Veo 3 is really fun to use for historical what-ifs.
I put together a 1940s video newsreel as if Project Habakkuk, the World War Two British plan to build a giant aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mix of ice and woodpulp, had actually happened.
The new voice model from ElevenLabs is interesting. I put it against one of the hardest pieces for reading aloud - the final verse of Eliot's Wasteland, which uses four languages, a nursery rhyme & abrupt changes in tone.
It required a few attempts to get, but this was good.
Releasing the Energy-Book 🔋 from its first appendix's chapter, where I explain how I create my figures. 🎨
Feel free to report errors via the issues' tracker, contribute to the exercises, and show me what you can draw, via the discussion section. 🥳
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Microsoft released a new terminal text editor! It's called Microsoft Edit, it's open source, it's tiny (about 250KB as a Rust binary) and it works cross-platform. They built it for Windows 11 - I've been trying it out on my Mac and it's a nice alternative to Vim or nano
There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/an…
We are just a little bit faster than@nvidia GPUs on Qwen 235B...18X faster. Cerebras inference is blazing fast...come build cool stuff on Cerebras inference
First off, it is good to see a postmortem from xAI, a step towards much needed transparency.
Second, an example of how even small changes to system prompts, interacting with users and outside context in the wild, can lead to unexpected outcomes in advanced LLMs.