Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local model: End-to-end Agentic Task Completion. Muse Glimmer achieves strong success rates on full-task benchmarks including DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 10 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Managed Deep Agents gives developers a managed way to build, run, and deploy Deep Agents with built-in runtime, streaming, sandboxes, evals, memory, and auth.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 13 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, but given the weights are available for both April's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro and July's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 it seems likely.…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 12 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 12 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Learn what AI agents are, how they work in an LLM loop, and where workflows fit so you can build reliable, production-ready autonomous systems.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 12 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Production monitoring for LLM agents requires new observability tools. Learn how to trace, evaluate, and improve AI agents at scale.
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Learn how agent observability enables effective evaluation of AI agents. Understand tracing, debugging reasoning, and performance insights to iterate and improve agent behavior.
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A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced by a frontier model, replay it into a weaker sibling, jailbreak the weaker model, and recover the stronger model’s hidden reasoning in plaintext You can see an example…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 11 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
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Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.
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We benchmarked NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard on 145 agent tasks. Only 7% of turns needed a frontier model, and routing cut cost 74% for six points of accuracy.
Summary published by LangChain Blog · 11 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.
Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 10 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
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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 Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic restored access on July 1, 2026 (Anthropic's statement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access ). These events are after…
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Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of strings and then applying zlib or zstd compression to the whole thing? Surely that would compress really well due to all of the…
Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 9 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