Tag: model weights
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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: model.yaml
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/model-yaml/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: model.yaml Feedly Summary: model.yaml From their GitHub repo it looks like this effort quietly launched a couple of months ago, driven by the LM Studio team. Their goal is to specify an “open standard for defining crossplatform, composable AI models". A model can be defined using a…
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Cloud Blog: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/using-multi-tier-checkpointing-for-large-ai-training-jobs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs Feedly Summary: As foundation model training infrastructure scales to tens of thousands of accelerators, efficient utilization of those high-value resources becomes paramount. In particular, as the cluster gets larger, hardware failures become more frequent (~…
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Cloud Blog: Selecting the right Hyperdisk block storage for your workloads
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-to-choose-the-right-hyperdisk-block-storage-for-your-use-case/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Selecting the right Hyperdisk block storage for your workloads Feedly Summary: As you adopt Google Cloud or migrate to the latest Compute Engine VMs or to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), selecting the right block storage for your workload is crucial. Hyperdisk, Google Cloud’s workload-optimized block storage that’s designed…
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Cloud Blog: Accelerate your gen AI: Deploy Llama4 & DeepSeek on AI Hypercomputer with new recipes
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/deploying-llama4-and-deepseek-on-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate your gen AI: Deploy Llama4 & DeepSeek on AI Hypercomputer with new recipes Feedly Summary: The pace of innovation in open-source AI is breathtaking, with models like Meta’s Llama4 and DeepSeek AI’s DeepSeek. However, deploying and optimizing large, powerful models can be complex and resource-intensive. Developers and…
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Cloud Blog: Streamline your your AI/ML data transfers with new GKE Volume Populator
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-volume-populator-streamlines-aiml-data-transfers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Streamline your your AI/ML data transfers with new GKE Volume Populator Feedly Summary: As an AI/ML developer, you have a lot of decisions to make when it comes to choosing your infrastructure — even if you’re running on top of a fully managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/deepseek-aideepseek-r1-0528/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in January.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/what-people-get-wrong-about-the-leading-chinese-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship Feedly Summary: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship While I’ve been enjoying trying out Alibaba’s Qwen 3 a lot recently, Nathan Lambert focuses on the elephant in…
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Cloud Blog: Kubernetes, your AI superpower: How Google Kubernetes Engine powers AI innovation
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-gke-powers-ai-innovation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Kubernetes, your AI superpower: How Google Kubernetes Engine powers AI innovation Feedly Summary: The age of AI is now. In fact, the global AI infrastructure market is on track to increase to more than $200 billion by 2028. However, working with massive data, intricate models, and relentless iterations…
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METR updates – METR: Common Elements of Frontier AI Safety Policies
Source URL: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-26-common-elements-of-frontier-ai-safety-policies/ Source: METR updates – METR Title: Common Elements of Frontier AI Safety Policies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses commitments by major developers of large foundation AI models to corporate protocols that focus on evaluating and mitigating severe risks associated with AI technologies. These protocols emphasize information…