AI Models & Releases on Osmond van Hemert — Senior Software Engineer | AI, Security, Infrastructurehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/series/ai-models--releases/Recent content in AI Models & Releases on Osmond van Hemert — Senior Software Engineer | AI, Security, InfrastructureHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Osmond van Hemert. All rights reserved.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000Google Gemini 2.0 — A New Chapter in Multimodal AIhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/251211-google-gemini-2-multimodal-ai/Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/251211-google-gemini-2-multimodal-ai/Google launches Gemini 2.0 with native multimodal capabilities, and the implications for developers are significant.GPT-5 Is Here — A Developer's First Look at What Actually Changedhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250807-gpt5-launch-developer-implications/Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250807-gpt5-launch-developer-implications/OpenAI launches GPT-5 with significant improvements. Here’s what matters for developers beyond the marketing.OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini — Reasoning Models Get Realhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250417-openai-o3-o4-mini-reasoning-models/Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250417-openai-o3-o4-mini-reasoning-models/OpenAI releases o3 and o4-mini reasoning models, bringing chain-of-thought inference to mainstream developer workflows.Claude 3.7 Sonnet — Extended Thinking Changes the Game for AI-Assisted Developmenthttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250306-claude-3-7-sonnet-extended-thinking/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250306-claude-3-7-sonnet-extended-thinking/Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces extended thinking, letting the model reason step-by-step before responding — and the implications for developer workflows are significant.Claude 3.5 Gets a Computer — Anthropic's 'Computer Use' and the Future of AI Agentshttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250220-anthropic-computer-use-ai-agents/Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/250220-anthropic-computer-use-ai-agents/Anthropic’s computer use capability lets Claude interact with desktop applications like a human. What does this mean for automation, testing, and the future of AI agents?Google Launches Gemini 2.0 Flash — The Multi-Modal AI Race Accelerateshttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241212-google-gemini-2-flash/Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241212-google-gemini-2-flash/Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash brings native tool use, multimodal output, and agentic capabilities. A look at what this means for the competitive AI landscape.OpenAI Launches o1 Full Model and $200/Month ChatGPT Pro — The Reasoning Era Beginshttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241205-openai-o1-full-model-chatgpt-pro/Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241205-openai-o1-full-model-chatgpt-pro/OpenAI kicks off its ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ event with the full o1 reasoning model and a new $200/month ChatGPT Pro tier. What this means for developers building with AI.ChatGPT Search Is Here — Should Google Be Worried?https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241031-chatgpt-search-launches/Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241031-chatgpt-search-launches/OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search, integrating real-time web search directly into its chatbot. The implications for search, SEO, and how we find information are enormous.Claude Gets Hands — Anthropic's Computer Use Changes the AI Gamehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241024-anthropic-claude-computer-use/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/241024-anthropic-claude-computer-use/Anthropic’s updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet introduces Computer Use, letting AI directly interact with desktop environments — a significant leap toward autonomous AI agents.OpenAI o1 — The Dawn of Reasoning Modelshttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240912-openai-o1-reasoning-models/Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240912-openai-o1-reasoning-models/OpenAI releases o1, a model that ’thinks before it answers’ — what chain-of-thought reasoning means for developers and the future of AI-assisted coding.Llama 3.1 405B — Meta Goes All-In on Open-Source AIhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240725-meta-llama-3-1-open-source/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240725-meta-llama-3-1-open-source/Meta releases Llama 3.1 with a 405 billion parameter model under a permissive license, making frontier-class AI genuinely open for the first time.Claude 3.5 Sonnet — Anthropic Raises the Bar for Coding AIhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240620-claude-35-sonnet-raises-the-bar/Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240620-claude-35-sonnet-raises-the-bar/Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which benchmarks above GPT-4o on coding tasks while running faster and cheaper — reshaping the competitive landscape for AI-assisted development.GPT-4o — OpenAI's Multimodal Leap and What It Means for Developershttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240509-openai-gpt4o-multimodal/Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240509-openai-gpt4o-multimodal/OpenAI’s Spring Update reveals GPT-4o, a natively multimodal model that processes text, audio, and vision in a single architecture. The developer implications are significant.Meta Releases Llama 3 — Open Source AI Just Got Serioushttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240418-meta-llama-3-release/Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240418-meta-llama-3-release/Meta’s Llama 3 arrives with 8B and 70B parameter models that rival closed-source competitors, reshaping the open-weight AI landscape.Claude 3 Arrives — Anthropic's New Family of Models Raises the Barhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240307-anthropic-claude-3-benchmarks/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240307-anthropic-claude-3-benchmarks/Anthropic launches Claude 3 in three tiers — Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus — with benchmark results that challenge GPT-4’s dominance.Gemini 1.5 Pro — A Million Tokens Changes the Gamehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240215-gemini-1-5-million-token-context/Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/240215-gemini-1-5-million-token-context/Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro launches with a 1 million token context window, fundamentally reshaping what’s possible with large language models.Google Gemini Arrives — Multimodal AI Gets Realhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/231207-google-gemini-multimodal-ai/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/231207-google-gemini-multimodal-ai/Google launches Gemini, its most capable AI model yet, bringing native multimodal reasoning to the forefront of the AI race.GPT-4 Lands — And It Raises the Bar Significantlyhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230316-gpt4-lands-and-raises-the-bar/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/230316-gpt4-lands-and-raises-the-bar/OpenAI releases GPT-4 with multimodal capabilities and dramatically improved reasoning — here’s what it means for developers.ChatGPT Just Changed Everything — Or Did It?https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221201-chatgpt-changed-everything/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/221201-chatgpt-changed-everything/OpenAI’s ChatGPT launches and immediately captivates the tech world with eerily capable conversational AI — but the real implications for developers run deeper than the hype.DALL-E 2 and the New Frontier of AI Image Generationhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220407-dall-e-2-ai-image-generation/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220407-dall-e-2-ai-image-generation/OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 produces photorealistic images from text descriptions with stunning accuracy, signaling a paradigm shift in how we think about creative AI.DeepMind's AlphaCode — When AI Enters the Coding Competitionhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220203-deepmind-alphacode-ai-programming/Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/220203-deepmind-alphacode-ai-programming/DeepMind’s AlphaCode system achieves competitive-level performance in programming contests, raising questions about what AI can and can’t do in software engineering.GPT-3 at Scale — What the Growing Developer Ecosystem Tells Us About AI's Next Chapterhttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201105-gpt3-developer-ecosystem/Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/201105-gpt3-developer-ecosystem/OpenAI’s GPT-3 API is spawning a wave of developer tools and startups. The implications for software development are becoming clearer — and more nuanced — than the initial hype suggested.GPT-3 — The API That Has Everyone Talkinghttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200730-gpt3-api-first-look/Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200730-gpt3-api-first-look/OpenAI’s GPT-3 API is generating jaw-dropping demos across the developer community. Here’s what it means for the rest of us.GPT-3 API Access — First Impressions from the Betahttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200723-gpt3-api-beta-first-impressions/Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200723-gpt3-api-beta-first-impressions/OpenAI is granting beta access to the GPT-3 API. After a week of experimentation, here’s what’s genuinely impressive and what’s overhyped.GPT-3 — OpenAI's 175 Billion Parameter Bet on Languagehttps://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200528-openai-gpt3-language-model/Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.osmondvanhemert.nl/posts/200528-openai-gpt3-language-model/OpenAI publishes the GPT-3 paper, a 175 billion parameter language model that demonstrates surprising few-shot learning capabilities across a range of NLP tasks.