Tag: llms
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok-4-heavy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Grok 4 Heavy is the “think much harder" version of Grok 4 that’s currenly only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @grok
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting @grok Feedly Summary: On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We identified the operative lines…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/musks-latest-grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions Feedly Summary: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions I got quoted a couple of times in this story about Grok searching for tweets from:elonmusk by Matt O’Brien for the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Django’s security policies
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/django-security-policies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Django’s security policies Feedly Summary: Following the widespread availability of large language models (LLMs), the Django Security Team has received a growing number of security reports generated partially or entirely using such tools. Many of these contain inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious content. While AI tools can…
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Cloud Blog: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/how-jina-ai-built-its-100-billion-token-web-grounding-system-with-cloud-run-gpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: The Jina AI Reader is a specialized tool that transforms raw web content from URLs or local files into a clean, structured, and LLM-friendly format. In this post, Han Xiao details…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)"
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" Feedly Summary: If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an anwser. I heard about…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/10/grok-4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Key characteristics: image and text input, text output. 256,000 context length (twice that of Grok 3). It’s a reasoning model where you can’t see…
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CSA: Agentic AI, MCP, and the Identity Explosion
Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/agentic-ai-mcp-and-the-identity-explosion-you-can-t-ignore Source: CSA Title: Agentic AI, MCP, and the Identity Explosion Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic, a framework that simplifies AI agents’ interaction with various systems. It emphasizes the emerging security challenges posed by these intelligent, autonomous…