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  • Slashdot: Google DeepMind Creates Super-Advanced AI That Can Invent New Algorithms

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/14/2212200/google-deepmind-creates-super-advanced-ai-that-can-invent-new-algorithms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google DeepMind Creates Super-Advanced AI That Can Invent New Algorithms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s DeepMind has introduced AlphaEvolve, a groundbreaking AI agent that utilizes a large language model with an evolutionary approach to tackle complex math and science problems. This general-purpose AI demonstrates significant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/anthropic-api-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Feedly Summary: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Anthropic’s web search (presumably still powered by Brave) is now also available through their API, in the shape of a new web search tool called web_search_20250305. You can specify a maximum…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/gemini-images-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Feedly Summary: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Gemini 2.0 Flash has had image generation capabilities for a while now, and they’re now available via the paid Gemini API – at 3.9 cents per generated…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-prices.com

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/llm-prices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-prices.com Feedly Summary: llm-prices.com I’ve been maintaining a simple LLM pricing calculator since October last year. I finally decided to split it out to its own domain name (previously it was hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices), running on Cloudflare Pages. The site runs out of my simonw/llm-prices GitHub repository.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/gemini-25-pro-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance New Gemini 2.5 Pro “Google I/O edition" model, released a few weeks ahead of that annual developer conference. They claim even better frontend coding performance, highlighting their #1 ranking…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Max Woolf

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/max-woolf/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Max Woolf Feedly Summary: Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) LLM provider cost economics are too negative to return positive ROI to investors, and (b) LLMs are useful for solving problems that are meaningful and high impact, albeit not to the AGI hype that would…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/mark-zuckerberg/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg Feedly Summary: You also mentioned the whole Chatbot Arena thing, which I think is interesting and points to the challenge around how you do benchmarking. How do you know what models are good for which things? One of the things we’ve generally tried to…