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  1. UpupaBit is now BytePenny

    Same team, same open-source Matricxon and pAIring, a new name and address: bytepenny.com. Old upupabit.ai links keep working and lead here.

  2. NVIDIA NIM, Cohere and RunPod connectors

    Three more cloud connectors: 100+ models from NVIDIA with free developer credits, Cohere with a free trial key and embeddings, and your own RunPod endpoint. The connectors page now compares all eight.

  3. OpenRouter, Gemini and Groq connectors

    Three more cloud connectors, all free to try: hundreds of models through OpenRouter, Google Gemini with embeddings for the knowledge base, and fast open models on Groq.

  4. DigitalOcean connector

    A second cloud connector: dozens of open and commercial models, plus embeddings for the knowledge base, with one access key.

  5. Cloudflare Workers AI connector

    Run chats on dozens of cloud models, from Gemma 4 to GPT-OSS, plus embeddings for the knowledge base. Nothing to deploy.

  6. The UpupaBit website is live

    A new home for Matricxon and pAIring, with full documentation for both.

  7. Cluster mode (BETA)

    Several Matricxon nodes can now share models and chat caches, managed from a live node map in pAIring.

  8. Tools through MCP

    Connect MCP tool servers and let models look things up or take actions in chat.

  9. Encrypted saved chat caches

    Matricxon keeps long chats ready on disk with AES-256-GCM, so returning to them is fast.

  10. GPU mode (experimental)

    Matricxon can run on an NVIDIA GPU, with packed or unpacked weights.

  11. Qwen 3.5 support

    Matricxon runs Qwen 3.5, including its hybrid layers and vision.

  12. Gemma 4 and faster MoE

    Matricxon runs Gemma 4, and mixture-of-experts models share one faster expert layer.

  13. Falcon, StarCoder 2 and Mixtral

    Three more model families join Matricxon, including its first mixture-of-experts model.

  14. The full I-quant family

    Matricxon reads 25 quantization types, now including the IQ1 to IQ4 types for very small models.

  15. Math in chat

    pAIring shows math formulas in replies as clean, readable equations.

  16. Connectors for cloud GPUs

    pAIring can send chats to engines on cloud GPU services when you need a bigger model.

  17. Native C kernels

    Matricxon moved all dequantization to native C kernels, many times faster than before, with macOS support the same day.

  18. Matricxon is open source

    The first public release of Matricxon, a readable GGUF runtime with Qwen 2 and Qwen 3 support.

  19. pAIring is open source

    pAIring 1.0, a private AI chat workspace for teams, is released under AGPL-3.0.