Tag: llama
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ollama’s new app
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/ollamas-new-app/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ollama’s new app Feedly Summary: Ollama’s new app Ollama has been one of my favorite ways to run local models for a while – it makes it really easy to download models, and it’s smart about keeping them resident in memory while they are being used and…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now Feedly Summary: I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday – new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such as…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/glm-45/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Feedly Summary: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Another day, another significant new open weight model release from a Chinese frontier AI lab. This time it’s Z.ai – who rebranded (at least in English) from Zhipu AI a few months ago.…
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Cloud Blog: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/take-an-open-model-from-discovery-to-endpoint-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Developers building with gen AI are increasingly drawn to open models for their power and flexibility. But customizing and deploying them can be a huge challenge. You’re often left wrestling…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/timescope/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? Feedly Summary: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? New open source benchmark for evaluating vision LLMs on how well they handle long videos: TimeScope probes the limits of long-video capabilities by inserting several…
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Cloud Blog: 25+ top gen AI how-to guides for enterprise
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/top-gen-ai-how-to-guides-for-enterprise/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 25+ top gen AI how-to guides for enterprise Feedly Summary: The best way to learn AI is by building. From finding quick ways to deploy open models to building complex, multi-agentic systems, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of resources out there. To that end,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to run an LLM on your laptop
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/18/how-to-run-an-llm-on-your-laptop/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to run an LLM on your laptop Feedly Summary: How to run an LLM on your laptop I talked to Grace Huckins for this piece from MIT Technology Review on running local models. Apparently she enjoyed my dystopian backup plan! Simon Willison has a plan for…
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Cloud Blog: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/deepseek-r1-is-available-for-everyone-in-vertex-ai-model-garden/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden Feedly Summary: In our ongoing effort to provide businesses with the flexibility and choice needed to build innovative AI applications, we are expanding the catalog of open models available as Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings in…