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

May 10, 2025

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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…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

May 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/anthropic-api-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Feedly Summary: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Anthropic’s web search (presumably still powered by Brave) is now also available through their API, in the shape of a new web search tool called web_search_20250305. You can specify a maximum…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

May 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/gemini-images-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Feedly Summary: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Gemini 2.0 Flash has had image generation capabilities for a while now, and they’re now available via the paid Gemini API – at 3.9 cents per generated…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

May 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

May 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it

Apr 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it Feedly Summary: Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it Relatively thin post from OpenAI talking about their recent rollback of the GPT-4o model that made the model way too sycophantic – “overly…

Slashdot: Cursor AI’s Own Support Bot Hallucinated Its Usage Policy

Apr 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/2031245/cursor-ais-own-support-bot-hallucinated-its-usage-policy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cursor AI’s Own Support Bot Hallucinated Its Usage Policy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a notable incident involving Cursor AI where the platform’s AI support bot erroneously communicated a non-existent policy regarding session restrictions. The co-founder of Cursor, Michael Truell, addressed the mistake…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

Apr 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

Apr 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…

Hacker News: LLM providers on the cusp of an ‘extinction’ phase as capex realities bite

Apr 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/llm_providers_extinction/ Source: Hacker News Title: LLM providers on the cusp of an ‘extinction’ phase as capex realities bite Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Gartner predicts a significant consolidation in the large language model (LLM) market, highlighting the challenges faced by providers due to high costs and competition. With generative…

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