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Qwen3.7-Plus Is Now Available on Qubrid AI
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MiniMax M3 Is Now Available on Qubrid AI
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Qubrid AI Accelerates Open-Source Model Inferencing with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and One Single API for Enterprise Agents
Qubrid AI, a leading Open, Inference-First Full-Stack AI Platform company, today at NVIDIA GTC 2026 announced the addition and acceleration of over forty open-source models powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Enterprise agent developers can simply integrate a single API provided by Qubrid and inference over forty models from within their agentic application, decide which model suits their requirements and then scale using NVIDIA GPU VMs or dedicated GPU servers all running on Qubrid's advanced AI platform.
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