GAIA

AMD releases GAIA 0.25, its local AI agent app for Ryzen AI PCs, with a larger default model and a much smaller install

GitHub (amd/gaia) published this on Oct 18, 2026 (source: github.com).

AMD's GAIA 0.25 makes gaia chat run the flagship GAIA agent and opens the Agent UI straight to a chat that sets itself up on a fresh install. gaia init now picks Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a 64 GB or larger Strix Halo or a 32 GB GPU and keeps Gemma-4-E4B elsewhere, with Qwen3.8 Flash Next opt-in on 128 GB Strix Halo. Dropping PyTorch, transformers and accelerate shrinks the desktop app's Python environment on Windows from about 0.9 GB to 0.1 GB, and setup now works behind TLS-inspecting corporate proxies. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the default cloud model on the AMD LLM Gateway and Fireworks.