Tag: Apache 2

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Significant new model release from Qwen, published yesterday without much fanfare. This is a follow-up to their April release of the full Qwen 3 model family, which included a Qwen3-235B-A22B model which could handle both reasoning and non-reasoning prompts (via a /no_think toggle).…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Secure your Express application APIs in 5 minutes with Cedar

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/secure-your-application-apis-in-5-minutes-with-cedar/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Secure your Express application APIs in 5 minutes with Cedar Feedly Summary: Today, the open source Cedar project announced the release of authorization-for-expressjs, an open source package that simplifies using the Cedar policy language and authorization engine to verify application permissions. This release allows developers to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3 Embedding

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/8/qwen3-embedding/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3 Embedding Feedly Summary: Qwen3 Embedding New family of embedding models from Qwen, in three sizes: 0.6B, 4B, 8B – and two categories: Text Embedding and Text Reranking. The full collection can be browsed on Hugging Face. The smallest available model is the 0.6B Q8 one, which…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/shisa-v2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM Feedly Summary: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM Leonard Lin and Adam Lensenmayer have been working on Shisa for a while. They describe their latest release as “Japan’s Highest Performing LLM". Shisa V2 405B is the highest-performing LLM ever…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/deepseek-aideepseek-r1-0528/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in January.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…