps developers quickly build low-latency vision AI applications. The project is completely open-source and ships with over ten out-of-the-box integrations, including day one support for leading real-time voice and video models like OpenAI Realtime and Gemini Live. Text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and speech-to-speech models are also natively
How to Build a Snapchat Clone with Streaks Using Next.js, Firebase
Social messaging apps like Snapchat have unique ways of keeping users engaged daily while helping friends and loved ones stay connected. Features like real-time messaging and friendship streaks have become key elements of that experience. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Snapchat-style app using Next.js, Firebase, and the Stream Chat SDK. We’ll
How to Build a Secure React Native Chat App with End-to-End Encryption
Building secure chat applications goes beyond just sending and receiving messages; true privacy requires end-to-end encryption (E2EE). With E2EE, only the intended participants can read the conversation, while even the service provider remains blind to the content. In this guide, we’ll learn how to implement E2EE in a React Native chat app using Stream’s chat
Top 5 Real-Time Speech-to-Speech APIs and Libraries To Build Voice Agents
There are two ways to build conversational voice agents for enterprise and production use cases. Developers can use a real-time API or speech-to-speech (STS), that takes audio input from a user and sends it to a large language model (LLM) to return a voice output. Or they can use a turn-based architecture, which consists of