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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Simon Willison · llm tools, local models, ai engineering, coding
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison on LLMs · Beginner to advanced
Consistently useful notes, demos, model comparisons, and warnings about practical LLM use without product marketing gloss.
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LLM tools, Prompting, AI safety, Local models, Model selection
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Meta Llama
Meta Model API and Llama docs · Beginner to advanced
Official path into current Llama families, prompt formats, open-weight deployment, Meta's newer hosted Model API surface, and integration decisions for both local and managed workflows.
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Llama, Open models, Meta Model API, Muse Spark, Muse Code, Local models, Fine-tuning, Model deployment, Safety models
Ollama
Ollama docs · Beginner to intermediate
Practical route into running and testing local models on your own machine.
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Local models, LLM tools, AI engineering, Privacy
llama.cpp
llama.cpp examples · Intermediate to advanced
Core educational repo for understanding local inference, quantization, and efficient model running.
Topics
Local models, Inference, Quantization, AI engineering
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Simon Willison: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Talk · Simon Willison · Beginner to advanced
You want a grounded tour of current LLM tooling, model tradeoffs, and the practical ecosystem.
llm tools, local models, ai engineering, model selection, frontier models
Simon Willison on LLMs
Blog · Simon Willison · Beginner to advanced
Use this when you want Simon Willison's material for llm tools and related AI skills.
LLM tools, Prompting, AI safety, Local models, Model selection