Jan v1 is now more reliable when handling searches.
It's an open-source alternative to Perplexity Pro, and it now avoids infinite loops with Jan v1 2509.
Performance updates:
- Gains on reasoning & creativity benchmarks
- Small drop on SimpleQA (91.1 -> 90.7), still competitive…
Meet Jan-v1-edge: an experimental 1.7B distilled model for Perplexity-style search.
Jan-v1-edge is our lightweight distillation experiment, derived from Jan v1. We're testing how well web search and reasoning can transfer into a smaller 1.7B parameter model that runs on edge…
AI is one of the greatest sources of leverage humanity has ever had.
It must stay open and in people's hands, never locked up by a few tech giants. @TheRegister just ran a thoughtful column on running AI locally.
theregister.com/2025/08/31/loc…
Jan v0.6.9 is here: Chat with images now.
Highlights:
- Multimodal models can see images
- MCP Server is now stable feature
- Tool calling for gpt-oss (upstream llama.cpp upgrade)
- Auto-detect tools & vision - no more manual setup
Update your Jan or download the latest.
Jan v0.6.8 is out: Jan is more stable now!
- Stability fixes for model loading
- Better llama.cpp: clearer errors & backend suggestions
- Faster MoE models with CPU offload
- Search private @huggingface models
- Custom Jinja templates
Update your Jan or download the latest.
Introducing Jan-v1: 4B model for web search, an open-source alternative to Perplexity Pro.
In our evals, Jan v1 delivers 91% SimpleQA accuracy, slightly outperforming Perplexity Pro while running fully locally.
Use cases:
- Web search
- Deep Research
Built on the new version…
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