Latest / August 29, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published August 29, 2026, by Simon Willison and Lou Franco and Sebastian Raschka.
Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face . This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B, 21B…
In my post reviewing The Inner Game of Tennis, I wrote that I thought the book applied to any physical activity. I also think it could apply to language acquisition, because we speak and listen with our automatic mind. You don’t want a judging mind to be evaluating how well you…
Two free live book club Q&A sessions on September 3 about Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch and related reader questions.