{"slug": "new-kid-on-the-block", "title": "New Kid on the Block", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Live today. Free to start.\n\n            Not another assistant behind someone else's API.\n            **Our own models, served by us, no middleman.** One copartner in your\n            terminal, on your phone, and on the web.\n          \n\nNo sign-up to start. Press Enter and Velox II answers in the chat.\n\n`curl -fsSL https://praex.ai/install.sh | bash`\n\n```\n~ praex\n\nPRAEX · Velox II · manual mode\n\n> take the failing deploy and fix it\n\n  ⚒ read   cloudbuild.yaml\n  ⚒ bash   npm test · 2 failing\n  ⚒ edit   src/router.ts\n  ⚒ bash   npm test · all passing\n  Route order fixed. Tests pass.\n✓ Done in 9s · Velox II\n\n>\n```\n\n01 · Yours\n\nThe 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.\n\n02 · Everywhere\n\nStart a task in the terminal, steer it from your phone, review it on the web. Same agent, same memory, same session.\n\n03 · Direct\n\nPraex does the work and answers the question. No hand-wringing, no hedging, no refusing the reasonable. Private by design.\n\nThe 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.\n\nvelox *II*\n\nFree · everyday\n\nInstant answers and quick edits. The one you talk to all day.\n\nfaber *II*\n\nPro · working\n\nSerious coding and reasoning with room to think. Wakes on demand for Pro.\n\nlucia *II*\n\nMax · frontier\n\nThe full-scale mind for the problems that deserve it. Max opens soon.\n\nVelox 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-kid-on-the-block", "canonical_source": "https://praex.ai/", "published_at": "2026-10-21 21:28:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-21 21:42:22.971972+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Praex", "Velox II", "Faber II", "Lucia II"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-kid-on-the-block", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-kid-on-the-block.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-kid-on-the-block.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-kid-on-the-block.jsonld"}}