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New Kid on the Block

Praex launched its own AI models, Velox II, Faber II and Lucia II, served on its own infrastructure rather than through a third-party API, with Velox II free to start and no sign-up required. Praex Pro costs $20 a month and adds Faber II, the larger model that wakes on demand, plus five times the daily allowance; Lucia II, described as the full-scale frontier model, is not yet open. The company said the models are tuned and served by Praex, and users can also bring their own keys or hardware.

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New Kid on the Block
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Live today. Free to start.

        Not another assistant behind someone else's API.
        **Our own models, served by us, no middleman.** One copartner in your
        terminal, on your phone, and on the web.

No sign-up to start. Press Enter and Velox II answers in the chat.

curl -fsSL https://praex.ai/install.sh | bash

~ praex

PRAEX · Velox II · manual mode

> take the failing deploy and fix it

  ⚒ read   cloudbuild.yaml
  ⚒ bash   npm test · 2 failing
  ⚒ edit   src/router.ts
  ⚒ bash   npm test · all passing
  Route order fixed. Tests pass.
✓ Done in 9s · Velox II

>

01 · Yours

The models you talk to are ours: tuned by us, served by us, answerable to no third party. Prefer your own keys or hardware? That works too. Your work is not a data funnel.

02 · Everywhere

Start a task in the terminal, steer it from your phone, review it on the web. Same agent, same memory, same session.

03 · Direct

Praex does the work and answers the question. No hand-wringing, no hedging, no refusing the reasonable. Private by design.

The models behind Praex: tuned by us, served from infrastructure we control, sized to the job. Or bring your own keys and run Praex on any model, free.

velox II

Free · everyday

Instant answers and quick edits. The one you talk to all day.

faber II

Pro · working

Serious coding and reasoning with room to think. Wakes on demand for Pro.

lucia II

Max · frontier

The full-scale mind for the problems that deserve it. Max opens soon.

Velox II is free every day, in the chat and in your terminal. Praex Pro is $20 a month: Faber II, our larger model, wakes on demand, and you get five times the daily allowance.

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