Tag: pelican
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek 3.1
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/deepseek-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek 3.1 Feedly Summary: DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it’s a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig points out that their benchmarks…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/14/gemma-3-270m/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI New from Google: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: simonw/codespaces-llm
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/codespaces-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: simonw/codespaces-llm Feedly Summary: simonw/codespaces-llm GitHub Codespaces provides full development environments in your browser, and is free to use with anyone with a GitHub account. Each environment has a full Linux container and a browser-based UI using VS Code. I found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/llm-027/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling Feedly Summary: I shipped LLM 0.27 today, adding support for the new GPT-5 family of models from OpenAI plus a flurry of improvements to the tool calling features introduced in LLM 0.26. Here are the annotated…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art – pelicans don’t ride bikes!"
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/10/qwen3-4b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art – pelicans don’t ride bikes!" Feedly Summary: I’ve fallen a few days behind keeping up with Qwen. They released two new 4B models last week: Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 and its thinking equivalent Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507. These are relatively tiny models that punch way above their weight. I’ve…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup Feedly Summary: I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t recorded but I’ve created…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers Feedly Summary: I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread with the OpenAI team is a great…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/previewing-gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office Feedly Summary: A couple of weeks ago I was invited to OpenAI’s headquarters for a “preview event", for which I had to sign both an NDA and a video release waiver. I suspected it might relate to either GPT-5 or the OpenAI…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card Feedly Summary: I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite model. It’s still an LLM – it’s not a dramatic departure…