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Simon Willison·· 2026-09-28

2026 in LLMs (so far)

2026 in LLMs (so far)

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On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk.

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