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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/gemma-3n/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide Extremely consequential new open weights model release from Google today: Multimodal by design: Gemma 3n natively supports image, audio, video, and text inputs and text outputs. Optimized for on-device: Engineered with a focus…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528

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    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.…