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Massive week for agent launches and funding. Here is everything that you need to know.🧵 1/ Mendable released teams, 2x rate limits, map endpoints, a more reliable and developer friendly API, and more. Nicolas Silberstein Camara + Caleb Peffer https://lnkd.in/gv9x8wmf 2/ Salesforce Marc Benioff + Clara Shih Agentforce launch. https://lnkd.in/gd2JTpf3 3/ Adept Workflow Language (AWL) launched to simplify the creation of AI workflows. https://lnkd.in/gkssiYUa 4/ Cohere launched an improved version of Command R/R+. It has a performance boost on agentic tasks. Sandra Kublik, Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Jay Alammar https://lnkd.in/gcRZqF3E 5/ Magic launched a 100 million token context window. That’s 10 million lines of code, or 750 novels + a recent investment of $320 million https://lnkd.in/gbtVmVxU 6/ Bland AI announced $22M in funding.  Their phone agent can talk in any language, handle millions of calls, and never hallucinate. Isaiah N. Granet https://lnkd.in/g99-QgHt 7/ Jack Altman announced $4.4M in funding for Retell AI https://lnkd.in/gg_uXhtd 8/ $2.6M in funding for Agency! We’re building AI agents that are safe, reliable, and accessible to everyone. Alex Reibman shared how thousands of developers, startups, and enterprises rely on Agency every day. https://lnkd.in/gSbfx_2a 9/ Softgen AI has made building websites easier than ever! Marko O. Kraemer https://lnkd.in/gc_ViK3w 10/ An agent that will roast your website built with Composio, Agency, Browserbase, Ollama https://lnkd.in/gC-3yW9e 11/ AI Newsletter Summarizer: Karan Vaidya https://lnkd.in/gYzfsAxb 13/ MattVidPro AI about Lindy. https://lnkd.in/gR3xiCu2 14/ Mert Deveci ✊ shared a video I did with David Ondrej about the best AI Agents https://lnkd.in/ggKtB_Gv 15/ Abacus.AI AI showed off its software planning agent. https://lnkd.in/gq6FfXKR 16/ Angela Strange from a16z "Every white collar role will have an AI co-pilot. Some roles will be near fully automated with AI agents.” https://lnkd.in/gZpbMexe 17/ Klarna's AI support agent does the work of 700 employees, reducing average resolution time from 11 minutes to 2 minutes. https://lnkd.in/gq-ZZjmg 18/ Box CEO Aaron Levie on why AI agents are a $1 trillion opportunity https://lnkd.in/gujCcgAR Follow Agency and Adam Silverman (Hiring) for all things AI agent-related. Last weeks updates: https://lnkd.in/gkcVwyrX

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Sidewalk Labs (Part of Google), another showcase of Canadian politicians bending over for a big US corp, with ZERO tangible results 💩 Roxana and I attended a "private investor demo" session in 2019. A block of wood was passed among the audience, supposedly the NEXT BIG BREAKTHROUGH in urban development! Demo concluded, by observing a piece of wood! Building blocks of future skyscrapers! The promise? With this, Google will build a "Smart City" for us, the peasants of Toronto, in Queens Quay 🏖️🏢 Sidewalk Labs' website now points to a newer Google scam, it reads: "Build Sustainably with Google Earth"! Bait and switch, but let enough time pass so no one remembers 🤢 https://lnkd.in/gd3B-a6m Guess now the investors and Ontario Government | Gouvernement de l’Ontario have shit loads of these wooden blocks, ready to shove up somewhere, to find a use for! All because the name "Bloomberg" sounds authoritative enough to our ears? Surely that's capital well spent, instead of investing in local talent! 🤔 Will Canada's tech ecosystem ever crawl out of Silicon Valley's shadow, and stand on its own? ⌚👀⛔

