Vinci by SimpleDirect® · Open-weight models
Vinci MLE: AI for machine-learning engineering
Vinci MLE by SimpleDirect® is a family of open-weight models trained for machine-learning engineering: reading experiment evidence, diagnosing failures and preserving working configurations.
Compare Vinci MLE model releases
Help with the work of building AI
Vinci MLE is trained to read files and experiment results, suggest a limited fix when evidence supports it, preserve a working setup when it does not, and identify missing evidence instead of guessing.
ML engineers and AI researchers can evaluate it on experiment diagnosis, training recovery, memory and batch settings, scoring checks, model packaging and configuration consistency. These describe intended workflows and training coverage, not demonstrated performance on new tasks.
SimpleDirect® specializes existing IBM Granite and Mistral Devstral foundations through post-training. These releases are not foundation models pretrained from scratch in Canada.
Compare foundations, licences and downloads
8B has the smaller weight download; 30B has a larger footprint. 123B uses Devstral 2 and a different licence. Use each detail page for weight-file sizes and deployment notes. General coding results do not rank these models on ML-engineering tasks.
| Model | Foundation | Licence | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinci MLE 8B 1.0 | ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b | Apache-2.0 | Model card & weights (English) GGUF formats (English) |
| Vinci MLE 30B 1.0 | ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b | Apache-2.0 | Model card & weights (English) GGUF formats (English) |
| Vinci MLE 123B 1.0 | mistralai/Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512 | Mistral Modified MIT | Model card & weights (English) GGUF formats (English) |
Licences and available formats are artifact-specific. Follow each model card for the detailed licence, loading examples and file checks.
Separate training intent from evaluation evidence
Valid held-out ML-engineering and external MLE-bench evaluations were not completed for 1.0. General-capability comparisons with each model’s own parent document measured gains and tradeoffs, but do not establish performance on new ML-engineering tasks.
Use each artifact’s own evaluation record. Results for a parent model, sibling size or full-precision checkpoint do not establish the performance of a different release or quantized format.
Plan a self-hosted deployment
Start with a bounded experiment, a baseline and explicit acceptance criteria. Download full weights or a supported GGUF format from the model card, then evaluate suggestions against the original experiment evidence before permitting file edits or commands.
Allow memory beyond the weight files, choose a supported runtime, and record the exact revision and format. Tool use requires your own application, permissions and controlled workspace. Review and test suggested changes before applying them; these pages do not offer hosted inference.
Read the evidence and plan a trial
Use the technical model cards alongside these guides and research records to decide what to test in your own environment.