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Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good Feedly Summary: The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses – Apache 2.0 – and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s own…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Opus 4.1
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/claude-opus-41/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Opus 4.1 Feedly Summary: Claude Opus 4.1 Surprise new model from Anthropic today – Claude Opus 4.1, which they describe as “a drop-in replacement for Opus 4". My favorite thing about this model is the version number – treating this as a .1 version increment looks…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…
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The Register: Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft_recall_captures_credit_card_info/ Source: The Register Title: Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks Feedly Summary: Our tests have shown there are ways to get around the promised security improvements exclusive Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China
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…
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Cloud Blog: Top 25 blogs of 2025… so far
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…
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Cloud Blog: Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/veo-3-fast-available-for-everyone-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Veo 3 has seen massive global adoption with over 70 million videos created since May, and we’ve seen tremendous momentum with our enterprise customers as well. Since its preview launch on Vertex AI…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/github-spark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark Feedly Summary: GitHub Spark was released in public preview yesterday. It’s GitHub’s implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern also seen in products like Claude Artifacts, Lovable, Vercel v0, Val Town Townie and Fly.io’s Phoenix New. I wrote about Spark back…