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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good

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    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…

  • Slashdot: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’

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    Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/235206/disney-scrapped-deepfakes-for-moana-and-tron-to-avoid-bad-publicity Source: Slashdot Title: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Disney’s recent decision to abandon plans for using deepfake technology in its projects, including Moana and Tron: Ares, highlights escalating concerns about the ramifications of AI in creative content. The…

  • Docker: How Docker MCP Toolkit Works with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/mcp-toolkit-and-vs-code-copilot-agent/ Source: Docker Title: How Docker MCP Toolkit Works with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode Feedly Summary: In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, integrating modern AI tools is essential to boosting productivity and enhancing the developer experience. One such advancement is the integration of Docker’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolkit with…

  • Slashdot: Disney Struggles With How to Use AI – While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues

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    Source URL: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/0432213/disney-struggles-with-how-to-use-ai—while-retaining-copyrights-and-avoiding-legal-issues Source: Slashdot Title: Disney Struggles With How to Use AI – While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Disney is grappling with the integration of AI technology in its film production, particularly concerning the use of deepfakes for creating a digital double of Dwayne…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

  • Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 New model update from Qwen, improving on their previous Qwen3-30B-A3B release from late April. In their tweet they said: Smarter, faster, and local deployment-friendly. ✨ Key Enhancements: ✅ Enhanced reasoning, coding, and math skills ✅ Broader multilingual knowledge ✅ Improved long-context understanding (up…