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Using AI Agent Skills: Build an iOS Chat Messaging App With a Single Prompt
As developers, we typically spend time reading docs and tutorials, and watching YouTube videos to integrate APIs and SDKs to add specific functionality to apps and services. These integrations can now be completed much more quickly using AI Agent Skills. Agent Skills are sets of instructions, scripts, and reference documents that equip AI models to
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.
Scaling Real-Time Chat to 5 Million Users: Stream's Latest Benchmarks
Stream has achieved a leading industry benchmark in scaling real-time chat as-a-service, supporting 5 million concurrent connections in a single chat channel. This engineering achievement underscores Stream Chat's position as the preferred in-app chat provider for enterprise organizations hosting the world's largest online events. Stream's infrastructure currently powers messaging and activity feed experiences for more
Build a Marketplace Voice Shopping Agent with Kimi K2.5 and Vision Agents
Build a voice shopping concierge for a multi-seller marketplace using Kimi K2.5, Deepgram STT, and Vision Agents. Runnable Python, function calling, Stream WebRTC.
Together with Kai Sees an 11x Signup Lift Building on Stream
See how a four-person team built an AI companion app on Stream Chat, Video, and Activity Feeds, with an 11x signup lift since launch.
Integrate Local and Open-Source Core AI Models Into Stream Chat
Discover how to integrate and use local, free, and open-source Core AI models with Stream Chat.
Building a Live Shopping App with One-Shot AI
The design process behind one-shot generating VinylStream, a live shopping app for buying and selling vinyl - and why a good design document, not the fanciest model, is what makes AI app generation actually work.
5 Lessons from Building a Voice AI Prescription Agent
What we learned building a prescription-intake voice agent with Stream's Vision Agents SDK and AssemblyAI: five lessons for safety-critical AI agents.
Build On-Device Reply Suggestions with Apple's Foundation Models & Stream Chat
Build on-device suggested replies in a SwiftUI chat app with Apple's Foundation Models and Stream Chat. Generation runs entirely on the device: no token cost, no network round-trip.
Build a Voice Agent That Calls to Confirm Fraud Alerts
Build a Python voice agent with Vision Agents that places an outbound call to a cardholder, reads back a suspicious transaction, and either clears it or freezes the card - using Deepgram, an LLM, Cartesia, and Twilio.
Architecting Real-Time Moderation for Live Video
Live video removes the one thing every other moderation system relies on - time to think before content ships. This article covers the architecture for real-time moderation - a fast, shallow path that beats your delivery window, and a slower, deeper path that corrects the call after the fact.