Simon Willison’s Weblog

2nd April 2026

Release llm-gemini 0.30 — LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models

New models gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview, gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it. See my notes on Gemma 4.

Posted 2nd April 2026 at 6:25 pm

Recent articles

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
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One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 - 5th August 2026

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 2nd April 2026.

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