Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products:
3.5 Flash is available today to billi…
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool.
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I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last …
Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery
IBM released their Granite 4.1 family of LLMs a few days ago. They’re Apache 2.0 licensed and come in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes.
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built by Granite team member Yousaf Shah describes the tr…
@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark:
I feel like we need to stack these tests now
I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS” sign of its own accord and it did – …
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
Both models are 1 …
GPT-5.5 is out. It’s available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I’ve had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually the case these days, it’s hard to put into wor…
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Big claims from Qwen about their latest open weight model:
Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-39…
scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles
I firmly approve of Steve Cosman’s efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.
(To be fair, most of the examples I’ve published count as poisoning too.)
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, training-data, pelican-riding-a-bicycle
Release: llm-openrouter 0.6
llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire.
I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there…
For anyone who has been taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model releases – Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Alibaba and Claude Opus 4.7 from Anthropic.
Here’s t…