I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model – it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't
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Browser Video Recording Mechanism Development Exploration
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I've tinkered a little other video recording from browser sessions (which you can convert to gif later) but I've not yet found a mechanism I like for that
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Meta AI Tools: New Features or Pre-Muse Launch?
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Meta’s Muse Spark Models and Code Interpreter Tools Explored
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Pelicans for Meta's new Muse Spark models – plus I did a bit of a deep dive into the Code Interpreter and fascinating "container.visual_grounding" tools in their http://
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Search Index Selection and Content Crawling Strategy
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I care because understanding which index helps me understand things like what I need to submit content for crawling to, what search agents I should allow in robots.txt, how frequently I can expect the index to update, and generally what kind of quality and freshness I can expect
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AI Chat Tools Search Engine Documentation Transparency Request
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The feature I most want from AI labs right now is documentation on which underlying search engines they use when their chat tools run a search OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta AI all have search and I have NO IDEA what index they are using (I would hope tha Gemini uses Google!)
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SVG Animation and CSS in GLM 5.1 Generative AI Model
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SVG has animation abilities baked in, but GLM 5.1 also embedded it in an HTML page and added some CSS animation
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MoE Architecture and Streaming Experts Integration
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It's a MoE though so maybe someone will get streaming experts to work for it
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Running Large AI Models on Mac Studio and GPU Servers
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I expect you could cram it into a 512GB Mac Studio – and there are quants that light run on 256GB with inches to spare Other than that it's huge NVIDIA GPU servers
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AI Image Generation Capabilities: Opossum on E-Scooter Example
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And for the "they're training on your pelican now!" skeptics, here's what I got for NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 7 avril 2026
Comments on that one include /* Earring sparkle */, <!– Opossum fur gradient –>, <!– Distant treeline silhouette – Virginia pines –>… pic.twitter.com/ESgkcHL75JAnd for the "they're training on your pelican now!" skeptics, here's what I got for NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER Comments on that one include /* Earring sparkle */, ,