Simon Willison's Weblog

Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) (via) Extremely useful review of the last year in vision and multi-modal LLMs.

So much has happened! I'm particularly excited about the range of small open weight vision models that are now available. Models like gemma3-4b-it and Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct produce very impressive results and run happily on mid-range consumer hardware.

Recent articles

• Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website - 28th January 2026
• ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files - 26th January 2026
• Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents - 23rd January 2026

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