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Issue #003 • May 15, 2024

News

  1. Vercel Functions are now powered by Rust
    Vercel Functions are now faster—and powered by Rust. Some of the features include: 30% faster cold starts, 80ms faster (average) and 500ms faster (p99) for larger workloads.

  2. Node.js v22 is now available
    Node.js 22 will enter long-term support (LTS) in October, but until then, it will be the "Current" release for the next six months. Highlights include require()ing ES modules, a WebSocket client, updates of the V8 JavaScript engine, and more!

  3. OpenAI Launched GPT-4o
    GPT-4o (Omni) is OpenAi's latest and greatest model and it is mindblowing. You should probably check-out the link above.

Google I/O Developer Keynote

Google IO, Google's annual conference happened this week! Here's a list of things from the developer keynote (Not the consumer one) that excited us the most. Read the rest of the updates here.

Fun fact: Google mentioned "AI" 120 times during the main keynote

AI

  1. New Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro with a 2 million context window. (And a heck of a lot more Gemini, Gemma and AI updates)

  2. Gemini Nano (A lightweight, on-device AI model) is available on chrome: Read More

Web Dev

  1. Speculation Rules API: Read More

  2. Gemini Powered Chrome Dev Tools insights: Read More

  3. View transitions API: Read More

Firebase

  1. Firebase now supports Postgres: https://firebase.google.com/docs/data-connect

  2. Firebase GenKit to build AI Apps: https://firebase.google.com/products/genkit

Developer Experience

  1. Project IDX (Google's code editor) is now in public beta

For a list of things announced at IO: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-i-o-2024-everything-announced-so-far/ and https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-io-2024-recap-making-ai-accessible-and-helpful-for-every-developer/



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