Simon Willison

Waymo doubles inaugural debt raise to $5B amid rising AI costs

Willison tests Mistral Large 4 SVG generation against three frontier rivals

Google DeepMind opens 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model under Apache 2.0

Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with 2,000-voice library and 30-second voice cloning

OpenAI Cuts Image Generation Latency by Half with ChatGPT Images 2.5, Adds Sketch Drawing Input

Tencent and Alibaba open-source drops compress China's frontier model cycle

Alibaba Open-Sources Qwen3.8-27B: Frontier-Class AI on 17GB of RAM

DeepSeek Open-Sources V4-Flash: 304B Model Rivals Claude Opus-4.8 at $0.14/M Input Tokens