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Mon, Sep 28, 2026- π¬ research
2026 in LLMs (so far)
Simon Willison reflects on how AI coding agents became reliable daily tools, urging creators to be much more ambitious with what they build.
2026 in LLMs (so far)
Simon Willison reflects on how AI coding agents became reliable daily tools, urging creators to be much more ambitious with what they build.
Source: Simon Willison
KΔkΔpΕ Party
See how combining Claude with Claude Code can turn a fun idea into a live interactive web animation and automate recording it to video.
Source: Simon Willison
Pixel Canary is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
Vercel has released Pixel Canary, a new experimental AI model tuned for frontend coding and Next.js development that is currently free to test.
Source: Vercel / v0 News
Inside Chats: How Lovable's Agents Work Together
Lovable revealed the tech behind its multi-agent Chats feature, showing how it safely separates brainstorming from live app building.
Source: Lovable Blog
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
Simon Willison and Jesse Vincent are hosting an informal meetup in San Francisco focused on hands-on experiments with coding agents.
Source: Simon Willison
GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna models are now live on Vercel AI Gateway, giving builders powerful, cost-effective options for coding and agent workflows.
Source: Vercel / v0 News
Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve
Vercel has added Grok 4.7 to its AI Gateway, letting developers use the model across coding tools with flexible reasoning options.
Source: Vercel / v0 News
llm-keys-ui 0.1
A new tool called llm-keys-ui lets developers safely add secret API keys to remote coding setups without pasting them into AI chat windows.
Source: Simon Willison
Spend Management expands to Enterprise Flexible Commitment plans
Vercel expanded its budget-tracking spend management controls to enterprise accounts with flexible commitment plans.
Source: Vercel / v0 News
GLM 5.3 FlashX now available on AI Gateway
Vercel added GLM 5.3 FlashX to AI Gateway, giving builders a high-speed model option for responsive apps and coding agents.
Source: Vercel / v0 News
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