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Today The Guild Software is acquiring Stellate We are very pleased to announce that we have acquired Stellate GraphQL CDN - the leading #GraphQL Caching solution. The Stellate team has created an innovative platform, industry leading solution for GraphQL Caching, fulfilling GraphQL’s full potential for caching, enabling its superiority over all REST based caching solutions. The Guild Software’s goal - providing an open platform with everything a developer needs to take GraphQL into production, fits perfectly with Stellate’s superb execution. That’s why acquiring Stellate and integrating it into our GraphQL Hive Open Platform makes so much sense. We’ve always prided ourselves on being the provider the GraphQL community can count on for the long term. In the past, we’ve taken maintainer-ship of a number of popular solutions, to give them new life and improve them to the be industry leading solutions: * We’ve taken ownership of the famous GraphQL Tools library from Apollo GraphQL - improving it for many years and recently integrating it into our Hive Gateway - our open source gateway that fully supports Apollo Federation. * We’ve taken ownership of GraphQL Yoga from Prisma - making it the leading Subgraph and GraphQL server for the JS ecosystem. * We’ve done the same with many other libraries and continuously support official GraphQL Foundation projects like GraphiQL, GraphQL-HTTP, GraphQL’s official website and many more. We offer GraphQL Hive to our users - a fully featured, complete 360˚ GraphQL platform that includes a schema registry, analytics platform, Federated Gateway - available either as a hosted platform or as a fully open-source, self-hosted solution under the MIT license. And now with an industry leading global GraphQL Edge Caching CDN! Like all of our other projects, this is just the start! We are looking to hear from you, where you wish us to take Stellate and our platform in the future. Existing Stellate users, we are here for you. Reach out directly and schedule a call with us, we want to learn about your current GraphQL experience and how the existing solutions can work better for you. To everyone else, try @ Stellate today, try Hive today and let us know what you wish the future of GraphQL to look like. See you all at GraphQL Conf! https://lnkd.in/ehSBbPJd

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Small Shopify history: The story of Shopify began in 2004 when three friends from Canada—Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake—decided to open an online snowboard shop. Tobias, a programmer by training, took on the task of developing the website but soon encountered that the e-commerce platforms available at the time did not meet their needs. They were either too limited in functionality or too complicated to set up and manage. Dissatisfied with the available solutions, Tobias decided to create his own platform that would be both powerful and easy to use. This decision led to the development of proprietary software that would allow easy launching and managing of online stores. The project took two months to complete, and ultimately, the new system not only satisfied their own needs but also showed potential for other entrepreneurs. In 2006, after successfully launching their online store, they founded Shopify—a platform that made creating and managing online stores accessible to anyone who wanted to sell products online. Initially, Shopify primarily attracted small businesses, but over time it became popular among large companies due to its scalability and flexibility. Over the years, Shopify has grown from a startup to a leading global e-commerce platform, serving hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide and having a significant impact on the global economy. If you want your own Shopify store, just DM me 😉 #shopify #history #ecommerce #splitdev

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Introducing LangSmith Evaluation Helper: A New OSS Tool for LLM Development! We're thrilled to announce the release of our new Open Source Software (OSS), the LangSmith Evaluation Helper! This innovative library is designed to streamline the development and evaluation of Large Language Model (LLM) applications, making it easier for developers to enhance user experiences through efficient prompt tuning. 🔍 Key Features: ・Simplified interface for evaluating and executing prompts ・Parallel execution of input datasets ・Customizable evaluation functions ・Support for multiple model executions With the rise of Generative AI, the need for effective LLM app development tools has never been greater. LangSmith Evaluation Helper is here to assist developers in navigating this complex landscape, ensuring better outputs and smoother experimentation processes. By open-sourcing this tool, we aim to empower the LLM development community and contribute to the broader LangChain ecosystem. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this tool can help optimize your workflow and improve your application's performance. Check out the LangSmith Evaluation Helper on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gAzSFn2T Together, let's push the boundaries of what's possible in the world of AI and beyond! #GaudiyInc #LangSmithEvaluationHelper #LLM #OpenSource #AI #TechInnovation #Web3 #FanNation #GenerativeAI #PromptTuning #CommunityDevelopment

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Some conversations here about tools and technologies seems a bit short term to me. A couple of years ago people would complain about GraphQL (there's a bigger reason why the sudden hype against GraphQL started, but I'll won't cover it today...) A popular point was around GraphQL Codegen as being hard to setup and slow. But at The Guild Software we think long term... Since than, GraphQL Codegen been worked on and improved daily (continuously for almost 10 years now....) Presets for client and server were introduced to make it extremely easy to setup. And with the latest release by Eddy Nguyen, the new server present is now: * ~50% faster in medium-large codebases * Supports Apollo Federation much better My ask of you all is to keep bringing us real feedback If you say GraphQL is bad/hard - tell us exactly why, and please make sure you use the latest and greatest of our tools before you do....

