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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • Slashdot: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS?

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/0026255/can-you-run-the-llama-2-llm-on-dos Source: Slashdot Title: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text revolves around an innovative project by an embedded security researcher who successfully ported Llama 2, a large language model (LLM), to run on vintage DOS machines. This challenges the conventional…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Note on 20th April 2025

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/janky-license/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Note on 20th April 2025 Feedly Summary: Now that Llama has very real competition in open weight models (Gemma 3, latest Mistrals, DeepSeek, Qwen) I think their janky license is becoming much more of a liability for them. It’s just limiting enough that it could be the…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Modernizing Snowflake Corporate’s Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/modernizing-snowflake-corporates-kubernetes-infrastructure-with-bottlerocket-and-karpenter/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Modernizing Snowflake Corporate’s Kubernetes Infrastructure with Bottlerocket and Karpenter Feedly Summary: Snowflake Corporate IT Cloud Operations reached a critical juncture in its cloud infrastructure evolution. Managing large-scale containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) demanded a modern, secure, and efficient operating system. The existing…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: Integrations as Competitive Advantage

    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/integrations-as-advantage/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Integrations as Competitive Advantage Feedly Summary: Software systems work best when they’re connected to each other. For years, incumbents use deep integrations as a competitive moat. But AI upends this dynamic. A few of our portfolio companies are starting to develop integrations with AI in a matter of…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Feedly Summary: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Gemini’s latest model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, available in (paid) preview as gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while…