Tag: .NET

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/baroness-kidron-speech/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Feedly Summary: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Barnstormer of a speech by UK film director and member of the House of Lords Baroness Kidron. This is the Hansard transcript but you can also watch the video on parliamentlive.tv.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/jack-clark-r1/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: The most surprising part of DeepSeek-R1 is that it only takes ~800k samples of ‘good’ RL reasoning to convert other models into RL-reasoners. Now that DeepSeek-R1 is available people will be able to refine samples out of it to convert any other…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ben Thompson

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/ben-thompson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ben Thompson Feedly Summary: H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around. Again, just to emphasize this point,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek Janus-Pro

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/deepseek-janus-pro/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek Janus-Pro Feedly Summary: DeepSeek Janus-Pro Another impressive model release from DeepSeek. Janus is their series of “unified multimodal understanding and generation models" – these are models that can both accept images as input and generate images for output. Janus-Pro is a new 7B model accompanied by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL!

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Qwen2.5-1M, here’s Qwen2.5 VL (with an excitable announcement title) – the latest in Qwen’s series of vision LLMs. They’re releasing multiple versions: base models and instruction tuned…

  • Hacker News: Two Programming-with-AI Approaches

    Source URL: https://everything.intellectronica.net/p/two-programming-with-ai-approaches Source: Hacker News Title: Two Programming-with-AI Approaches Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses two primary approaches to using AI in programming: dialog programming with AI assistants and commanding an AI programmer for automated code generation. The author highlights the advantages and risks associated with each approach,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/deepseek-nvidia/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia Feedly Summary: The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia Long, excellent piece by Jeffrey Emanuel capturing the current state of the AI/LLM industry. The original title is “The Short Case for Nvidia Stock" – I’m using the Hacker…