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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Command A: Max performance, minimal compute

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/command-a/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Command A: Max performance, minimal compute Feedly Summary: Introducing Command A: Max performance, minimal compute New LLM release from Cohere. It’s interesting to see which aspects of the model they’re highlighting, as an indicator of what their commercial customers value the most (highlight mine): Command A…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/responses-vs-chat-completions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions Feedly Summary: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions OpenAI released a bunch of new API platform features this morning under the headline “New tools for building agents" (their somewhat mushy interpretation of "agents" here is "systems that independently accomplish tasks on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-openrouter 0.4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/10/llm-openrouter-04/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-openrouter 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-openrouter 0.4 I found out this morning that OpenRouter include support for a number of (rate-limited) free API models. I occasionally workshops on top of LLMs (like this one) and being able to provide students with a quick way to obtain an API…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Yegge

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/9/steve-yegge/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Yegge Feedly Summary: I’ve been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/cutting-edge-web-scraping/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Feedly Summary: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Here’s the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at NICAR 2025 on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became possible only with recent developments in LLMs. For…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/questions-for-jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark Feedly Summary: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark I tend to ignore statements with this much future-facing hype, especially when they come from AI labs who are both raising money and trying to influence US technical policy. Anthropic’s Jack Clark has…