Archive - Simon Willison’s Newsletter

December in LLMs has been a lot

Plus notes on OpenAI's o3, and my approach to running a link blog

Dec 22 •

Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking Mode"

Plus building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects

Dec 20 •

Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

Plus ChatGPT Canvas can make API requests now, but it's complicated

Dec 11 •

I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop with Llama 3.3 70B

And an async browser library for alert(), confirm() and prompt() built using OpenAI o1

Dec 9 •

First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs

And a new llm-bedrock plugin

Dec 5 •

November 2024

Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal

Plus Storing times for human events and more

Nov 29 •

Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities

Plus notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI

Nov 21 •

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

Plus Visualizing local election results with Datasette, Observable and MapLibre GL

Nov 13 •

VERDAD - tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5

Plus generating documentation from unit tests using LLM and files-to-prompt

Nov 7 •

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Plus monthnotes for October

Nov 5 •

October 2024

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