Tag: performance

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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…

Cloud Blog: Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/most-read-blogs-from-h1-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far Feedly Summary: Six months into 2025, we’ve already published hundreds of posts here on the Google Cloud blog. We asked ourselves, why wait until the busy end of the year to review your favorites? With everything from new AI models, product…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

Schneier on Security: Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/measuring-the-attack-defense-balance.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance Feedly Summary: “Who’s winning on the internet, the attackers or the defenders?” I’m asked this all the time, and I can only ever give a qualitative hand-wavy answer. But Jason Healey and Tarang Jain’s latest Lawfare piece has amassed data. The essay provides…

Slashdot: Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support

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Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/2118206/linux-616-brings-faster-file-systems-improved-confidential-memory-support-and-more-rust-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article details significant updates in the Linux 6.16 kernel focusing on improvements relevant to security, performance, and hardware support, particularly through the integration of Rust programming…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 New model update from Qwen, improving on their previous Qwen3-30B-A3B release from late April. In their tweet they said: Smarter, faster, and local deployment-friendly. ✨ Key Enhancements: ✅ Enhanced reasoning, coding, and math skills ✅ Broader multilingual knowledge ✅ Improved long-context understanding (up…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now

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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…

Slashdot: Claude Code Users Hit With Weekly Rate Limits

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Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/0156200/claude-code-users-hit-with-weekly-rate-limits Source: Slashdot Title: Claude Code Users Hit With Weekly Rate Limits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic’s decision to implement weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers is a significant shift aimed at managing resource consumption and preventing account sharing. This move highlights the growing challenges in scaling AI services…

Docker: Beyond the Chatbot: Event-Driven Agents in Action

Jul 28, 2025

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