Changelog

Thanks for your patience in-between release notes — the Venice team has been hard at work over the last month at our all-hands offsite preparing for Venice V2 and shipping our most requested feature to date, Venice Video.

Moving forward, release notes will move to a bi-weekly cadence.

Venice Video

Video generation is now live on Venice for all users.

You can create videos on Venice using both text-to-video and image-to-video generation. This release brings state-of-the-art video generation models to our platform including Sora 2 and Veo 3.1.

You can learn all about this offering here.

Venice Support Bot

• Launched AI-powered Venice Support Bot for instant, 24/7 assistance directly in the UI.

• Bot pulls real-time information from venice.ai/faqs to provide up-to-date answers to common questions.

• Users can escalate to create support tickets with context when additional help is needed beyond FAQ responses.

• Available in English, Spanish, and German.

• Accessible via bottom-right corner (desktop) or chat history drawer (mobile browser/PWA).

App

• Launched Image “Remix Mode” - This is like regenerate, but uses AI to modify the original prompt. This provides an avenue to explore image generation prompts in more depth.

• Added “Spotlight Search” to the UI. Press Command+K on a Mac or Control+K on Windows to open the conversation search.

• Add a toggle in the Preferences to control the behavior of the “Enter” key when editing a prompt.

Characters

• Venice has launched a “context summarizer” feature which should improve the LLMs understanding of important events and context in longer character conversations.

API

• Added 3 new models in “beta” for users to experiment with:

  • Hermes Llama 3.1 405b

  • Qwen 3 Next 80b

  • Qwen 3 Coder 480b

• Retired “Legacy Diem” (previously known as VCU). All inference through the API is now billed either through staked tokenized Diem or USD.

We hope you’ve been enjoying your Summer and have found an opportunity to adventure out and explore with family and friends.

Here’s the latest from the Venice team covering the last few weeks of our development. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a number of major new releases from our team.

Today’s cover art can be found on the Venice Social feed.

Models

• Upgraded Venice Large to Qwen 235B A22B 2507, the latest version of this premier model published by the team at Qwen. Venice now routes thinking and non thinking requests programmatically between the two optimized models. You can learn more about this update here.

• Increased context size on Venice Small (Qwen 3 4B) to 40k tokens to fully expose model’s available context.

App

• Launched “Auto Mode” as the default for new Venice users. Auto mode will route prompts to the best model to answer the user’s questions, removing the need for users to swap between image and text generation. You can learn more about this update here.

• Migrated model settings from the top right corner of the chat window into a drop down selector in the chat input. You can learn more about this update here.

• Added a new “Settings” menu to the left nav bar to unify all Venice settings into a single place.

• Added “thumbs up” / “thumbs down” rankings to results to allow Venice to better gauge model quality based on user feedback.

• Permit users to auto-generate tags when posting a new social feed image.

• Added a UI element to show when a user has custom system prompts enabled.

• Added support to lock image settings to a specific model.

• Improved Venice’s models knowledge of its own features and capabilities to permit the model to guide users on how to use Venice more effectively.

• Added the concept of current user time to the models to permit more relevant responses when dealing with time pertinent requests. 

• Combined the “Edit Image” and “Enhance Image” modals into a single user interface for simpler image edits.

• Added UI states to report when the local browser database is inaccessible due to resource constraints imposed by the user’s browser.

• Permit any image in the chat history to be regenerated — previously only the last image in the conversation list would permit regeneration.

• Updated the social feed notification drawer to mark all notifications as read when the drawer is viewed.

• Updated content violation interface on image generation to give more information on what happened and provide a mechanism to regenerate certain prompts on our default model.

• Improved bulk chat deletion UX to avoid accidental clicks during flow.

• Permit the deletion of image variants when generating more than 1 image at a time.

• Show an improved error message when users are trying to save a social feed username that’s already in use.

• Fixed a bug where users were unable to preview the original source image when image mode was enabled.

• Fixed a bug that was stripping EXIF data from WebP images when they were downloaded.

• Fixed a bug where when users created a new conversation, the type would be reset back to text. Instead we now carry over whatever the last conversation type they were previously using, or if in auto mode, that is selected.

Characters

• Updated the default character sorting order to require reviews on the latest characters displayed in the list.

• Added the ability for Character chats to support file uploads.

• Fixed a layering issue in the Character modal where the footer could overlap content or interactive elements. The stacking order has been adjusted so the footer no longer obscures underlying UI, improving visibility and clickability.

API

• Added an API Key Info route to return information about a specific API key. API docs have been updated.

• Added an API Docs page describing the Venice model suite.

• Create custom validations for API models to avoid infinite repetition from certain settings on certain models.

• Retired the Fluently image model from the API based on usage patterns.

• Fix API bug that was artificially limiting the max payload size of requests, preventing the full context from being utilized.

Image Editing (Inpainting) is Back!

We’ve brought image editing (inpainting) back to Venice for Pro users, now powered by Flux Kontext DEV.

How Image Editing it works
We’re running Flux Kontext DEV with a custom implementation that understands natural language editing commands. Here’s how it works:

1. Upload an image using the paperclip button and select “Edit Image”

2. Or generate an image first, then click the paint roller icon in the action menu

3. Describe your edit in plain language,

Capabilities of the new Image Editing

• Inpainting: Remove or replace objects (“remove the vase on the table”)

• Style changes: Transform artistic styles (“change this to Ghibli style”, “make it monochrome”)

• Compositional editing: Modify poses, angles, compositions (“create a variation of this image”, “rotate the person by 80°“)

• Color/tone adjustments: Change lighting, colors, moods (“colorize this black and white photo”, “add dramatic shadows”)

We need your help testing the new Image Editing
Please try the feature and send any feedback, bugs, or unexpected behavior to [email protected].

A wider release along with API support is planned once we’ve addressed community feedback.

App Updates

• Improved reliability of the simple mode feature in chat by ensuring the latest selected setting is always used, preventing issues caused by outdated values during asynchronous operations.

• Improved performance of the Venice “Loading” keys.

Model Updates

• Updated Venice Uncensored to an improved 1.1 version with some key improvements and bug fixes:

  • Better tone control: The model is now more neutral and polite by default, but still capable of being rude or explicit when prompted.

  • Improved ethical reasoning The model now handles ethical dilemmas better, prioritizing consequentialist reasoning to reduce bias and inconsistency.

  • Bug fixes: Issues like the model responding inappropriately to minimal inputs (e.g., single letters) have been addressed.

• Removed Qwen Coder and DeepSeek Coder after deprecation period.

Token Updates

• Updated all references from Venice Compute Units (VCU) to Diem - See this blog for more details.

• Fixed duplicate toasts being displayed when a transaction fails.