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My notes on Kimi K3, plus some thoughts on what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark even while it becomes further detached from how good the models are at the things that matter (like agentic tool calling across longer conversations) https://simonwillison.net/2026/Ju…
Everybody's talking about open weights/models, I have thoughts 😊 Some of us have scars on top of scars in defining "open". It's a complicated, but know what you get with open weights/models. Because NONE of it is "open source." More here! www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-27…
Hi all! We’re running a survey at the Edge AI Foundation to map where physical AI is being deployed at the edge in defense—deployment, hardware gaps, and what's working. Findings will be presented in Washington in September and published shortly after. Thanks! 2kpyqv8opxp.type…
One thing I love about the current AI age is how we just keep re-inventing everything - today, Paramount's www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-17-t...
Not that you were asking, but I think I’m closer to @davidcrespo.bsky.social - this has been well covered philosophy in the Chinese Room thought experiment (among many others). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
i stopped reading this when it mentioned the ware usage figure in the second paragraph. That has since been thoroughly disproven (blog.andymasley.com/p/i-might-ha...) so i'm going to assume that the rest of the piece has similar fact checking rigor.
I wrote about FERC, AI data centers, ratepayers, and why physics does not care how neatly the invoice is allocated: distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-06-t...
Your laptop got 25% pricier this month and the chips didn't change. AI needs high-bandwidth memory, built on the same wafers as your RAM, so yours got requisitioned. In 1942 silk went to parachutes and women painted stocking seams on with eyeliner. Same move now, minus the ration coupon.
Do you? Do you really like connecting with local business owners? Who are currently exploring AI opportunities? DO YOU REALLY?
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