Sitemap - 2024 - Simon Willison’s Newsletter
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
QvQ - Qwen's new visual reasoning model
December in LLMs has been a lot
Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking Mode"
Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop with Llama 3.3 70B
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs
Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
VERDAD - tracking misinformation in radio broadcasts using Gemini 1.5
Run prompts against images, audio and video in your terminal using LLM
The new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool
Anthropic's new Computer Use capability
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
Video scraping using Google Gemini
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, FLUX 1.1 Python 3.13...
OpenAI DevDay: Let’s build developer tools, not digital God
NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
Llama 3.2 and plugins for Django
OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
Building a tool showing how Gemini Pro can return bounding boxes for objects in images
Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications
django-http-debug, mostly written by Claude
Datasette 1.0a14: The annotated release notes
Llama 3.1, now available in LLM
GPT-4o mini, LLM 0.15, sqlite-utils 3.37 and building a staging environment
Imitation Intelligence keynote at PyCon 2024
Open challenges for AI engineering
Building search-based RAG using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Datasette and Val Town
Language models on the command-line
Thoughts on the WWDC 2024 keynote on Apple Intelligence
Accidental prompt injection against RAG applications
Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don't remember everything you say
ChatGPT in 4o mode doesn't have the new voice and image features yet
GPT-4o, a new version of LLM and more thoughts on slop
LLM slop, datasette-secrets, llm-evals, gpt2-chatbot and a whole lot more
Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM
AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now
Three major LLM releases in 24 hours
Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus
Building and testing C extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT Code Interpreter
Claude and ChatGPT for ad-hoc sidequests
The GPT-4 barrier has finally been smashed
Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video
Datasette 1.0a8: JavaScript plugins, new plugin hooks and plugin configuration in datasette.yaml
LLM 0.13: The annotated release notes