Products
Tools, products, and services discussed on The Build Podcast
Open Router is a project that enables routing requests based on cost and performance metrics.
Flora Fauna is a simplification layer that makes advanced tools like Comfy UI more accessible.
Langraph Cloud is a newly announced platform that Tom Spencer recently signed up for, offering cloud-based services. The insight focuses on his initial sign-up experience with the platform.
A demonstration of the Flora tool that inspired initial thoughts and discussion around new creative plugins.
Letta is a tool that both speakers have set up demos or test accounts for but have not deeply explored.
Tableau is a business intelligence and data visualization platform that enables users to connect to multiple data sources and create interactive, shareable dashboards and reports with real-time analytics.
The Surface Pro is a Windows-based 2-in-1 PC device that Cameron uses when he switches from a Mac.
Storybook is an open-source tool that serves as a living style guide for React component-driven design, enabling developers to publish and organize component libraries.
Compound is Groq’s new blazingly fast embeddable AI search and tool platform built on open-source GPT and Llama, offering web search and code execution capabilities through an A2B partnership.
VEO 3 is Google’s latest generative AI model for creating short videos up to 8 seconds long with native audio tracks including sound effects and dialogue. It is available via the Gemini Ultra subscription plan or through Vertex AI for enterprise customers.
Search Connector is an integration component that enables seamless connection and data exchange between different search systems and platforms, allowing unified querying and indexing across multiple search back-ends.
Grok 4 Model is the latest iteration of the Grok series, notable for achieving 100% accuracy on a benchmark.
The Google Gemini CLI is a command-line interface tool used to generate and analyze structured reports, enabling users to verify output quality efficiently.
O3 model
The O3 model can handle complex chain-of-thought debates but is noted to be very slow, often requiring manual refreshes or monitoring for progress.
MongoDB is a local NoSQL database used for storing and querying embedding vectors when running embeddings locally. It is recommended as the local data store for embedding persistence.
Google is promoting its AI mode as the default experience in certain regions like India, emphasizing its faster performance and hyper-relevant results compared to competitors.
Vercel Platform offers substantial capabilities for deploying and hosting web applications, exceeding initial expectations.
OpenAI Embeddings provides a vector embedding model accessible via API and requires a local data store setup, such as MongoDB, to store and retrieve generated embeddings.
3js
3js has recently gained significant attention, with demos shared on Twitter highlighting its rising popularity.
VEO
Tom assumed that VEO was open source because it’s available on Replicate, but hosting on that platform does not necessarily mean a project is open source.
Operator
OpenAI rolled out the Operator feature to enhance usability by addressing the main user complaint.
The OpenAI Agents SDK provides developers with tools to build, customize, and deploy AI-driven agents capable of advanced reasoning, planning, and tool use in conversational applications.
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