Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac(simonwillison.net)

113 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 27 comments

Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code(simonwillison.net)

184 points by simonw 1 year ago | 41 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things(simonwillison.net)

732 points by bilsbie 2 months ago | 343 comments

Simon Willison blog post reviewing Alibaba's Apache 2 licensed Qwen 3.8 27B vision LLM run locally, noting strong results but excessive default reasoning.

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining(simonwillison.net)

919 points by simonw 1 year ago | 405 comments

Simon Willison blog post describing how OpenAI's o3 model guesses where a photo was taken, testing it on a photo from El Granada, California.

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)(simonwillison.net)

544 points by simonw 1 year ago | 362 comments

Simon Willison blog post showing the GLM-4.5 Air model, 3-bit quantized for MLX, generating a working Space Invaders game in JavaScript on a 64GB laptop.

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3(simonwillison.net)

246 points by simonw 3 years ago | 62 comments