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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek Janus-Pro

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/deepseek-janus-pro/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek Janus-Pro Feedly Summary: DeepSeek Janus-Pro Another impressive model release from DeepSeek. Janus is their series of “unified multimodal understanding and generation models" – these are models that can both accept images as input and generate images for output. Janus-Pro is a new 7B model accompanied by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL!

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Qwen2.5-1M, here’s Qwen2.5 VL (with an excitable announcement title) – the latest in Qwen’s series of vision LLMs. They’re releasing multiple versions: base models and instruction tuned…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/qvq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model Feedly Summary: I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities". Their blog…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/gemini-2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode Feedly Summary: Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and the new Project…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin) Feedly Summary: Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova and comes in three sizes: Micro, Lite and Pro. I built…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/28/smolvlm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model Feedly Summary: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model I’ve been having fun playing with this new vision model from the Hugging Face team behind SmolLM. They describe it as: […] a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/gemini-exp-1121/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121 Feedly Summary: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121 Google Gemini’s Logan Kilpatrick on Twitter: Say hello to gemini-exp-1121! Our latest experimental gemini model, with: significant gains on coding performance stronger reasoning capabilities improved visual understanding Available on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API right…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Pixtral Large

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/pixtral-large/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Pixtral Large Feedly Summary: Pixtral Large New today from Mistral: Today we announce Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weights multimodal model built on top of Mistral Large 2. Pixtral Large is the second model in our multimodal family and demonstrates frontier-level image understanding. The weights are out on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/13/ollama-llama-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Feedly Summary: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Ollama released version 0.4 last week with support for Meta’s first Llama vision model, Llama 3.2. If you have Ollama installed you can fetch the 11B model (7.9 GB) like this: ollama pull llama3.2-vision Or the larger…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: PDF support (beta)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/1/claude-api-pdf-support-beta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: PDF support (beta) Feedly Summary: Claude API: PDF support (beta) Claude 3.5 Sonnet now accepts PDFs as attachments: The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) model now supports PDF input and understands both text and visual content within documents. I just released llm-claude-3 0.7 with support…