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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

  • Slashdot: Google’s Gemini AI Will Get More Personalized By Remembering Details Automatically

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/2143233/googles-gemini-ai-will-get-more-personalized-by-remembering-details-automatically?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s Gemini AI Will Get More Personalized By Remembering Details Automatically Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google is enhancing its Gemini AI chatbot with a new update that allows it to automatically remember user preferences and past conversations, streamlining personalization without prompts. This includes a feature…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/llm-027/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling Feedly Summary: I shipped LLM 0.27 today, adding support for the new GPT-5 family of models from OpenAI plus a flurry of improvements to the tool calling features introduced in LLM 0.26. Here are the annotated…

  • Cloud Blog: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/stragglers-in-ai-a-guide-to-automated-straggler-detection/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Taming the stragglers: Maximize AI training performance with automated straggler detection Feedly Summary: Stragglers are an industry-wide issue for developers working with large-scale machine learning workloads. The larger and more powerful these systems become, the more their performance is hostage to the subtle misbehavior of a single component.…

  • Slashdot: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/025214/how-python-is-fighting-open-sources-phantom-dependencies-problem?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Python Software Foundation is addressing the “phantom dependencies” issue in software packages by introducing the Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) through Python Enhancement Proposal 770. This initiative enhances metadata accessibility, making it easier…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card Feedly Summary: I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite model. It’s still an LLM – it’s not a dramatic departure…