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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good Feedly Summary: The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses – Apache 2.0 – and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s own…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/25/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 The third Qwen model release week, following Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 on Monday 21st and Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct on Tuesday 22nd. Those two were both non-reasoning models – a change from the previous models in the Qwen 3 family which combined reasoning and non-reasoning in the same model,…

  • Cloud Blog: New G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell power AI, graphics, gaming and beyond

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-g4-vm-with-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New G4 VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell power AI, graphics, gaming and beyond Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of our new G4 VMs based on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server edition — the first cloud provider to do so. This follows…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/comma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text Feedly Summary: It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…

  • Cloud Blog: From LLMs to image generation: Accelerate inference workloads with AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-inference-updates-for-google-cloud-tpu-and-gpu/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From LLMs to image generation: Accelerate inference workloads with AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: From retail to gaming, from code generation to customer care, an increasing number of organizations are running LLM-based applications, with 78% of organizations in development or production today. As the number of generative AI applications…

  • Slashdot: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88%

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0113217/alibabas-zerosearch-teaches-ai-to-search-without-search-engines-cuts-training-costs-by-88?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alibaba Group’s “ZeroSearch” technique showcases an innovative approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to develop search capabilities without relying on external search engines, demonstrating significant cost…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Unveils Coding-Focused GPT-4.1 While Phasing Out GPT-4.5

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/14/1726250/openai-unveils-coding-focused-gpt-41-while-phasing-out-gpt-45 Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Unveils Coding-Focused GPT-4.1 While Phasing Out GPT-4.5 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s launch of the GPT-4.1 model family emphasizes enhanced coding capabilities and instruction adherence. The new models expand token context significantly and introduce a tiered pricing strategy, offering a more cost-effective alternative while…

  • Hacker News: Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/researchers-get-spiking-neural-behavior-out-of-a-pair-of-transistors/ Source: Hacker News Title: Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in neuromorphic computing and energy efficiency in AI, particularly through innovative use of silicon transistors to mimic neuronal behavior. This has substantial implications for…