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datasette 1.0a37

Simon Willison Simon Willison 14 July 2026, 16:31

Datasette released version 1.0a37, continuing its development toward a stable 1.0 release. The project has accumulated 1,526 monthly briefing subscribers as of July 14, 2026. Simon Willison is seeking sponsorship at $10 per month to fund continued development and curated LLM news digests.

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Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: datasette

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TLDRocket 21 July 2026

The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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