Some LLM takeaways for 2025: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed
It's that time. It's been a hell of a year. — At the start we barely had reasoning models. X: Simon Willison / @simonw : Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - th...
OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode
here's how Aman Kumar / PhoneArena : OpenAI has finally addressed a major problem with ChatGPT's voice mode feature NDTV Profit : ChatGPT Voice Now Built Into Main Interface: What's New For Users? Sar...
First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks
a web browser with ChatGPT built in, not bolted on. The browser is the agent now. Tabs are prompts. The search bar is dead. Welcome to the post-URL era. P.S the browser wrote this on its own Arlan / @...
Anthropic announces Claude Skills, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve how it performs specific tasks
here's how they could supercharge your workflow Robert Brown / Implicator.ai : Claude taps Microsoft 365 as the connector war heats up X: Olivia Moore / @omooretweets : Like many of Anthropic's produc...
Nvidia DGX Spark hands-on: trades performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, the ecosystem is a big selling point, the design is standard, and more
What It Means for NVDA Stock and AI Crypto Sentiment Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : Early reviews suggest Nvidia may have found another way to sell its chips with the DGX Spark Robert Brown / Im...
Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API
Google released a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model today, specially designed … Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini ...
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs
Introduction — Qwen3-Omni is the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. Prasanth Aby Thomas / Computerworld : New Alibaba model Qwen3-Omni heightens competition in multimodal...
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning
“Don't use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn't. — I wrote about how good OpenAI's o3 was at using … X: @simonw , @simonw , and @simonw Mastodon: @remixt...
Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring
ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/c... Tim Duffy / @timfduffy.com : Google just released a 270M parameter Gemma model. As a tiny model lover I'm excited. Models in this size class are usually barely coherent...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...