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llm-echo 0.5a0

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Release: llm-echo 0.5a0 New -o thinking 1 option to help test against LLM 0.32a0 and higher. This plugin provides a fake model called 'echo' for LLM which doesn't run an LLM at all - it's useful for w

toolssimon-willison
5 May 2026
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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The

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applicationssimon-willison
5 May 2026
Model Releases

April 2026 newsletter

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I just sent out the April edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this month's newsletter: Opus 4.7 and GPT-

model-releasessimon-willison
4 May 2026
Model Releases

Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery

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Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery IBM released their Granite 4.1 family of LLMs a few days ago. They're Apache 2.0 licensed and come in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built by Gr

model-releasessimon-willison
4 May 2026
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Quoting Andy Masley

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[...] Between 2000 and 2024, farmers sold in total a Colorado-sized chunk of land all on their own, 77 times all land on data center property in 2028, and grew more food than ever on what was left. No

toolssimon-willison
4 May 2026
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Redis Array Playground

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Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO, ARINSER

model-releasessimon-willison
4 May 2026
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TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo

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Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little more deta

model-releasessimon-willison
4 May 2026
Model Releases

Quoting Anthropic

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We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

model-releasessimon-willison
3 May 2026
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Sightings

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/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

model-releasessimon-willison
2 May 2026
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iNaturalist Sightings

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Tool: iNaturalist Sightings I wanted to see my iNaturalist observations - across two separate accounts - grouped by when they occurred. I'm camping this weekend so I built this entirely on my phone us

model-releasessimon-willison
1 May 2026
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Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal

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Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal The latest version of OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent adds their own version of the Ralph loop: you can now set a /goal and Codex will keep on looping until it evaluates t

agentssimon-willison
30 Apr 2026
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Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities

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Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities The UK's AI Security Institute previously evaluated Claude Mythos: now they've evaluated GPT-5.5 for finding security vulnerability and found it t

model-releasessimon-willison
30 Apr 2026
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Quoting Andrew Kelley

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It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is using LLM and who is not. I'm sure we didn't catch 100% of LLM-assisted PRs over the past few months, but the kind of mistakes humans make are fun

agentssimon-willison
30 Apr 2026
Safety

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

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Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. Eng

safetysimon-willison
30 Apr 2026
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We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps

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We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps Matt Webb: I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?) The les

model-releasessimon-willison
30 Apr 2026
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llm 0.32a0

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LLM 0.32a0 is an alpha release of Simon Willison's LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing large language models, featuring consequential architectural changes. The release includes two key chan

toolssimon-willison
29 Apr 2026
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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

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I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versio

model-releasessimon-willison
29 Apr 2026
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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a '13B langua

model-releasessimon-willison
28 Apr 2026
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Quoting Matthew Yglesias

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Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that the

agentssimon-willison
28 Apr 2026
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Quoting OpenAI Codex base_instructions

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Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. — OpenAI Codex base_instruct

model-releasessimon-willison
28 Apr 2026
Tutorials

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!

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What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support for

tutorialssimon-willison
28 Apr 2026
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microsoft/VibeVoice

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microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b

model-releasessimon-willison
27 Apr 2026
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Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices

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Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a 'try this out now' prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imp

toolssimon-willison
27 Apr 2026
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Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

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For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha

agentssimon-willison
27 Apr 2026
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GPT-5.5 prompting guide

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GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications

model-releasessimon-willison
25 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Quoting Romain Huet

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Since GPT-5.4, we’ve unified Codex and the main model into a single system, so there’s no separate coding line anymore. GPT-5.5 takes this further, with strong gains in agentic coding, computer use, a

model-releasessimon-willison
25 Apr 2026
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WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

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@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the 'WHY ARE YOU LIK

model-releasessimon-willison
25 Apr 2026
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.

model-releasessimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
Model Releases

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V

model-releasessimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
Agents

It's a big one

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This week's edition of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog delivered to your inbox) features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding i

agentssimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
Model Releases

llm 0.31

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Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5. #1418 New option to set the text verbosity level for GPT-5+ OpenAI models: -o verbosity low. Values are low, medium, high. New option for se

model-releasessimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
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russellromney/honker

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russellromney/honker 'Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics' for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It

toolssimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
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Serving the For You feed

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Serving the For You feed One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom 'feed' implementation and make it available to other users - effectively enabling custom alg

toolssimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
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The people do not yearn for automation

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The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a

toolssimon-willison
24 Apr 2026
Model Releases

A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API

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GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually

model-releasessimon-willison
23 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web

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LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, us

model-releasessimon-willison
23 Apr 2026
Tutorials

Quoting Maggie Appleton

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[...] if you ever needed another reason to learn in public by digital gardening or podcasting or streaming or whathaveyou, add on that people will assume you’re more competent than you are. This will

tutorialssimon-willison
23 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

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Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans On the same day as Claude Code's temporary will-they-won't-they 100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, they won't), here's the latest on GitHub Copilot pricing

model-releasessimon-willison
22 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing

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Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to ad

model-releasessimon-willison
22 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Quoting Bobby Holley

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As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic, we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 v

model-releasessimon-willison
22 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model

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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model Big claims from Qwen about their latest open weight model: Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previo

model-releasessimon-willison
22 Apr 2026
Tools

Quoting Andreas Påhlsson-Notini

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AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human orig

toolssimon-willison
21 Apr 2026
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scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

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scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles. (To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning

toolssimon-willison
21 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)

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OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 today, their latest image generation model. On the livestream Sam Altman said that the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent to jumping from GPT-3 to G

model-releasessimon-willison
21 Apr 2026
Model Releases

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tel

model-releasessimon-willison
20 Apr 2026
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llm-openrouter 0.6

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Release: llm-openrouter 0.6 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRout

toolssimon-willison
20 Apr 2026
Tools

SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette

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TIL: SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette I put together some notes on patterns for fetching data from a Datasette instance directly into Google Sheets - using the importdata()

toolssimon-willison
20 Apr 2026
Agents

Headless everything for personal AI

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Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services direct

agentssimon-willison
19 Apr 2026
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