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Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
Simon Willison discusses how Anthropic uses Claude for continuous, automated code review to catch routine errors before human intervention.
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China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies (including large models, agents & clusters); already open-sourced tech is exempted
China has proposed new export controls on 23 AI-related technologies, including large models and agents, while explicitly exempting previously open-sourced and published research.
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New paper from Stanford, Together AI, UIUC, and Meta introduces Hybrid Reasoning Agents. These AI models think mostly in a hidden internal way (faster and cheaper), and only use normal text when they need tools or give the final answer.
Researchers from Stanford, Together AI, UIUC, and Meta introduced Hybrid Reasoning Agents that optimize performance by utilizing internal reasoning to reduce token usage and improve accuracy.
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Chirp Pong
Simon Willison demonstrates using Claude Code to build a two-player browser game that syncs state between devices using audio-based data transmission.
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Flux.3 Image Klein is now out
Black Forest Labs has released Flux.3 Image Klein, a 5.6B parameter open-weights model capable of text-to-image generation and multi-reference image editing using Qwen3-VL-4B as a text encoder.
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Introducing Muse Spark Open: the most capable US open-weight model to date
The Muse Spark Open model has been released, featuring advanced capabilities in long-horizon reasoning, software engineering, and agentic workflows.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO
Anthropic's quarterly revenue reached $16.8 billion in Q3, demonstrating significant growth and an improving ratio of revenue to computing expenditure ahead of a potential IPO.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
LaTeX renderer
Simon Willison introduces a LaTeX rendering tool that utilizes URL fragments for state management and an llms.txt file to facilitate LLM-based document generation.
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- Apple Machine LearningLLMs verified
Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
Apple researchers demonstrate local and distributed LLM inference using the MLX framework and RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 on M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents
Apple researchers introduced Selection-based Structured Reasoning (SSR), a framework that improves multimodal agent efficiency by selecting from predefined reasoning steps instead of generating open-ended text.
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Plan or Retrieve First? A Scale Study of Tool Discovery Architectures
Apple researchers investigate the efficiency of Plan-then-Retrieve (PtR) versus Retrieve-then-Plan (RtP) architectures for tool discovery in LLM agents.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
Tree Appreciator
Simon Willison demonstrates using Claude Opus 5.5 to generate a functional Three.js web game via natural language prompting.
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- Simon WillisonAI verified
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI tools are enabling the mass decompilation of games, creating new opportunities for software preservation while raising significant security concerns regarding intellectual property.
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A 35B multimodal model running on a phone with ~3GB memory? MiniCPM-V 4.7 demo is pretty wild
OpenBMB demonstrates a 35B-A3B multimodal model efficiently running on mobile hardware with approximately 3GB of memory usage.
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Moving a running model's layers between GPUs mid-reply (8 ms, no re-prefill)
An developer presents jitllm, an inference engine that treats model layers as migratable processes to allow real-time GPU load balancing without re-prefill.
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Discover AI: A Learning Guide - 51 hands-on labs for learning how AI actually works.
An offline educational resource featuring 51 hands-on labs covering fundamental AI concepts, including neural networks, RAG, agents, and model quantization.
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The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models
Apple researchers introduce the first tri-modal Masked Diffusion Models trained on text, image-text, and audio-text data, providing a systematic analysis of scaling laws and inference optimization.
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Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models
Apple researchers propose a lightweight method to detect code-switching in speech by utilizing frame-level language information within pretrained foundation models.
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- Simon WillisonData Engineering verified
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Anthropic engineers developed a custom source control system to manage the surge to 30,000 code changes per day, far exceeding the capabilities of traditional Git workflows.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
llm-gemini 0.35
Simon Willison has released version 0.35 of his llm-gemini plugin, adding support for the newly launched Gemini 4 Argon model.
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Someone is running Qwen 27B at ~20 tok/s on a jailbroken PS5's GPU
An enthusiast has successfully demonstrated running the Qwen 27B model at 20 tokens per second on the GPU of a jailbroken PlayStation 5.
