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  • GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

    My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News.I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv...

    Simon Willison1 min read

  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

    I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote. Tags: ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, live-blog

    Simon Willison6 min read

  • Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

    xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable through the Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs.

    AWS ML Blog11 min read

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles.

    Simon Willison2 min read

  • Quoting @joedaroo

    To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement. Security posture takes time to develop.

    Simon Willison2 min read

  • Sarvam Vision 2.1: The OCR Model Built for the Documents India Actually Has

    For the first time, an OCR model reads Indian languages as fluently as English documents. Sarvam Vision 2.1 breaks a long-standing trade-off. Indian businesses had to choose between structural document parsing and script recognition. Never both. Finance teams automating invoices faced this.

    Analytics Vidhya8 min read

  • Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared

    Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too.Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic’s Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover, with human…

    IEEE Spectrum AI5 min read

  • Quoting Muse AI Agent

    Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me.

    Simon Willison1 min read

  • 2026 in LLMs (so far)

    On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026.

    Simon Willison22 min read

  • Kākāpō Party

    Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026.

    Simon Willison2 min read

  • Quoting John Gruber

    Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot.

    Simon Willison1 min read

  • RAG Isn't an Agent — I Built the Layer Between Retrieval and Action

    RAG retrieves. Agents act. I built both separately, connected them explicitly, and ran the same nine tasks through all three systems. The post RAG Isn't an Agent — I Built the Layer Between Retrieval and Action appeared first on Towards Data Science.

    Towards Data Science21 min read

  • Podcast: The Future of AI: from Enterprise Adoption to Open Source Sovereignty

    In this episode, Meryem Arik, Clara Higuera Cabañes, and Jeff Smith demystify the current state of AI in the enterprise. The discussion navigates the "industrial revolution" moment in AI adoption, exploring why companies are rushing toward these technologies to maintain competitive advantages while…

    InfoQ - AI/ML/Data43 min read

  • 10 Solved Generative AI Projects to Boost your Profile

    Projects are the bridge between learning and becoming a professional. While theory builds fundamentals, recruiters value candidates who can solve real problems. A strong, diverse portfolio showcases practical skills, technical range, and problem-solving ability.

    Analytics Vidhya7 min read

  • AI Voice Cloning Grows Up: Consent, Watermarks, and Proof

    Create AI videos with interactive avatars. Get started for FREE → Key takeaways AI voice cloning is no longer mainly a quality problem. A short audio sample can now produce a convincing copy of someone’s voice. The harder questions are no longer about whether voice cloning works.

    D-ID Blog7 min read

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