Notes sur la création de Vinci.

Re-introducing SimpleDirect

If you knew SimpleDirect at the beginning of 2026, you knew a fintech company.  Today we're something different — and we want to tell you what changed, and why. SimpleDirect is now an AI lab.  We build open-weight language models you can download and run yourself, trained against a public Constitution, on Canadian infrastructure.  Our first model, Vinci Piccolo, launches June 30, 2026. That's a long way from where we started.  Here's the honest version of how we got here. Where we came f