Simon Willison joins Oxide and Friends podcast to discuss open weight AI models, Kimi K3, cybersecurity incidents, and AI policy letters.
An opinionated guide comparing AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, focusing on agentic systems and computer access modes.
Analysis of US vs Chinese AI models, discussing distillation, fair use, and open source competition.
Analysis of US vs Chinese AI models, focusing on distillation, fair use, and open-source competition.
A .NET global tool that monitors all Foundry Local AI model instances on your machine, showing loaded models and device backends in real time.
Explores the trend of smart model routing to reduce AI costs by automatically selecting the best LLM for each task.
Adding MAI-Image-2.5 support to ElBruno.Text2Image .NET library and t2i CLI for image generation from terminal or C# code.
Microsoft announces MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash LLMs, with details on parameters, licensing, and training data.
Release notes for llm 0.31, a command-line tool for accessing large language models, featuring GPT-5.5 support and new options.
Testing OpenAI's new ChatGPT Images 2.0 model by generating 'Where's Waldo' style images with a raccoon holding a ham radio.
A daily tech reading list covering Kubernetes updates, AI tools, Java, JavaScript trends, and new software stacks.
Discusses the reliability challenges and lack of provable correctness guarantees in current AI systems, despite their productivity benefits.
Guide to running Claude Code as a VSCode plugin on OpenShift and integrating it with AI models via vLLM for local development.
Anthropic introduces a faster 'fast mode' for Claude Opus 4.6 at a significantly higher cost, with a temporary discount.
Mistral releases Voxtral Transcribe 2, a new family of audio-to-text models, including an open-weights real-time transcription model.
Mistral releases Voxtral Transcribe 2, a new family of audio-to-text models, including an open-weights real-time transcription model.
Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, a faster, cheaper AI model with strong coding and multimodal capabilities, compared to previous versions.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images update focuses on faster generation, better instruction following, and lower costs, with comparisons to competitor models.
OpenAI announces GPT-5.2, a major AI model update with new variants, improved benchmarks, and advanced features like response compaction.
A deep dive into Google's Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash) AI image model, exploring its autoregressive architecture and superior prompt engineering capabilities.
