Simon Willison
Aug 12
alchemy-utils 0.1a0
Release: alchemy-utils 0. 1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like.
sqlite-utils 4.2
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.
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Google AI Blog
Mar 11, 2024
Chain-of-table: Evolving tables in the reasoning chain for table understanding
Posted by Zilong Wang, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team People use tables every day to organize and interpret complex information in a structured, easily accessible format. Due to the ubiquity of such tables, reasoning over tabular data has long been a central topic in natural language processing (NLP).
arXiv AI
Aug 14
SchemaLink: An Intelligent Web Editor for LinkML Schema Curation
arXiv:2608. 12529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivation: LinkML is a suitable language for the representation of the structural and content constraints of different kinds of biomedical data.
Simon Willison
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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
5d ago
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.
Simon Willison
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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
Aug 13
sqlite-utils 4.2.1
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2.
Simon Willison
Aug 13
llm-gemini 0.33
Release: llm-gemini 0. 33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release.
Simon Willison
Aug 9
GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is already stale, because the retirement has been completed.
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.
Google AI Blog
Mar 19, 2024
ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding
Posted by Srinivas Sunkara and Gilles Baechler, Software Engineers, Google Research Screen user interfaces (UIs) and infographics, such as charts, diagrams and tables, play important roles in human communication and human-machine interaction as they facilitate rich and interactive user experiences. UIs and infographics share similar design principles and visual language (e.
Google AI Blog
Mar 14, 2024
Cappy: Outperforming and boosting large multi-task language models with a small scorer
Posted by Yun Zhu and Lijuan Liu, Software Engineers, Google Research Large language model (LLM) advancements have led to a new paradigm that unifies various natural language processing (NLP) tasks within an instruction-following framework. This paradigm is exemplified by recent multi-task LLMs, such as T0 , FLAN , and OPT-IML .