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TaglineRun any open-source AI model with an API call.Qwen's open-source GPU kernel library that squeezes 2–3× more speed out of linear attention on NVIDIA Hopper hardware — if you're lucky enough to own one.Edit video + podcasts by editing the transcript.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.
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PricingPay per second of computeFree (MIT License, open-source)Free + $16-$50/moFree + $20/mo Pro
Best forDevelopers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).ML engineers and researchers running Qwen3.x linear-attention models on H100/H200 clusters who need to close the gap between theoretical GDN efficiency and actual hardware throughput.Podcasters, course creators, anyone editing talking-head content.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.
Strengths
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
  • 2–3× forward-pass and ~2× backward-pass speedup over FLA Triton kernels on Hopper GPUs
  • Gate-driven automatic intra-card context parallelism boosts SM utilization in long-sequence, small-head-count regimes without manual config
  • Hardware-friendly algebraic reformulation reduces Tensor Core, CUDA Core, and SFU overhead with no numerical precision loss
  • MIT licensed and fully open-source — drop it straight into Qwen3.x training and inference pipelines
  • Edit audio/video by deleting text
  • Overdub (voice clone) for fixes
  • Strong collaboration + remote recording
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
Weaknesses
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
  • Extremely narrow hardware requirement: SM90+ only (H100/H200, DGX Spark) with CUDA 12.8+ and PyTorch 2.8+ — useless outside Hopper-class clusters
  • GDN/Qwen-specific: not a drop-in replacement for FlashAttention-style softmax kernels, and won't help you if you're not running linear-attention Qwen models
  • Very new, minimal community adoption or third-party validation yet
  • Not a traditional NLE — some workflows awkward
  • Overdub ethics require care
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
Kai's verdictS-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.A genuinely impressive, laser-focused kernel optimization from the Qwen team — real speedups on real hardware — but its utility is gated behind Hopper GPUs and Qwen's GDN architecture, making it a niche power tool rather than a broadly useful library. (Verdict pending Phi's full review.)S-tier for content creators. Cuts editing time in half. Non-obvious but life-changing.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.
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