Tag: reasoning
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining Feedly Summary: Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the Enhance Button and…
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals Feedly Summary: I used part three (here’s parts one and two) of Dave Guarino’s series on evaluating how well LLMs can answer questions about SNAP (aka food stamps) as an excuse to explore Promptfoo, an LLM eval tool. SNAP (Supplemental…
-
Slashdot: AI Compute Costs Drive Shift To Usage-Based Software Pricing
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1650227/ai-compute-costs-drive-shift-to-usage-based-software-pricing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Compute Costs Drive Shift To Usage-Based Software Pricing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry is transitioning from traditional “per seat” licensing to usage-based pricing models due to the high compute costs of advanced reasoning AI models. This transformation is crucial for understanding…
-
The Register: Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/microsoft_365_copilot_agent_refresh/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots Feedly Summary: You. Will. Love. The. LLM. The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may…
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…
-
Cloud Blog: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced incredible ways for enterprises to build multi-agent ecosystems with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Databases – including better ways for agents to communicate with each other using Agent2Agent…
-
Cloud Blog: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-database-and-langchain-integrations-support-go-java-and-javascript/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript Feedly Summary: Last year, Google Cloud and LangChain announced integrations that give generative AI developers access to a suite of LangChain Python packages. This allowed application developers to leverage Google Cloud’s database portfolio in their gen…
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/openai-o3-and-o4-mini-system-card/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card Feedly Summary: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card I’m surprised to see a combined System Card for o3 and o4-mini in the same document – I’d expect to see these covered separately. The opening paragraph calls out the most interesting new…
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…
-
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Feedly Summary: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the word…