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RSSMeet Vinci — and don't take our word for it
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.
From the flash series to Vinci: what changed
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.
Evaluating AI for Canadian regulated work: a methodology
A vendor-neutral protocol for measuring how AI models perform on Canadian legal, privacy, and constitutional reasoning — bilingual, reproducible, and citable in procurement.
Introducing CBLRE: a public benchmark for Canadian bilingual legal AI
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.
How we measure our models: the benchmarking protocol
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.
Every model, free forever
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.
flash-1-mini is here
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.
Launching August 8, 2026
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