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A working guide to the 2026 LLM evaluation stack: Ragas for RAG metrics, LightEval and OpenCompass for benchmarks, DeepEval in CI, and tracing for online eval.
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All-in-one desktop and Docker app for private LLM chat with your documents.
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Audio generation framework by Meta including MusicGen for text-to-music.
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Feature-rich web UI for Stable Diffusion with extensive extension ecosystem.
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3D Model Generation
Reconstructs 3D shape, texture, and layout of objects from a single cluttered real-world photo.
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Multi-agent framework for building and studying societies of communicating LLM agents at scale.
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Virtual human pose generation and animation from images.
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Open-source CLI and IDE tool for source-controlled AI code review checks enforceable in CI.
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Framework for building production-ready AI application services.
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High-performance numerical computing library by Google with auto-differentiation.
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Generates high-resolution textured 3D assets from images or text with separate shape and texture models.
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RateRoblox's research foundation model that generates 3D shapes from text prompts for game assets.
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