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2d ago
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“"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/116…”
“Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...”
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Sung Kim: Something tells me Anthropic ain't worth $2T. www.ft.com/content/1163...
Gus: why do you think so? (not a challenge!!, real curiosity)
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18d ago
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beware software brain essay
3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“I really like how @reckless.bsky.social described this: "The people do not yearn for automation" www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...”
“> Even taking the time to consider how much of your life is captured in databases makes people unhappy. No one wants to be surveilled constantly, and especially not in a way that makes tech companies even more powerful.”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“I wrote about why I think they've hit product market fit back in May simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...”
“I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit - Simon Willison simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/pr… #AI #finances”
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Ed Zitron: So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
Simon Willison: Well yeah... your replies are filled with people who seem to think those 2025 numbers represent the current financial state of the company, when they very clearly do not
Ed Zitron: Anthropic fans don’t even try and defend the company anymore they just look at you like this
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2d ago
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
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“Not just Chinese companies - Elon admitted to distillation for XAI in court back in April www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...”
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13d ago
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Simon Willison AI budget caps essay
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“Just published this post about how we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything https://t.co/L6XEYpF4uZ”
2026 LLM year review essay
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“I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so …”
Simon Willison llm-openai-decisions release
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“I released an LLM plugin for sending prompts to OpenAI's new Jev-clone decision model that's based on GPT-6 Luna simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/6/l...”
OpenAI DevDay 2026 held
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“I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past three DevDay events, I'm running a live blog where I'll be posting updates during the keynote, which starts in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/...”
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5d ago
Willison Python 3.15 upgrade notes
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“Shared some notes on Python 3.15, using it with uv, and features from Python 3.11 I'm excited to use now that 3.10 is no longer the minimum supported version for my own projects simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/...”
Qwen3 27B model release
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“Have you seen how reasoning levels for Qwen actually work? It's pretty funny, the level you select gets used to dynamically assemble a system prompt effectively telling it to "think carefully" huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”
WWC26-NA 2026 LLMs conference talk
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“Here's the video version on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkI...”
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17d ago
gist report document
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“Here are detailed (Astra-generated) notes on what I ran gist.github.com/simonw/88baf...”
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8d ago
Willison voice-built blog feature post
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“I built a new feature for my blog entirely by voice with Codex Desktop, while I was cooking dinner simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/b...”
Claude Haiku 5.5 launch
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“Pelicans and a bunch of notes on the pricing of the new Claude Haiku 5.5 simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/c...”
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“Feels a bit self-serving to say it, but my blog has a LOT of material on coding agents simonwillison.net/tags/coding-... - plus an in-progress guide that I need to invest more work in simonwillison.net/guides/agent...”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
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“Feels a bit self-serving to say it, but my blog has a LOT of material on coding agents simonwillison.net/tags/coding-... - plus an in-progress guide that I need to invest more work in simonwillison.net/guides/agent...”
