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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Simon Willison 03 November 2026 13h ago
Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
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Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post", but it's paper-shaped) found that frontier models, in particular GPT-6 Astra, can both interpret and modify the raw weights of a machine learning model - literally a
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