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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Luke Kanies

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/luke-kanies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Luke Kanies Feedly Summary: I did find one area where LLMs absolutely excel, and I’d never want to be without them: AIs can find your syntax error 100x faster than you can. They’ve been a useful tool in multiple areas, to my surprise. But this is…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/a-closer-look-at-earth-engine-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from…

  • Cloud Blog: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/search-indexes-with-column-granularity-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance Feedly Summary: BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-prices.com

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/llm-prices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-prices.com Feedly Summary: llm-prices.com I’ve been maintaining a simple LLM pricing calculator since October last year. I finally decided to split it out to its own domain name (previously it was hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices), running on Cloudflare Pages. The site runs out of my simonw/llm-prices GitHub repository.…

  • Cloud Blog: How Looker’s semantic layer enables trusted AI for business intelligence

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/how-lookers-semantic-layer-enhances-gen-ai-trustworthiness/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Looker’s semantic layer enables trusted AI for business intelligence Feedly Summary: In the AI era, where data fuels intelligent applications and drives business decisions, demand for accurate and consistent data insights has never been higher. However, the complexity and sheer volume of data coupled with the diversity…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/phi-4-reasoning/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning Feedly Summary: Microsoft released a new sub-family of models a few days ago: Phi-4 reasoning. They introduced them in this blog post celebrating a year since the release of Phi-3: Today, we are excited to introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning – marking…

  • AWS News Blog: Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-nova-premier-our-most-capable-model-for-complex-tasks-and-teacher-for-model-distillation/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation Feedly Summary: Nova Premier is designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across tools and data sources. It has capabilities for processing text, images, and…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud WAN: Premium Tier & Verified Peering Provider for Reliable Global Connectivity

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/premium-tier-and-verified-peering-providers-enable-cloud-wan/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud WAN: Premium Tier & Verified Peering Provider for Reliable Global Connectivity Feedly Summary: Recently at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced our latest Cross-Cloud Network innovation: Cloud WAN, a fully managed, reliable, and secure solution to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures. Today, we continue our…