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Gemini Decisions API

Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions (yes/no, choice, and…

aws-emulator

aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents…

Using wearables to enable cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) risk profiling for personalized coaching

Health & Bioscience

Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag

Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag I've been wanting a better way to browse my collection of vibe-coded tools (244 and counting) for a while. I had a few Fable 5.2 credits left over before my weekly reset so I set it…

llm 0.37.2

Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm openai…

Intelligent Delivery: Making Every Unit of Compute Serve Better Ads

Ads ranking models are growing toward LLM scale faster than the hardware to run them can keep up. An extra unit of compute has more impact on some ad requests, models, and chips than on others. The challenge is deciding…

The first prompt engineers run when a new LLM drops

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Live From W-JAX (German): LLM-Assisted Migrations and Modernizations: from Museum to Mainstream

LLM-assisted legacy modernization: How do you move from COBOL, PL/1, or outdated Java toward a modern application? This W-JAX session demonstrates the process through live coding, combining incremental refactoring with…

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video

Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute"…

ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model

JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models

uzair aslam: PostgreSQL Vector Search with pgvector: Hybrid Search in Next.js

Build PostgreSQL vector search with pgvector and Next.js. Compare keyword and hybrid ranking, enforce tenant access, and reproduce filtered HNSW recall. A support engineer searches for AUTH-4017. The most useful result…

A Tribute to Open Source - Lucy Sweet, Anthropic (ASL)

Connect with the cloud native community and explore CNCF events: https://kubecon.io A Tribute to Open Source - Lucy Sweet, Anthropic (ASL)

Pods in the Wild: Reinforcement Learning... Sunil Arora, Google & Ravin Kumar, Google Deepmind (ASL)

Connect with the cloud native community and explore CNCF events: https://kubecon.io Pods in the Wild: Reinforcement Learning on Kubernetes with OpenRL - Sunil Arora, Google & Ravin Kumar, Google Deepmind (ASL) What do…

Google gooses Python AI performance by… removing Python

Joab Jackson at The Register reports that Google has open sourced XSE, the XLA Serving Engine, a C++ runtime for serving machine learning models without a Python interpreter in the path. It’s the newest piece of the…

😸 WATCH: AI Changed More in 4 Years Than You Remember

United Is Blocking AI Agents. The Fight Is Over Who Owns You(r Data).

United’s restrictions on personal AI agents expose a growing business conflict. If your assistant knows your preferences and chooses where to buy, companies could lose their place at the center of the customer…

The Dark Edition of my new book is now available on Amazon!

Hey! The Dark Edition of my new book is now available on Amazon!