AI Pals Engine allows you to hook in any model through a custom endpoint, but for convenience, it aims to support as many local models as possible natively. If you notice a model isn’t working smoothly or a new model release isn’t getting the spotlight it deserves, head over to the Community Hub to let us know. Please also let me know if you would like to receive more information about model releases via news section or in-app notification.
The Qwen Team has dropped some exciting new models:
Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Yes, MoEs aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been using the predecessor heavily for my tasks. It’s fast, efficient and plays well with systems packed with RAM)
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Smaller variants are coming soon too.
These models are built on a new architecture featuring:
Improved long-context handling and more efficient attention mechanisms (=improvements/faster for lots of text)
Native multimodal support (text + vision)
Expanded language coverage: 201 languages and dialects
Due to the newer architecture, these models still require some runtime improvements. If you'd like to test them early (this also applies to other Mamba/Hybrid models), please switch to the publictest branch (Properties -> Game Versions & Betas) in the Steam menu (V0.8.14.0). Several runtime updates will be made to this branch (in addition to other improvements) before it is stable enough to be included in the normal release.🛠️
📝 Changelog V0.8.13.2
Summarized from smaller updates deployed since the last Devlog:
General: Added --nosteam argument to the executable
TTS: Added adjustable Speed/Rate settings
TTS: Updated the chatterbox project to support the multilingual model
New Tool: screenshot_dx11 (note: the previous screenshot tool may fail in certain edge cases)
Widgets: Improved Markdown rendering during streaming (fewer artifacts)
History: Optimized loading for faster performance
Add Text Model Endpoint/Server: Added test button for easier debugging
Globalization: Added language switching functionality and selector test
Improvement: Chatview now uses always up to date textmodel info without reselection
Fix: "Continue Chat" now works reliably on the first try
Fix: Default TTS model no longer loads unnecessarily when TTS is enabled
Fix: Retrieve Text Model List Button (and TTS) only using the "dummy" key
Fix: Multilingual TTS Text Encoding Bug
Fix: Broken Add Text Model Save Button
🌅 Here are some points for the next updates:
Basic Multi-Gpu config
Better Memory+Dynamic Tokens integrations
STT Wake Word
Better Audio integrations
More of the following: Help pages, Internationalization, Fixes, QoL Improvements