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I think it's a bit of an improvement on the Spark 1.1 pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/9/muse-spark-1-1/

Lol is that a helmet? Clearly they're taking the Anthropic path and are safety pilling their models

I wonder if at this point the labs ha.. please Simon, stop this bs everytime. Its time.

This one is actually a pretty good case for the continuing value of the benchmark, because it lets me visually compare Spark (8th April), Spark 1.1 (9th July), and Spark 1.2 (5th August): https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mseqv5z4qk2...