News

What we've said, and what we shipped.

Announcements, benchmark notes and positions from Peristyle. Posts are published on LinkedIn first; this is the standing record, kept on our own site so it doesn't scroll away.

Announcement 26 October 2026

Peristyle A.I Harness 0.1 — open source release

The harness that runs Peristyle is now public and MIT licensed, for organisations that want reliable, secure, in-house systems around persistent open-weight A.I.

  • Self repair and self management
  • Minimal RAM requirement
  • Infinite session lengths — your A.I will never stop
  • Integrated messaging app with admin controls
  • No third party integrations required
  • Suitable for self hosted, air-gapped, or managed sovereign cloud deployments
  • Direct to database memories — no clunky memory text files
  • Designed around the capabilities of the latest generation open weights models
Open Source AI Agentic AI Open Weights
Benchmark 21 October 2026

Minimax 3.1Flash released — enhanced problem solving and coding

Peristyle benchmarking confirms high initiative in solving problems, a step up in coding capability from M3, and reliable tool calling in certain harnesses.

  • High initiative in solving problems
  • A step up in coding capability from M3
  • Reliable tool calling and agentic performance in certain harnesses

Model weights have not been released yet — worth a look if you run A.I agents on tasks that don't require zero data retention.

Models Benchmarking
Position 2 October 2026

Simon Sinek's Why-How-What circle for Peristyle

The same three questions we ask of any business, applied to A.I.

  • Why: empower people with A.I, not exploit
  • How: data sovereignty in an open ecosystem
  • What: A.I team members and systems for them to operate
Position