Models & research

New models, papers, benchmarks and capability results.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Simon Willison's Weblog

llm-gemini 0.36

Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and…

Google Gemini updates

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

Today, we’re making Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers.

Simon Willison's Weblog

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents…

Simon Willison's Weblog

Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code base as…

Monday, November 9, 2026

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 on AWS

Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 are now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Learn what's new in both models, why Fable 5.2 matters for your technical workloads, and how to get started building…

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Simon Willison's Weblog

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as…

MIT Technology Review

How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to…

Monday, November 2, 2026

OpenAI

Scaling Git at OpenAI

How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Friday, October 30, 2026

Thursday, October 29, 2026

OpenAI

How we detect frontier model misalignment

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Google Gemini updates

8 examples of Gemini 4 Argon in action

From deep research to interactive design, here are eight examples of what Gemini 4 Argon, our most intelligent model yet, is capable of.

IEEE Spectrum

I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened

Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with…

Monday, October 26, 2026

Friday, October 23, 2026

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Allen Institute for AI

A crop-mapping benchmark for the tropics

PLANTEUR extends the PASTIS crop-mapping benchmark to six tropical regions to help evaluate geospatial models across more diverse agricultural systems.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

IEEE Spectrum

Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?

When Anthropic retired its Claude Opus 3 language model in January 2026, the company’s researchers conducted a “retirement interview” with the model. Opus 3 expressed a desire for a place where it “could share…

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Monday, October 19, 2026

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Tuesday, October 13, 2026