LLM Releases

New large language models ship every week — frontier models, open-weight releases, fine-tuned variants, and benchmark improvements. Keeping up requires more than a headline feed; builders need context on capability shifts, pricing changes, and API availability.

This cluster covers new model announcements, open-weight releases, benchmark claims, and model update signals from frontier labs and open-source communities. Each signal carries a link to the primary source for hands-on evaluation.

Use this page to maintain a model watchlist: identify capability jumps, track open-weight availability, and decide which models deserve a test run against your current workloads.

13 signalsSorted by date, newest first

datasette-llm 0.1a9

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette…

toolmodelagentproduct
Oct 31, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reason…

toolmodelagentinfraproduct
Oct 26, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They'r…

modelinfraproduct
Oct 23, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm…

toolmodelproduct
Oct 18, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve a…

toolmodelinfraproduct
Oct 18, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

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