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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
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The 8 Best Platforms To Build Voice AI Agents

Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are great for non-trivial everyday personal assistive tasks. However, they are limited in providing accurate answers to complex questions, real-time information, handling turns, and user interruptions. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping your own voice AI agent! Try asking Siri about the best things
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The 6 Best LLM Tools To Run Models Locally

Running large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek Chat, ChatGPT, and Claude usually involves sending data to servers managed by DeepSeek, OpenAI, and other AI model providers. While these services are secure, some businesses prefer to keep their data offline for greater privacy. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping with the
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Using Stream to Build a Livestream Chat App in Next.js

I always wondered how to create the dynamic chat experience of livestreams, like those found on YouTube, but with an added convenience of allowing anyone to participate without logging in. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping livestream video. With Next.js and Stream, I was able to successfully create that experience.
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Grok TTS + Vision: Build a Healthcare Appointment Agent

This step-by-step guide will help you build an AI front-desk receptionist that interacts with patients through conversations, assesses their conditions, and advises whether to visit a doctor or seek online medical advice. When an agent can see the patient’s condition in real time, it can make a smarter recommendation, saving patients an unnecessary trip to

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The Architecture and Best Practices for Mobile App Stability

A frozen message composer. A feed that won’t load. A draft that vanishes. None of these register as crashes, but all of them lose users. Add real-time features, like chat, activity feeds, or live streaming, and your crash rate can look pristine in Crashlytics while your app silently drops messages and bleeds memory. This guide

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How to Build a Social Media App: A Technical Guide

Building a social media app means a single user action must propagate to potentially millions of other users in real time, while staying fast, safe, and cheap. Every feature touches every other feature. And the hard problems shift as you scale. At 100K users, it’s the database. At 1M users, it’s the fan-out strategies. At

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How to Build an App Like TikTok Shop (+ Turn Livestreams into Revenue)

Livestream shopping is changing how people discover and buy products online by combining real-time video with instant purchasing. Platforms like TikTok have popularised this model, enabling creators and brands to showcase products live while viewers shop without leaving the stream. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a TikTok-style livestream shopping application using Next.js.

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Developer’s Guide to Ultralytics YOLO: From Theory to Real-Time Pose Detection

In most of the world, if you’re YOLO’ing, you’re jumping out of a plane, asking out your future spouse, or eating gas station sushi. In vision AI, You’re Only Looking Once. Ultralytics’ YOLO is a real-time object detection framework with a simple premise: instead of scanning an image multiple times to find and classify objects,

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Build a Local AI Agent with Qwen 3.5 Small on macOS

Qwen 3.5 Small is a new family of lightweight, high-performance models from Alibaba (0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters) that are now available on Ollama. These models support multimodal input, native tool calling, and strong reasoning, all while running efficiently on laptops, Macs, and even mobile/IoT devices. In this demo, the agent runs completely locally

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Using Opus 4.6: Vibe Code a Custom Python Plugin for Vision Agents

Vision Agents has out-of-the-box support for the LLM services and providers developers need to build voice, vision, and video AI applications. The framework also makes it easy to integrate custom AI services — either by following a step-by-step guide or by vibe coding them using SoTA models. Let’s use Claude Opus 4.6 to create a

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Developer’s Guide to Building Vision AI Pipelines Using Grok

Grok tends to fly under the radar. While ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have found their footing in enterprise workflows and agentic toolchains, Grok remains mostly associated with X, which has overshadowed some genuinely strong capabilities. Chief among them is vision: Grok can understand and generate images, produce entire videos from a single prompt, and with

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