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Testing a 4B AI model with Conestoga College

We’re working with Conestoga researchers to test a small AI model on laptops, compact computers and a phone. These are the first findings, with more work ahead.

George PuOct 5, 20264 min read

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Sep 28, 20261 min read

Introducing Vinci MLE 1.0: open-weight models for ML engineering

Vinci MLE 1.0 introduces 8B and 30B open-weight research models developed by SimpleDirect® in Canada.

Sep 28, 20261 min read

Meet Vero: the character layer of Vinci

As Vinci grows across models, tools, workflows and research, we want the experience to feel more human while keeping the work precise. That is what Vero is for.

Sep 22, 20267 min read

Introducing Vinci Cyber: Open-Weight Models for Defensive Cybersecurity

Vinci released Vinci Cyber, a family of three open-weight models built for defensive cybersecurity: 8B, 30B, and 123B parameters.

Aug 25, 20265 min read

Vinci Code is now open source

We are releasing Vinci Code under the MIT License: a Pi-based terminal coding agent you can run with your own provider key, with local guards, checkpoints, and explicit completion states.

Aug 12, 20263 min read

Vinci is focusing on models and verification

What we learned from our first six weeks, and what we are building next.

Jul 9, 20266 min read

Introducing Vinci Bozza

Today we're releasing Vinci Bozza, the second model in the Vinci family. It's a 9-billion-parameter open-weight model. It's free to use. And you can run it yourself. On June 29th, we shipped Piccolo, a 4B model that's small and fast. We wanted to test one claim: that character — honesty, restraint, knowing the edges of what you know — can be consistent across different model classes. It did. Bozza asks the harder question. Not does character survive, but what does character cost. When th

Jun 29, 20263 min read

Introducing Vinci Piccolo

Today we're releasing Vinci Piccolo, the first model in the Vinci family.

Jun 29, 20264 min read

Introducing Vinci

Today we're introducing Vinci — and releasing its first model.

Jun 26, 20263 min read

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

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