Tag: model release

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/25/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 The third Qwen model release week, following Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 on Monday 21st and Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct on Tuesday 22nd. Those two were both non-reasoning models – a change from the previous models in the Qwen 3 family which combined reasoning and non-reasoning in the same model,…