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Grok AI API Tutorial: Chat, Image, Video, Tool Calling, and Web Search

The xAI Grok API provides access to powerful frontier models, including the Grok 4 series, supporting chat completions (text + vision), image generation, tool calling (function calling and built-in tools like web search), and more advanced features. Quick Intro Sign up at https://x.ai/api. Generate an API key from the console. Install pip install xai-sdk. Set env var: export XAI_API_KEY="your_key_here". Models list: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models. I'll share some samples in Python.

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Optimizing Arm-Based Build Servers With AmpereOne CPUs

What Makes a Good Build Server? In modern cloud-native application development, Continuous Integration, with automated building and testing of software on every commit, has become a standard best practice. This typically involves maintaining a farm of build nodes, which can be physical devices, virtual machines, or containers, that can be provisioned on demand and retired once build tasks are completed. This guide aims to help you configure the ultimate build server for Ampere's Arm-based archit

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How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel

Jason McCreary joined the Laravel Creator Series to walk through how we used his Fast Laravel practices and Cloudflare to cache Laravel News, a high-traffic site whose content changes all day. The post How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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