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Toronto, get ready for us! Five years ago, Paul Veen and I visited Shopify Unite in this amazing city. This June, we're thrilled to be back to share our agency's journey with the community: "From Struggle to Strength: Surviving the Challenges of Scaling at Ask Phill". During this talk, we'll give you a sneak peek behind the scenes and share our entrepreneurial learnings, challenges, and strategies to prepare for them. Since our return from China in 2016, building Ask Phill has been a rollercoaster with ups and downs. Now, eight years later, we are leading the European Shopify ecosystem with a team of over 60 specialists who live and breathe Shopify and commerce. We've witnessed seismic shifts in the ecosystem, from Native to Headless and back again, and from pre-COVID to post-COVID. Shopify has grown from being the new kid on the block for smaller brands to becoming a global market leader, targeting the largest enterprises worldwide. We've been all-in on Shopify for good reason—while brands are increasingly moving toward Shopify, I believe the wave is still only building. However, the future is uncertain and always evolving. It's crucial to be prepared with your agency or brand to navigate these changes successfully. Get ready for some real talk about the highs and lows of growth, including a nail-biting moment when we faced a big setback. But fear not, we emerged stronger, streamlining our operations into a robust entity. Furthermore, we'll share insights into transitioning from a founder-led venture to a management-led enterprise, granting the co-founders the bandwidth to guide our team toward new horizons. In our concise 20-minute session, expect a blend of real-world anecdotes and actionable advice covering sales strategies, community cultivation, and organizational refinement. It's a pragmatic playbook tailored for partners at every stage, ready to propel their growth aspirations forward. Shopify Edisions.dev Date: 25th June, 2024 Location: Enercare Centre, Toronto Link: https://www.editions.dev/ If you're planning to visit as well, hit me up so we can have a catch up!

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This Saturday FinUA is hosting workshops at Junction! One important task FinUA uses to streamline operations is *tagging* user messages. This helps in organizing, prioritizing and distributing them to experts who can help with them. Currently, this is a manual process. Recently, autoregressive Large Language Models have emerged as flexible tools for quickly prototyping NLP applications. Their combined language understanding, in-context learning and open-ended text generation capabilities make them extremely flexible tools for this purpose. One of the FinUA tech volunteers will give a workshop about how we leverage LLMs in real life. In this workshop, you will use an autoregressive Large Language Model to tag messages, by calling the model from Python code. The goal is not to create a perfect tagging system but to get a feel for how to develop with LLMs and what kinds of limitations one might encounter. See you soon! https://lnkd.in/dKNbXPwD

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Supabase is making it easy for anyone to create and share Foreign Data Wrappers with the Postgres Community How? With WebAssembly. For example: when you create a WASM wrapper, anyone can install it in their Postgres database. You can create a FDW for literally anything - even something like Google Sheets (skip to 8:37 in the video for a demo) Check out all the details here ↓ https://lnkd.in/dn8jr-nr

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We managed to cut down the infrastructure cost for a client utilizing proxy resources for web scraping from ~$9,000 to ~$5,000 /month through Scrape.do 📣 Unaware that you may be consuming your team's time inefficiently with web scraping? Try our system and see how swiftly we can resolve all your issues while optimizing costs.

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In my last post, we explored how the SaaS industry is leading AI adoption. Today, let’s take a closer look at how Shopify is putting AI to work in the world of e-commerce. Shopify is empowering retailers to build intelligent, dynamic storefronts that truly "get" their customers. By integrating AI across various facets of the platform, they are making it easier for retailers to create personalized, relevant shopping experiences that adapt to customer needs in real time. Here’s how Shopify’s AI capabilities are reshaping online retail ⬇ 1️⃣ 𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: By analyzing data like browsing habits and purchase history, Shopify allows retailers to create highly personalized experiences. This means that each shopper feels like the store was curated just for them – making the journey smoother, more intuitive, and more enjoyable. 2️⃣ 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Shopify’s recommendations go beyond the standard “similar products.”By comparing similar customer profiles and purchase patterns, Shopify’s AI can predict what customers are likely to be interested in next, driving more effective cross-selling and upselling. 3️⃣ 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬: With AI-powered customer profiles, Shopify enables retailers to create marketing campaigns that resonate. By leveraging past interactions and behavior, retailers can reach customers with the right message at the perfect moment, boosting engagement and conversions. 4️⃣ 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: AI isn’t just for personalization; it’s also a key player in protecting customers. By monitoring transactions in real time, flagging suspicious activity and preventing fraud they provide an essential layer of protection. 5️⃣ 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: By leveraging predictive analytics, Shopify equips retailers with insights on emerging trends and demand patterns. This allows them to manage inventory more effectively, manage stock levels, and prepare for the future. 6️⃣ 𝟐𝟒/𝟕 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: Shopify Magic includes AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants that offer responsive, around-the-clock support. These AI tools handle routine queries, guide customers to relevant products, and provide a seamless shopping experience. -------------------------------------------------------- The potential of AI reaches far beyond Shopify or SaaS alone. Whether in e-commerce, healthcare, finance, or any industry for that matter, AI opens new doors for creating meaningful, responsive experiences. Interested in exploring how AI can redefine your business? Let’s connect. #saas #ecommerce #aiconsulting