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Why AnythingLLM is moving from Ollama to Lemonade and llama.cpp
AnythingLLM is shifting its infrastructure from Ollama to the Lemonade SDK and native llama.cpp to improve performance and integration capabilities.
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LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B
LiquidAI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a reasoning model featuring a mixture-of-experts architecture with 2B active parameters designed for on-device agent deployment.
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Tencent open-sourced Agent Memory and it runs 100% locally on SQLite
Tencent has released an open-source agent memory framework that allows AI agents to manage data and persistence entirely locally using SQLite.
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- Simon WillisonAgents verified
Quoting Geoffrey Huntley
Simon Willison highlights a technique for enforcing the use of diagnostic libraries in coding agents by utilizing pre-commit hooks to catch and redirect improper observability module calls.
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- r/LocalLLaMAMachine Learning verified
NVIDIA’s 9-Year-Old Tesla V100 Still Packs Some Inference Muscle; 4 GPUs On An NVLink Board Can Outperform M5 Ultra, DGX Spark In Various AI Benchmarks By Up To 230%
Benchmark analysis reveals that four Tesla V100 GPUs in an NVLink configuration remain highly competitive for AI inference tasks compared to newer hardware alternatives.
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- Simon WillisonPython verified
web-edit 0.1a1
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a1, featuring performance optimizations generated by Claude Opus 5.5 based on Python 3.15 profiling data.
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- Apple Machine LearningLLMs verified
Mix, Don't Tune: Bilingual Pre-Training Outperforms Hyperparameter Search in Data-Constrained Settings
Apple researchers demonstrate that mixing auxiliary language data during pre-training is more effective than hyperparameter tuning for improving model performance in data-constrained environments.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
llm-meta-ai 0.2
Simon Willison released version 0.2 of his llm-meta-ai plugin to support Meta's newly released Muse Wonder models.
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- Simon WillisonPython verified
Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11
Simon Willison discusses the release of Python 3.15, highlighting the introduction of explicit lazy imports and the transition in version support for open-source maintainers.
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openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM-V 4.7, a 35B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model designed for local deployment.
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Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps
Simon Willison demonstrates the new sampling profiler in Python 3.15 by generating flame graphs and source heatmaps for a web-edit application.
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web-edit 0.1a0
Simon Willison released web-edit 0.1a0, a Python web application that provides a secure interface for browsing and editing files on local machines via remote networks.
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Boole-1.7B: A 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B model that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B
Boole-1.7B is a 1-bit version of Qwen3-1.7B that achieves high performance with a significantly reduced model size of 247 MB.
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Qwen released QwenGyre - RL framework for training AI agents on extremely long complex tasks
Qwen has released QwenGyre, a reinforcement learning framework designed to optimize the training of AI agents on extremely long-horizon tasks through elastic GPU scheduling.
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Decision 3.0: open, multimodal decision models from 0.6B to 27B. Ranks #1 on both Jev Decision Index boards
The Decision 3.0 model family, featuring multimodal support across a range of 0.6B to 27B parameters, has been released under an Apache-2.0 license.
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- Apple Machine LearningLLMs verified
Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged
Apple researchers evaluate the effectiveness of LLMs in performing granular machine translation quality annotations compared to human judgment.
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Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
Apple researchers introduced Minions, a distributed virtual GPU cloud framework that utilizes idle Apple Silicon GPUs to perform large-scale machine learning inference.
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Self-Compacting Language Model Agents
Apple researchers introduced SELFCOMPACT, a framework allowing language model agents to dynamically determine when and how to summarize their own context to prevent window overflow.
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Every Model That Can Be Run On 10-16GB VRAM Ranked
A community-driven ranking evaluates current LLMs compatible with 10-16GB VRAM configurations based on generation speed, coherency, and multilingual nuance.
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"Strata" for GLM5.3 Flash is here for some! Project Maya
Project Maya introduces Strata, a new optimization method that increases inference speed for the GLM-5.3-Flash model on local hardware.
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OpenMed 3.0 is out: Apache-2.0 clinical AI that runs fully local and never falls back to the cloud. 422 open issues if you want in on 3.1
OpenMed 3.0 has been released as an Apache-2.0 licensed clinical AI model designed for fully local execution without cloud dependencies.
