Simon Willison
Aug 13
llm-gemini 0.33
Release: llm-gemini 0. 33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release.
Markdown SVG upgrades
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.
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Simon Willison
4d ago
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Qwen 3. 8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.
Simon Willison
2d ago
Quoting Jeremy Morrell
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries.
Simon Willison
Aug 12
Quoting Florian Herrengt
But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it.
Simon Willison
6d ago
CORS Chat
Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5. 6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.
Simon Willison
8h ago
llm-openrouter 0.7
Release: llm-openrouter 0. 7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.
Simon Willison
1d ago
A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView
Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1. 4's new Bun.
Simon Willison
9h ago
Stop Making TUIs
Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis.
Google AI Blog
Mar 20, 2024
Using AI to expand global access to reliable flood forecasts
Posted by Yossi Matias, VP Engineering & Research, and Grey Nearing, Research Scientist, Google Research Floods are the most common natural disaster , and are responsible for roughly $50 billion in annual financial damages worldwide. The rate of flood-related disasters has more than doubled since the year 2000 partly due to climate change .
Google AI Blog
Feb 21, 2024
Advances in private training for production on-device language models
Posted by Zheng Xu, Research Scientist, and Yanxiang Zhang, Software Engineer, Google Language models (LMs) trained to predict the next word given input text are the key technology for many applications [ 1 , 2 ]. In Gboard , LMs are used to improve users’ typing experience by supporting features like next word prediction (NWP), Smart Compose , smart completion and suggestion , slide to type , and proofread .
Simon Willison
Aug 13
sqlite-utils 4.2
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.
Google AI Blog
Jan 31, 2024
MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, leading models feature billions of parameters and are consequently expensive to run, requiring powerful desktops or servers (e.