August 17, 2026
Simon Willison
Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash , gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001 . The plu
Simon Willison
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs 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
Simon Willison
Introducing Muse Glimmer 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 mode
TLDR AI
Gemini 3.7 🤖, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast ⚡, Anthropic $2T IPO 💰 (TLDR AI) — read the full story for details.
Hugging Face Blog
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets (Hugging Face Blog) — read the full story for details.
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