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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/new-openai-audio-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them? Feedly Summary: OpenAI announced several new audio-related API features today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They’re very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of accidental (or malicious) instruction…

  • Cloud Blog: Vertex AI Search and Generative AI (with Gemini) achieve FedRAMP High

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/vertex-ai-search-and-generative-ai-with-gemini-achieve-fedramp-high/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Vertex AI Search and Generative AI (with Gemini) achieve FedRAMP High Feedly Summary: In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, security remains paramount. Today, we reinforce that commitment with another significant achievement: FedRAMP High authorization for Google Vertex AI Search and Generative AI on Vertex AI.This follows our announcement…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the…

  • Slashdot: Nvidia Says ‘the Age of Generalist Robotics Is Here’

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/18/2312229/nvidia-says-the-age-of-generalist-robotics-is-here?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia Says ‘the Age of Generalist Robotics Is Here’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia announced the Isaac GR00T N1, an open-source, customizable foundation model aimed at revolutionizing humanoid robotics. The model features a dual-system architecture that enhances robot learning and behavior, facilitating more advanced robot…

  • Hacker News: The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI Realtime WebRTC API

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    Source URL: https://webrtchacks.com/the-unofficial-guide-to-openai-realtime-webrtc-api/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI Realtime WebRTC API Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation of OpenAI’s Realtime API using WebRTC in a practical project involving a Raspberry Pi. It provides insights into the challenges faced during the integration, the coding…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral Small 3.1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral Small 3.1 Feedly Summary: Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral Small 3 came out in January and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it’s multi-modal (images) and has an increased 128,000 token context length,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/olmo2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit Feedly Summary: mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit OLMo 2 32B claims to be “the first fully-open model (all data, code, weights, and details are freely available) to outperform GPT3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini". Thanks to the MLX project here’s a recipe that worked for me to run it on my Mac,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/notes-on-googles-gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…