Simon Willison's Newsletter
The creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django on LLMs, tools and what actually works — his weblog, delivered as a newsletter.
Plus Kimi K3.1 Pro and GPT-6.1 Terra
Plus Muse Wonder and Gemini 4 Argon
Plus Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, and Python 3.15
Plus we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Plus Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Plus Gemini Live, and a pelican riding a bicycle in 1988
Plus a Datasette security release, and a Pluribus Fabergé egg
Plus Gemini 3.8 Flash - that’s a lot of pelicans riding bicycles!
