Tag: Vision Models

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Betker

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/james-betker/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Betker Feedly Summary: I work for OpenAI. […] o4-mini is actually a considerably better vision model than o3, despite the benchmarks. Similar to how o3-mini-high was a much better coding model than o1. I would recommend using o4-mini-high over o3 for any task involving vision.…

  • Hacker News: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision

    Source URL: https://blog.mozilla.ai/map-features-in-openstreetmap-with-computer-vision/ Source: Hacker News Title: Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Mozilla.ai’s development of the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint, which utilizes computer vision models to enhance the mapping process while maintaining human verification. This innovation highlights the potential of AI…

  • Hacker News: OpenArc – Lightweight Inference Server for OpenVINO

    Source URL: https://github.com/SearchSavior/OpenArc Source: Hacker News Title: OpenArc – Lightweight Inference Server for OpenVINO Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** OpenArc is a lightweight inference API backend optimized for leveraging hardware acceleration with Intel devices, designed for agentic use cases and capable of serving large language models (LLMs) efficiently. It offers a…

  • Hacker News: Inducing brain-like structure in GPT’s weights makes them parameter efficient

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16396 Source: Hacker News Title: Inducing brain-like structure in GPT’s weights makes them parameter efficient Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper introduces TopoLoss, a new loss function aimed at enhancing the organization of AI models by adopting brain-like topographic structures. This approach results in superior task performance in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Hacker News: Multimodal Interpretability in 2024

    Source URL: https://www.soniajoseph.ai/multimodal-interpretability-in-2024/ Source: Hacker News Title: Multimodal Interpretability in 2024 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses advancements in multimodal interpretability within AI, highlighting a shift towards mechanistic and causal interpretability methods over traditional techniques. It emphasizes the integration of interpretability across language and vision models and outlines various…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast Feedly Summary: These past few weeks I’ve been bringing Datasette and LLM together and distracting myself with a new sort-of-podcast crossed with a live streaming experiment. Project: interviewing people about their projects Datasette Public Office…