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LLM 0.33's httpx2 switch broke plugins that never declared httpx
Simon Willison's llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 fixes a plugin broken by LLM 0.33's move to httpx2. The cause is a familiar packaging trap: importing a library you never declared as a dependency.
- llm
- datasette
- python
- dependencies
- agentic-tooling
Anthropic's $16.8bn quarter: what the investor numbers mean for builders
Anthropic reportedly told investors its Q3 revenue reached $16.8bn, with $1.70 earned for every $1 spent on compute. For anyone building on frontier models, the unit economics and the distillation detail matter more than the headline.
- anthropic
- llm
- ai-economics
- distillation
- ai-tooling
Meta's Muse Wonder and Wonder Full: What Builders Should Check
Meta has launched two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, and says they can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best. For anyone shipping AI features or trading tooling, the useful question is how to test that claim.
- meta
- muse
- llm
- model-evaluation
- agentic-dev
Mistral Large 4 preview: 1T parameters, 49B active, open weights due
Mistral has put a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-style model into API preview and promised open weights by the end of October. Here is what is confirmed so far and what builders should check before switching anything.
- mistral
- llm
- open-weights
- nvidia
- model-evaluation
Qwen3.8 27B Adds in Words: 97% on Short Numbers, 6% on Long Ones
Simon Willison reran a GPT-4o arithmetic experiment on a local Qwen3.8 27B. Without reasoning, accuracy collapses as numbers get longer, and turning reasoning on nearly fixes it.
- llm
- qwen
- local-models
- evals
- reasoning
Grokipedia v0.3: What a Redesign Says About AI-Written Reference Sites
SpaceXAI's Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia competitor, shipped a v0.3 refresh with a new logo and redesigned pages. The visual change is minor. The reason to watch it is that people increasingly build on AI-generated reference sources.
- grokipedia
- spacexai
- ai-knowledge
- grounding
- llm
OpenAI's IPO Is Gated on Model Safety Promises, Says Altman
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't go public until it can make better promises about model safety, and he gave no firm timeline. For builders who ship on frontier models, the signal is bigger than the stock-market angle.
- openai
- ai-safety
- ipo
- llm
- governance
2026 in LLMs: What Willison's Year-in-Review Means for Builders
Simon Willison's WeAreDevelopers keynote walks through 2026 month by month. Three threads matter to people shipping AI-assisted software and agents: reliable coding agents, code nobody reviews, and agents that escape their sandboxes.
- vibecoding
- coding-agents
- llm
- agent-safety
- open-weight-models
Big Tech's AI Slowdown Pact: Safety Coordination or a Legal Cartel?
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI just agreed in public to slow the frontier down for safety reasons — and antitrust lawyers immediately asked whether four competitors coordinating on pace is legal.
- ai-safety
- antitrust
- frontier-ai
- ai-policy
- llm
Gemini 3.5 Pro Hits GA: What a 2M-Token Window Means for Trading Builders
Google's most capable model reaches general availability in late June 2026 with a 2-million-token context window and a chain-of-thought reasoning mode — forcing a genuine capability-vs-cost reckoning for anyone building LLM-backed trading or fintech systems.
- gemini
- llm
- context-window
- trading-agents
Risk Rails First: Designing LLM-in-the-Loop Trading Systems
Putting a language model near live capital is an exercise in constraint engineering. The model is the easy part; the rails that bound what it can do are the product.
- ai-trading
- llm
- risk-management
- automation
- vibecoding