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Vision Agents v0.5.0 Release: Local Hardware I/O, Anam Avatars, and Faster Deepgram TTS
It's been a busy period since our last release, and now it's time to share Vision Agents v0.5.0: a step toward making production-grade multimodal AI agents easy to build and deploy. While previous versions laid the groundwork for real-time voice, video, and Vision Agents, v0.5.0 focuses on stability at scale and even more expressive
Stream's AI Moderation Roadmap: What We're Building Next
Moderation has quietly become one of the hardest problems in modern apps. As chat, feeds, and real-time video interactions expand globally, the challenge isn't just catching bad content; it's doing it in real time, across languages, with context, and at scale. At Stream, we've been investing deeply in solving that problem. This roadmap is a
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.
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
MyOutDesk Cut Chat Code 50% Moving Off PubNub
When PubNub overages and missing messages hit a 2,500-person workforce, MyOutDesk moved to Stream Chat in under two weeks and cut its chat code in half. Here is what happened.
How Stream Chat Authentication Works: User Tokens, Refresh, and Secret Handling
Stream Chat authentication works by having your backend sign short-lived JWTs with your API secret. This guide covers the four credentials in play, how to wire token refresh with a tokenProvider, and why your API secret must never leave the server.
Real-Time Voice AI For Phone Support In 2026
A phone support voice AI needs to react in real time - start replying within 300ms, stop the moment a caller interrupts, and handle the telephony edge before the model sees the audio. This guide covers the full pipeline - streaming STT, TTS, turn detection, barge-in, and the latency budget that keeps calls feeling natural.
Warm Transfer vs Cold Transfer: Designing AI-to-Human Escalation in Real-Time Voice Systems
Warm transfer carries the conversation's context to the human agent - the summary, the intent, the caller's mood - so the human can pick up mid-story. Cold transfer carries only the audio, and the caller starts over. Building warm transfer in a real-time voice system means solving three problems when to escalate, how to generate structured context in parallel with the live call, and how to hand off the audio session without breaking it.
Build a Stream Chat App With Xcode 26.3's Coding Agent
Xcode 26.3 ships with a built-in coding agent backed by Claude. Pair it with Stream's Agent Skills and you can build a working SwiftUI chat app from a single goal-level prompt - channel list, message thread, and composer - then iterate without leaving the IDE. This is a build log of exactly that, including the WebSocket race condition the agent diagnosed by reading the SDK source.
How to Build a Background Removal Tool with Segment Anything & Vision Agents
A step-by-step guide to building a real-time background removal tool with SAM 2, YOLO, and Vision Agents. Runs on a CPU, no GPU required.
How Subito Migrated 10M+ Users Off Legacy Chat Without Downtime
Subito, Italy's largest re-commerce marketplace, moved buyer-seller messaging for 10M+ users onto Stream and now automates 99.5% of moderation, without standing up a chat infrastructure team. Here is how the build-vs-buy decision, migration, and trust and safety automation played out.
How a Top-5 Gaming Publisher Migrated Off Community Sift
A top-5 mobile gaming publisher had six months to migrate 750M+ players off Community Sift with no drop in moderation quality across a dozen languages. Here is how the RFP, large-scale testing, on-site workshop, and shadow-testing migration to Stream AI Moderation actually played out.