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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…

  • Cloud Blog: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained Feedly Summary: Organizations depend on fast and accurate data-driven insights to make decisions, and SQL is at the core of how they access that data. With Gemini, Google can generate SQL directly from natural language — a.k.a. text-to-SQL. This…

  • Cloud Blog: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-enhancements-for-the-developer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger Feedly Summary: Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous…

  • The Register: Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/bing_search_apis_retired/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative Feedly Summary: Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/openai-on-twitter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting OpenAI on Twitter Feedly Summary: By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today. GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

  • The Register: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/google_deepmind_debuts_algorithm_evolving/ Source: The Register Title: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos Feedly Summary: AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too Google’s AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its “evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize…

  • The Register: Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they’re ready to rock

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/new_job_machine_learning_administrator/ Source: The Register Title: Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they’re ready to rock Feedly Summary: IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator…