Tether's AI research division QVAC released Genesis III, a synthetic STEM dataset of 191.43 billion tokens, on September 23, 2026, and reported that a 1.7 billion-parameter model trained on part of th…
Tether's AI research arm QVAC released Genesis III, a 191.43 billion-token STEM training dataset spanning 19 domains, freely available on Hugging Face under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. Models trained excl…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, in an interview on Eye on AI, criticized Silicon Valley's gigawatt data center approach to AI and unveiled Tether's QVAC, a 4-billion-parameter edge model that he claims outp…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced plans to launch Tether AI applications targeting developing markets, covering health, finance, and sports, with tools running on smartphones via lightweight models. …
Tether International's first full independent audit by KPMG US confirmed a $6.814 billion reserve surplus as of December 31, 2025, backing its $183 billion USDT supply, and CEO Paolo Ardoino is now ou…
Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin, reported a $1.5 billion net operating profit for Q2 2026 and announced its user base has surpassed 650 million wallets, while unveiling plans to build A…
Tether added nearly 80 new lessons to Tether Academy, all built around its QVAC open-source AI framework and compatible with SDK version 0.17, announced by developer @thisonedevv on August 13. The upd…
Tether Data's QVAC research group released two 460M-parameter vision-language models, VisionPsy-Nano-460M and VisionPsy-Nano-460M-Flash, on July 29th, providing open weights and mobile inference code …
Tether AI has introduced a new vision model for edge devices through its QVAC platform, with benchmarks showing its MedPsy 1.7B parameter model scoring 62.62 across multiple medical benchmarks, outper…
Tether Data, the technology arm of stablecoin issuer Tether, open-sourced VisionPsy-Nano, a vision-language model with 460 million parameters, on July 29 as part of its QVAC AI research initiative. Th…
OpenCode, an open-source coding agent, can now run entirely locally using QVAC, an SDK and CLI from Tether that serves models on-device across GPU backends. The setup eliminates cloud dependencies, gi…
OpenClaw, the most widely used agent harness, can now be paired with QVAC, an open-source SDK from Tether, to run a fully local, private AI assistant. The setup uses QVAC's OpenAI-compatible server to…
A developer guide explains how to run the Hermes agent fully locally using QVAC, an OpenAI-compatible server, enabling offline inference, persistent memory, and tool execution without cloud dependenci…
Tether's AI division, Tether EVO, has open-sourced BrainWhisperer, a brain-to-text engine that decodes neural signals into text entirely on-device through the QVAC framework, prioritizing user privacy…
QVAC, an open-source ecosystem for building local-first, peer-to-peer AI applications, has been released. It enables running AI tasks like LLMs, speech, and RAG locally across platforms or via P2P inf…