Quoting Ashlee Vance

Datasette Public Office Hours 31st Jan at 2pm Pacific We're running another Datasette Public Office Hours session on Friday 31st January at 2pm Pacific (more timezones here). We'll be featuring demos from the community again - take a look at the videos of the six demos from our last session for an idea of what to expect. If you have something you...

PyPI now supports project archival Neat new PyPI feature, similar to GitHub's archiving repositories feature. You can now mark a PyPI project as "archived", making it clear that no new releases are planned (though you can switch back out of that mode later if you need to). I like the sound of these future plans around this topic: Project archival...

Mistral Small 3 First model release of 2025 for French AI lab Mistral, who describe Mistral Small 3 as "a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license." More notably, they claim the following: Mistral Small 3 is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B, and is an excellent open replacement...

104. Technology offers remarkable tools to oversee and develop the world's resources. However, in some cases, humanity is increasingly ceding control of these resources to machines. Within some circles of scientists and futurists, there is optimism about the potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical form of AI that would...

Llama 4 is making great progress in training. Llama 4 mini is done with pre-training and our reasoning models and larger model are looking good too. Our goal with Llama 3 was to make open source competitive with closed models, and our goal for Llama 4 is to lead. Llama 4 will be natively multimodal -- it's an omni-model -- and it will have...