Stack Overflow is an online platform where developers and tech professionals can ask and answer technical questions. It operates as a community-driven Q&A forum, providing quick access to reliable information that helps users solve coding problems and improve productivity. The platform differentiates itself through multiple revenue streams, including advertising, recruitment services, and a subscription-based service for internal collaboration called Stack Overflow for Teams. The main goal is to facilitate knowledge sharing among developers, enhancing efficiency in the software development process.

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Former Stack Overflow executive Teresa Dietrich joins Invoca as Chief Technology Officer to accelerate AI strategy.

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Generative AI is having a dramatic impact on many industries, including software development.In a revealing snapshot of the global software development ecosystem, developer knowledge platform Stack Overflow is out today with a new report that exposes a nuanced interplay between AI and the coding community.Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey is based on responses from more than 65,000 developers across 185 countries. The survey offers key insights into the evolving tech landscape, focusing on gen AI and its impact on developers. Stack Overflow itself is no stranger to the world of gen AI. Stack Overflow has its own set of tools, including OverflowAI to help developers.Among the key findings in Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey:

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However, just a few months ago, Stack Overflow announced that it would be giving large language models (LLMs) full access to the site's considerable library of technical information.

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On Monday, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow's technical content with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant.

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Stack Overflow later softened its stance, launching its OverflowAPI suite to provide developers with assistance with coding issues.

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OpenAI partners with Stack Overflow to supercharge developer experience.

OpenAI partners with Stack Overflow to supercharge developer experience

Vector databases are all the rage, judging by the number of startups entering the space and the investors ponying up for a piece of the pie. The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and the generative AI (GenAI) movement have created fertile ground for vector database technologies to flourish.While traditional relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL are well-suited to structured data — predefined data types that can be filed neatly in rows and columns — this doesn’t work so well for unstructured data such as images, videos, emails, social media posts, and any data that doesn’t adhere to a predefined data model.Vector databases, on the other hand, store and process data in the form of vector embeddings, which convert text, documents, images, and other data into numerical representations that capture the meaning and relationships between the different data points. This is perfect for machine learning, as the database stores data spatially by how relevant each item is to the other, making it easier to retrieve semantically similar data.This is particularly useful for LLMs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, as it allows the AI chatbot to better understand the context of a conversation by analyzing previous similar conversations. Vector search is also useful for all manner of real-time applications, such as content recommendations in social networks or e-commerce apps, as it can look at what a user has searched for and retrieve similar items in a heartbeat. Vector search can also help reduce “hallucinations” in LLM applications, through providing additional information that might not have been available in the original training dataset.“Without using vector similarity search, you can still develop AI/ML applications, but you would need to do more retraining and fine-tuning,” Andre Zayarni, CEO and co-founder of vector search startup Qdrant, explained to TechCrunch. “Vector databases come into play when there’s a large dataset, and you need a tool to work with vector embeddings in an efficient and convenient way.”In January, Qdrant secured $28 million in funding to capitalize on growth that has led it to become one of the top 10 fastest growing commercial open source startups last year. And it’s far from the only vector database startup to raise cash of late — Vespa, Weaviate, Pinecone, and Chroma collectively raised $200 million last year for various vector offerings.Qdrant founding team

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Geliştiricilere yönelik soru-cevap sitesi Stack Overflow, Google'ın bulut bilişimi ekibiyle bir araya gelerek Overflow API adlı yeni bir API geliştirdi. Overflow API, Google'ın Gemini yapay zeka modelinin Stack Overflow bilgi tabanına erişmesini sağlıyor.Overflow API'nin detaylarıBöylece Google Cloud Console aracılığıyla geliştiriciler, Gemini'ın Google Cloud sürümünde kendilerine sunduğu önerileri doğrulayabilecek. Overflow API ile Gemini tarafından yapılan öneriler, Stack Overflow kaynaklarından alıntılanacak. Gemini, bu alıntıların kaynaklarını da yanıtlarında belirtecek.Şu anda geliştirme aşamasında olan Overflow API, Google'ın Nisan ayında gerçekleştireceği Cloud Next konferansında önizlemeye sunulacak. Overflow API, 2024'ün ilk yarısında ise geliştiricilerle buluşacak. Google ve Stack Overflow'un iş ortaklığının finansal detaylarının henüz açıklanmadığını da belirtelim

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Large language models (LLMs) rely on having lots of good-quality data on which to train. Regarding developers, few organizations have as much data as Stack Overflow, a leading online knowledge-sharing platform used by more than 100 million developers every month.Today Stack Overflow announced a partnership with Google Cloud to bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to millions of developers worldwide. A key part of the partnership involves integrating Stack Overflow’s knowledge base into Google Cloud’s AI tools like Gemini and the Cloud Console. This will give developers access to relevant answers, code snippets and documentation surfaced by Stack Overflow’s community. The partnership is indicative of a growing trend among LLM vendors, including OpenAI to strike up deals with content providers to help inform generative AI training efforts.The integration of the knowledge base is enabled via the new OverflowAPI, which in the future might also be used by other LLM providers.“Today Stack Overflow is launching a new program that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API,”  Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow, told VentureBeat. “The launch partner for this is Google, which will use Stack Overflow’s data to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and provide validated Stack Overflow answers in the Google Cloud console.”

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