https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news Announcements from SimpleDirect. flash-1-mini, the bilingual Canadian legal AI, is now available under Apache 2.0. en-CA https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/17/constitutional-fine-tuning https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/17/constitutional-fine-tuning Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Methodology How we take a strong open model and train it to live by a written set of rules you can read — the three techniques, what we borrowed and from whom, and where it falls short. The full paper with code ships August 8. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/16/meet-vinci https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/16/meet-vinci Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model vinci-studio ships August 8 — a capable, open model you don't have to take on faith. Here's what defines it, where the name comes from, and how to check that it does what we say. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/15/from-flash-to-vinci https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/15/from-flash-to-vinci Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Company We're pulling our model work together under one name — Vinci — and vinci-studio ships August 8. An honest update on why we moved on from building Canadian models from scratch. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/canadian-ai-evaluation-methodology https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/canadian-ai-evaluation-methodology Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Methodology A vendor-neutral protocol for measuring how AI models perform on Canadian legal, privacy, and constitutional reasoning — bilingual, reproducible, and citable in procurement. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/cblre-evaluation-suite https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/cblre-evaluation-suite Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Methodology The Canadian Bilingual Legal & Regulatory Evaluation is open — six tracks, bilingual ground truth, reproducible scoring. No model scores in the dataset card; those come separately, after expert validation. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/model-benchmarking-methodology https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/08/model-benchmarking-methodology Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Methodology The full evaluation suite, serving configuration, scoring rules, and reporting standards we apply to every SimpleDirect model — built for one thing: every number we publish must be reproducible. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/07/all-models-free-forever https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/07/all-models-free-forever Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Company We'd planned to charge for our larger models. We changed our mind. From today, every SimpleDirect model is free to download and own — forever, with no paywall. https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/01/flash-1-mini-shipped https://www.getsimpledirect.com/en/news/2026/06/01/flash-1-mini-shipped Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Launch SimpleDirect's first model — a 4B, bilingual, vision-capable Canadian legal AI — is now available under the Apache 2.0 license, free to download and run on a laptop.