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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Shabie’s blog: Let the kaleidoscope turn

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    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/07/31/let-the-kaleidoscope-turn.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Let the kaleidoscope turn Feedly Summary: “Any good classifier knows that in the process of classification, information about variety is lost while information about similarities is gained.” – Joseph Tainter AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the limitations of traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in…

  • The Register: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/meta_ai_investments/ Source: The Register Title: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about Feedly Summary: Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge Believe it or not, Meta’s AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 —…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/updates-to-claude/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude Feedly Summary: Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don’t do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps – neither of these releases came…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

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    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…

  • Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Using LLMs as a reverse engineering sidekick

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/using-llm-as-a-reverse-engineering-sidekick/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Using LLMs as a reverse engineering sidekick Feedly Summary: LLMs may serve as powerful assistants to malware analysts to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and provide actionable insights during malware analysis.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth analysis of using Large Language Models…