Tag: web search

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/openai-o3-and-o4-mini-system-card/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card Feedly Summary: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card I’m surprised to see a combined System Card for o3 and o4-mini in the same document – I’d expect to see these covered separately. The opening paragraph calls out the most interesting new…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1941258/chatgpt-models-are-surprisingly-good-at-geoguessing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a concerning trend related to the use of OpenAI’s new models, o3 and o4-mini, for deducing locations from images, raising potential privacy issues. The models’ advanced image analysis capabilities combined with…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Unveils o3 and o4-mini Models

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/16/1925253/openai-unveils-o3-and-o4-mini-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Unveils o3 and o4-mini Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of the o3 and o4-mini AI models marks a crucial development in AI’s capability to process and analyze images, expanding the scope of their applications. These models can utilize various tools, enhancing their…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/introducing-openai-o3-and-o4-mini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini Feedly Summary: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini OpenAI are really emphasizing tool use with these: For the first time, our reasoning models can agentically use and combine every tool within ChatGPT—this includes searching the web, analyzing uploaded files and other data with…

  • Cloud Blog: Google’s AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/google-global-network-principles-and-innovations/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google’s AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era Feedly Summary: From answering search queries, to streaming YouTube videos, to handling the most demanding cloud workloads, for over 25 years, we’ve been relentlessly pushing the boundaries of network technology, building a global infrastructure that powers Google and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/21/anthropic-used-brave/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor Feedly Summary: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor Yesterday I was trying to figure out if Anthropic has rolled their own search index for Claude’s new web search feature or if they were working with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude can now search the web

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/claude-can-now-search-the-web/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude can now search the web Feedly Summary: Claude can now search the web Claude 3.7 Sonnet on the paid plan now has a web search tool that can be turned on as a global setting. This was sorely needed. ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok all had this…