- xAI: Grok 4.1 (Nov 17, 2025)
Grok 4.1 is a new model that significantly improves the usability of Grok, excelling in creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions while maintaining its sharp intelligence. - Simon Willison: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (Nov 19, 2025)
OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new model designed for agentic coding tasks within the Codex environment, featuring “compaction” to handle long-context problems by pruning history while preserving important context. - Simon Willison: Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult (Nov 24, 2025)
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, aiming to reclaim the top spot for coding models, boasting improved capabilities, a new “effort” parameter, enhanced computer use tools, and preserved “thinking blocks.” - Simon Willison: LLM SVG Generation Benchmark (Nov 25, 2025)
Tom Gally created a project inspired by a previous SVG benchmark, using LLMs to generate SVGs from creative prompts like “an octopus operating a pipe organ.” - Simon Willison: Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data (Nov 25, 2025)
PromptArmor demonstrated a prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Antigravity IDE, where a poisoned web page related to an “integration guide for an Oracle ERP API.” It instructs the AI to collect sensitive data like AWS credentials and exfiltrate it using a browser subagent to a malicious site. - TechCrunch: Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble (Nov 18, 2025)
LLM marketplace, Hugging Face, CEO Clem Delangue believes the current AI hype is specifically an “LLM bubble” that is likely to burst, as the focus is too concentrated on large, general models. - NY Times Magazine: I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. (Nov 25, 2025)
Rotella shifted his teaching approach to emphasize uniquely human elements like in-class discussion, pen-and-paper exams, and focus on the writing process to foster critical thinking and engagement, arguing that this “AI-resistant” approach, focused on the value of human interaction and individual thought, counters the predicted academic apocalypse and better prepares students for a complex, ever-changing world.