Tag: small

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: qwen2.5vl in Ollama

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/qwen25vl-in-ollama/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Feedly Summary: qwen2.5vl in Ollama Ollama announced a complete overhaul of their vision support the other day. Here’s the first new model they’ve shipped since then – a packaged version of Qwen 2.5 VL which was first released on January 26th 2025. Here are…

  • Slashdot: Google Restores Nextcloud Users’ File Access on Android

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/17/2312252/google-restores-nextcloud-users-file-access-on-android?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Restores Nextcloud Users’ File Access on Android Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Nextcloud’s struggle with Google’s Play Store regarding file upload permissions for Android users. This situation underscores the challenges faced by smaller software vendors in navigating ‘Big Tech’ influence, highlighting concerns…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…

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

    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: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/vision-language-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Feedly Summary: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Extremely useful review of the last year in vision and multi-modal LLMs. So much has happened! I’m particularly excited about the range of small open weight vision models that are now available. Models…