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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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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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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 and o3 models,
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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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Using Stream’s Firebase Extensions as a Server
In this tutorial, we’ll build a fully functioning iOS app that uses Firebase for authentication and Stream for in-app chat, without writing a single line of server code. Thanks to the power of Firebase Extensions, we can automate all the backend plumbing that would typically require custom infrastructure. With the Stream Firebase Extension, user creation
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Sendbird Migration Guide
Building in-app chat with Sendbird can be a fast way to launch messaging features, especially with its out-of-the-box components. But as your product grows and user expectations rise, you may start to feel boxed in. Performance starts to bottleneck. Customization hits a ceiling. And scaling gracefully becomes a challenge. That's where Stream comes in. As
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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. Try asking Siri about the best things to do with kids in a particular city or location. It won't provide an accurate answer
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Alpha Release: Activity Feeds v3
Apps use Stream's Activity Feeds API with hundreds to millions of users. Today, we're excited to share the third iteration of our Feeds API, Feeds v3, which builds on our scalability and expands our Activity Feeds API to include popular community features like for-you feeds, client-side SDKs, comments, activity expiration, and more—all while being 30%
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Feature Announcement: Moderation Rule Builder
Moderating user-generated content at scale is difficult, especially as harmful behavior patterns evolve. Rule Builder provides a new way to define complex moderation logic without writing a single line of code. What is Rule Builder? Rule Builder is a new dashboard feature within Stream's AI Moderation platform that lets you: Define moderation rules based on
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A Complete Guide to Audio and Voice Moderation
Imagine you're happily playing PUBG. The circle is closing; your team still has a chance of a chicken dinner, until you get sniped. Then it starts. A stream of toxic voice chat erupts from a teammate. Slurs and threats that destroy the match. You hit mute, but the damage is done. This scenario plays out
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MirrorFly Alternatives – Comparing the Top 8 Competitors
If you're building real-time communication into your app, you've likely come across MirrorFly. It's one of the few platforms offering both cloud and self-hosted SDKs for chat, voice and video, and activity feeds, making it a popular choice for teams with strict compliance, branding, or infrastructure requirements. But finding the right communication provider isn't easy.
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ShiftFlow Proves You Don’t Need to Build Chat — Even If You Know How
About ShiftFlow When Eddy Yang set out to build ShiftFlow, a modern time and attendance platform for field and trade businesses, he knew exactly what he should not do: build chat from scratch. Yang isn't just another SaaS founder with a big idea. In 2018, he led the in-app messaging team at Uber, building the
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