Simon Willison

Creator of @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. Fellow at @JSKstanford. Collector of @nichemuseums. Usually hanging out with @natbat and @cleopaws. He/Him

Podcast

Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)

Oct 3, 2024

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104 min read

Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)

with OpenAI's Heads of Product, Developer Experience, and API tech, plus: full Sam Altman + Kevin Weill Q&A, Return of Simon Willison and Alistair Pullen

Latent.Space, +1

Podcast

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

Nov 7, 2023

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118 min read

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

We summon all friends of the pod, and past and future guests including leaders from Nvidia, Zapier, HumanLoop, Weights and Biases, MultiOn, Guardrails, Bloop.ai, Julius AI to process what happened.

Raza Habib, +4

Podcast

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

Jul 19, 2023

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64 min read

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

>2000 AI Engineers joined our emergency Space with Simon Willison and Alex Volkov. Discussing datasets, benchmarks, scaling laws, kremlinology, and predictions. Come for the Llama, stay for the drama!

Latent.Space, +5

Podcast

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

Jul 10, 2023

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115 min read

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

Code Augmented Inference is All You Need? How ChatGPT's new Code Interpreter model represents a 1000x capabilities leap thru spending more time writing code. Plus: Simon, Alex, and >10k AI Engineers!

Latent.Space, +2

Podcast

Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

Jun 14, 2023

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71 min read

Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

1400 Leading AI Engineers from Scale, Microsoft, Pinecone, Huggingface and more convene to discuss the June 2023 OpenAI updates and the emerging Code x LLM paradigms. Plus: Recursive Function Agents!

Riley Goodside, +3

Podcast

No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison

May 5, 2023

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38 min read

No Moat: Closed AI gets its Open Source wakeup call — ft. Simon Willison

Emergency Space: Live reactions to the leaked Google Moat memo, with 2700 devs listening in, ft. Simon + Travis. Plus: the Google Brain Drain, and how Python gets 3500x faster with Mojo.

Latent.Space, +2