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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: More model releases on 31st July

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/more-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: More model releases on 31st July Feedly Summary: Here are a few more model releases from today, to round out a very busy July: Cohere released Command A Vision, their first multi-modal (image input) LLM. Like their others it’s open weights under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, so…

  • 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: Announcing a complete developer toolkit for scaling A2A agents on Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/agent2agent-protocol-is-getting-an-upgrade/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing a complete developer toolkit for scaling A2A agents on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: AI is  evolving beyond single, task-specific agents into an interconnected ecosystem, where autonomous agents collaborate  to solve complex problems, regardless of their underlying platform. To make this transition easier for developers, we are announcing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI

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    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…