Tag: Qwen

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/drew-on-dspy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines Feedly Summary: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines I’ve had trouble getting my head around DSPy in the past. This half hour talk by Drew…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/qwen3-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action Feedly Summary: Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action I’ve been looking forward to this. Qwen 2.5 VL is one of the best available open weight vision LLMs, so I had high hopes for Qwen 3’s vision models. Firstly, we…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Four new releases from Qwen

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/qwen/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Four new releases from Qwen Feedly Summary: It’s been an extremely busy day for team Qwen. Within the last 24 hours (all links to Twitter, which seems to be their preferred platform for these announcements): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 – official FP8 quantized versions of their Qwen3-Next models.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Locally AI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/21/locally-ai/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Locally AI Feedly Summary: Locally AI Handy new iOS app by Adrien Grondin for running local LLMs on your phone. It just added support for the new iOS 26 Apple Foundation model, so you can install this app and instantly start a conversation with that model without…

  • AWS News Blog: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/qwen-models-are-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: Amazon Bedrock has expanded its model offerings with the addition of Qwen 3 foundation models enabling users to access and deploy them in a fully managed, serverless environment. These models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) and dense architectures…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • The Register: Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/24/llama_cpp_hands_on/ Source: The Register Title: Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Feedly Summary: Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but…

  • Slashdot: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1536215/chinas-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights China’s advancements in open-source AI, particularly how their leading model surpasses that of OpenAI, raising significant concerns among U.S. policymakers and the tech industry. This shift emphasizes the…

  • 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…