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Simon Willison's Weblog · 15h ago

Mojo🔥 is now open source

[**Mojo🔥 is now open source**](https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source) Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release [since May

Modular Blog · 22h ago

Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!

Mojo🔥 is now open source!

Modular Blog · 1d ago

Modular: ModCon 2026: Open source, open cloud, open silicon

ModCon 2026: Open source, open cloud, open silicon

Modular Blog · 1d ago

Modular: Modular and Qualcomm: Same code, new silicon

Modular and Qualcomm: Same code, new silicon

Simon Willison's Weblog · 1d 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**](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b) That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind

Simon Willison's Weblog · 1d ago

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

[**We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility**](https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/)

Simon Willison's Weblog · 2d ago

Markdown SVG upgrades

I started building my [markdown-svg-renderer](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer) tool [in May](https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon#markdown-svg-renderer.html), but I've since

Simon Willison's Weblog · 2d ago

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday's big release was [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B), an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to

AI Futures Project · 2d ago

Q2.5 2026 Timelines Update: Uplift and Revenue

More methods for forecasting coding automation

Simon Willison's Weblog · 2d ago

Quoting Dario Amodei

> I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks.  I think

Simon Willison's Weblog · 3d ago

CORS Chat

**Tool:** [CORS Chat](https://tools.simonwillison.net/cors-chat) I built this today ([with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh](https://gist.github.com/simonw/92a1d97773744b45bf259e003013cf36)) to help test Qwen 3.8

Simon Willison's Weblog · 4d ago

Northern Gannet

 Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US This is Morris. Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern

Simon Willison's Weblog · 4d ago

Don't classify. Hallucinate!

[**Don't classify. Hallucinate!**](https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications) I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My

Simon Willison's Weblog · 5d ago

sqlite-utils 4.2.1

**Release:** [sqlite-utils 4.2.1](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/4.2.1) Fixes a crashing bug in [sqlite-utils 4.2](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/sqlite-utils/). I'd

Simon Willison's Weblog · 5d ago

sqlite-utils 4.2

**Release:** [sqlite-utils 4.2](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/4.2) Lots of improvements in this one relating to the [table.transform()

Simon Willison's Weblog · 6d ago

alchemy-utils 0.1a1

**Release:** [alchemy-utils 0.1a1](https://github.com/simonw/alchemy-utils/releases/tag/0.1a1) Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, [see

Simon Willison's Weblog · 6d ago

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)

[**DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)**](https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because

Simon Willison's Weblog · 6d ago

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. I mean... asking AI to fix it. Unfortunately, it seems like not even Fable can figure it out. > >

Braintrust Blog · 7d ago

Compare Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4

Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash are now built-in models, alongside GLM-5.2, in playgrounds, prompts, and scorers.

Simon Willison's Weblog · 7d ago

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

[**There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text**](https://sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text) Sophie Alpert shares her

Simon Willison's Weblog · 7d ago

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

[**Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs**](https://stolen-thoughts.com/) A vanity domain name (`stolen-thoughts.com`) for [a neat paper](https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.09867): >

Modular Blog · 8d ago

Modular: Modular 26.5: Mojo 1.0 is here!

Modular 26.5: Mojo 1.0 is here!

Simon Willison's Weblog · 8d ago

Introducing Muse Glimmer

[**Introducing Muse Glimmer**](https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model) Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean

Simon Willison's Weblog · 9d ago

Quoting OpenClaw

> The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4

Simon Willison's Weblog · 9d ago

Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

> Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the

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