Simon Willison's September newsletter: Fable-class models, a pricing war, LLMs for math
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-10-04
Simon Willison sent his September sponsors-only newsletter covering: more Fable-class models, a pricing war, 3D graphics/Blender and pixel art, LLMs coming for mathematics, a wave of accidental cyberattacks, the vulnapocalypse hitting Datasette, his current tooling, and a "2026 in LLMs so far" roundup. Sponsors get it a month early; August's issue is a free preview.
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