I think they're using AI manual labeling teams in China, I believe they have a growing domestic industry for that
@simonw
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8B Model Multi-Turn Tool Calling Capabilities
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I'd really love to see an 8B model with reliable multi-turn tool calling, if one exists I've not experienced it yet
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DeepSeek-R1 Model Renaming Controversy and Version Changes
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(Honestly I'm still salty about that time you renamed the deepseek-r1:8B to point at DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B when it had previously pointed at DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B)
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Model Tagging Practices: Qwen3-30B Versioning Confusion
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I really want you to be more careful with your tag designs! Now there's a Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 but you've already burned the qwen3:30b tag on Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
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DeepSeek’s Quiet Months: Latest R1-0528 Model Family
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… and I didn't even mention DeepSeek! They've had a quiet couple of months, their last model release was the DeepSeek-R1-0528 family back in May
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Chinese AI Labs Release Major Models: Kimi, GLM, Qwen
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July has been a truly incredible month for model releases from China – Moonshot (Kimi K2), http://
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Pelican Benchmark: Five-Attempt Model Selection Process
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I've been meaning to do a version of the pelican benchmark where each model gets five attempts and then something picks the "best" one which moves on to the next round
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Qwen3 Releases Five Major Model Updates in Nine Days
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It's been a very busy 9 days for Qwen! Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 – 21st July
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct – 22nd July
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 – 25th July
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 – 29th July
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Qwen3-30B Models Generate Pelican Bicycle Art Comparison
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On the left the pelican on a bicycle from Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, on the right the pelican from Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
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Qwen 3 30B Model Successfully Generates Functional Space Invaders Game
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Not a great pelican, but it did write me a functional version of space invaders (unlike yesterday's non-thinking 30B-A3B which produced a game that didn't quite work) https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qw
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