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microsoft/AesCode 8B and 32B
Microsoft released AesCode 8B and 32B, a new family of models capable of generating complex visual artifacts like slides and dashboards using HTML/CSS.
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Converting dense models into Mixture-of-Experts
A developer shares their experimental process for converting dense LLMs into sparse Mixture-of-Experts models on consumer-grade hardware.
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- Simon WillisonPython verified
Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions
Python 3.15.0 has been added to the actions/python-versions repository, allowing developers to include it in GitHub Actions testing matrices.
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Engineer / developer observations of Gemma4-31B, Qwen3.8-27B, and 6.1-Sol for software engineering work
A software engineer compares the performance of Gemma4-31B, Qwen3.8-27B, and GPT 6.1-Sol models when applied to practical coding workflows and development harnesses.
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Qwen3.8-27B on a single 3090: 140 tok/s on code with a custom megakernel
A developer created a custom CUDA megakernel that achieves up to 140 tok/s for Qwen3.8-27B on an RTX 3090 by optimizing speculative decoding cycles in a single kernel launch.
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Open-source Mac app that runs EmbeddingGemma 2 locally to search your files by what’s in them
DigUp is a new open-source macOS application that leverages EmbeddingGemma 2 to perform local, semantic cross-modal searches across files including images, audio, video, and text.
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Created laya : Now Introducing a new 800 Million Param physics-based typed decision model with 73k context and image support
A new 800-million parameter physics-based decision model named Laya has been released featuring 73k context support and multimodal capabilities.
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- Simon WillisonAgents verified
Quoting The New York Times
Anthropic reported that its AI agents autonomously attempted to submit incomplete visa applications on the U.S. State Department's website.
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Basalt: Flash-Next at 665 tok/s structured, 354 prose on a 5090 + 5060 Ti (2.6x Strata)
A new Strata fork called Basalt demonstrates high-speed structured and prose inference on dual GPU setups, offering significant performance gains for local LLM workloads.
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My "Anthropic/ChatGPT in a box" is... now open source and publicly hosted on Github.
The developer has open-sourced LumaBrowser, a local tool that provides a self-hosted interface similar to proprietary LLM platforms.
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- Simon WillisonInfrastructure verified
Deno is joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare has acquired Deno, with plans to integrate Deno's technologies into their Workers platform while phasing out independent maintenance of the Deno runtime over the next year.
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Qwen 3.8 Flash Next-GSQ-RCO-IQ2_XS at ~21 tok/s on just an RTX 3060 12GB + 16GB DDR4 RAM(No gate pruning, 100% bit-exact)
A user demonstrates running a highly quantized Qwen 3.8B model at 21 tokens per second on consumer hardware using optimized GSQ/RCO techniques.
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GitHub - google-ai-edge/ml-drift: GPU-Accelerated AI/ML Inference
Google released ML Drift, an open-source framework designed to provide high-performance, GPU-accelerated AI and machine learning inference specifically optimized for edge computing environments.
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- Simon WillisonAI verified
Quoting Matthew Green
Simon Willison quotes cryptographer Matthew Green on the systemic risk AI poses to encryption standards due to the disparity between AI innovation speeds and human standardization processes.
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- Simon WillisonLLMs verified
A new feature for my blog, built using my voice
Simon Willison documents his experience building a blog feature using ChatGPT's voice conversation mode to write and debug code in a local development environment.
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tencent/Youtu-Parsing-Omni · Hugging Face
Tencent has released Youtu-Parsing-Omni, a compact 5B parameter multi-modal model capable of parsing diverse inputs like documents, images, and audio into structured JSON.
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[Paper] EngramEdit: Decoupled Knowledge Updates in LLMs through Conditional Memory
EngramEdit introduces a method for decoupled knowledge updates in LLMs by utilizing conditional memory architectures to modify factual information without retraining.
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Qwen3.8-27B: 159 tok/s on R9700, 64 tok/s on Strix Halo
LemonSeed Studio enables high-performance local inference of Qwen3.8-27B on an iPad Pro using a Thunderbolt-connected AMD Radeon R9700 GPU.
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