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Ever wondered how to bring Shopify and Softr together to create something amazing? 🤔 I recently wrote about building a customer support tool by integrating Shopify with Softr using REST APIs. And let me tell you, Transformers are the real MVP here—they don’t just smooth the process, they make it possible! 🚀 If you're using Shopify and diving into the No-Code world, this post is for you! Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with integrations. 💬 👉 https://lnkd.in/g2CQb7yS #Shopify #Softr #APIs #NoCode #CustomerSupport #Transformers

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Making Seamless Page Transitions with the View Transitions API – This Dot Labs https://buff.ly/3WFelEB What is the View Transitions API?The View Transitions API is a new browser feature that allows developers to more easily create animated transitions between pages and views, similar to how mobile apps have transitions when navigating between pages.Adding view transitions to your application can reduce the cognitive load on your users and make the experience feel less inconsistent. One great thing about view transitions is that they can be used by both SPAs (single-page applications) and MPAs (multi-page applications) alike!Source: Making Seamless Page Transitions with the View Transitions API – This Dot Labs (https://buff.ly/3YCBmdM)

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Excited to share that Humanloop’s LLM evals platform is now generally available! This is the same platform that is: • Used by Duolingo, Gusto, Vanta, Fundrise and Apollo to accelerate AI product development • Responsible for tens of millions of AI generations per week • Was named by Gartner as an Emerging Leader for Emerging Market Quadrant for Generative AI Engineering in the 2024 We've raised $8M to accelerate enterprise AI adoption ⬇

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18% of all folks who engaged with the Supabase project, made a contribution somewhere in open source. On top of that, they average about 32 unique open-source contributors weekly. We are standing on some business at OpenSauced, shipping faster than we are announcing publicly (we will fix that announcement cadence soon). In this video, I walk through some new insight features of the project. Let me know if you find it useful. #opensource #insights

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Hello network! I am seeking your referral. If you know anyone struggling to develop an app or software due to the lack of a CTO, tech co-founder, or funding, please share my contact with them. At XIPE, we take a radically different approach to software development compared to agencies or software factories. Our model is based on decentralization, collaboration, and solid engineering principles, which helps startups reach the market faster, in an affordable way, and with a better product. If you know someone, share my contact! #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #Engineering #tech #startup.

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My love letter to Canadian tech 🍁: here's how we unlock our true potential. After building companies in both Canada and the US, I've realized something about our startup ecosystem: We're sitting on a gold mine of talent that we're not fully unleashing It's not about ability – we have some of the brightest minds in tech. It's about creating an environment where founders feel empowered to swing for the fences. Here's what needs to change: //1. We need more investors willing to bet on potential rather than perfect data + sure bets. Typically when early-stage founders pitch in the US, investors focus on the founder’s capabilities and dreams. In Canada, investors (who often have insane leverage) require more data and less risk. Without apt funding and support, the Canadian way often creates "zombie companies" – stuck between survival and scale. //2. We need experienced founders actively mentoring the next generation. Not just government grants. We need networks of operators who have been there before. Ideally with an incredible outcome and willing to bet on the next generation. Real mentorship from people who've taken the hits and lived to tell about it. The US has this in spades – it's time we expand beyond siloed pockets of this in Canada. //3. We need to celebrate and amplify our success stories more publicly. Success breeds and inspires success. I remember when I first pitched to VCs in the US – they weren't just betting on me, they were betting on a pattern they'd seen work before. Same with founders who see people just like them take the unconventional path and take risk. We need a foundational, mindset shift to celebrating and supporting startups in Canada. //4. We need to stop rewarding safe bets and start celebrating big swings. Stop optimizing for base hits. Start celebrating home runs. The talent is here. The ambition is here. We just need to build the cultural infrastructure that makes big swings feel possible. // I've seen both sides of this story. And I'm more optimistic than ever about Canadian tech. Canada will always be home. To every Canadian founder reading this: Your ambitions aren't too big. Big outcomes are achieveable. The next wave of iconic tech companies can be built in Canada. But first, we need to unleash it. #startups #canada #entrepreneurship #tech

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