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GlirOS 0.1.81

Remove background on one file, and a first choice for how

Desktop app

  • Remove background in Media Studio's One file: add it to a picture or a clip. A green or blue screen gets the colour key, anything else AI (Fast, for people, comes with GlirOS). Make it saves a see-through PNG for a picture, a see-through WebM for a clip (its sound kept), or an MP4 on a colour or a blurred background.
  • Settings > Tools > Media Studio > "Remove background: try first": Automatic, the colour key, AI or Corridor Key. The chat and One file use it when you just say "remove the background". A picture in the chat with no green screen is now cut out with AI right there.
  • Corridor Key works alongside: in Remove background, Export for Corridor Key saves the clip's frames and GlirOS's hint in your Videos folder; run Corridor Key on them yourself, then Import its matte. Corridor Key is a separate tool by Corridor Digital, under its own licence. GlirOS doesn't include or run it.
  • Easier with the keyboard and a screen reader: a "Skip to the message box" link first, Tab stays inside Settings and dialogs (Escape closes them and goes back), the model menu moves with the arrow keys, and a screen reader reads an answer once it is written, not word by word. Uninstall in Windows' Settings > Apps opens GlirOS's dialog in front; a dialog asked for twice shows once, and the media tools' download shows one progress note.
  • More by keyboard: on Media Studio's timeline a clip moves earlier or later with Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ (or Earlier and Later in its part), and a screen reader hears its place. The welcome says each step to a screen reader, and its language choice works with the arrow keys. Choices in Settings that look like a row of buttons are one Tab stop and change with the arrow keys too.
  • Media gallery: mark a part of a video (From/To under the preview) and export just that part into the chat, Exact to the frame or Quick; save a copy into a folder you pick; select several files and send them to Media Studio's timeline in order, each trimmed to its part; and gather pictures and videos from any of your folders into groups, with sub-folders shown as a tree. Your original files are never changed. On the phone, Download says the size first and packs several files into one zip.
  • Tasks: "Due soon" at the top of the Tasks view lists what is overdue or due within a week, soonest first, from this chat and, under its own heading, from your other chats (a click on a chat's name opens it). Tick them right there; each stays in its own list.
  • Settings > Remote access shows how quick the connection to your phone or browser is while it is open (the round trip through the relay), with Measure now.
  • Fixed: sending a part from the media gallery's full-screen viewer to Media Studio left GlirOS not answering clicks. The full screen now closes when the gallery steps aside.
  • Remote access: the chat list on the PC and on your phone follows what you do on the other within a few seconds: a new chat shows up, a deleted one goes, and an open chat shows the other device's messages as they come. No restart needed.
  • Media Studio: Record a clip, next to Take a photo, records a short video from your camera (at most a minute, with sound if you like) for One file or the timeline. It stays on this PC, and the camera is off again as soon as you're done.
  • Media Studio, from your tests: Record a clip no longer plays the microphone while you set up (a level meter shows it instead, so nothing can howl); Ctrl+V with a file open now puts the pasted picture in its place, and says so when there's only text; the Timeline tab can leave the file in One file; a JPG is called JPEG.
  • Slideshows: add pictures and clips to a chat (or send a group from the Media gallery) and ask "make a slideshow of these". One card lets you choose the pace, your own music file (or Fit to the music), a title, the shape and a slow zoom; Make it puts the MP4 in the chat, and Open on the timeline lets you change anything. Media Studio's timeline also has Slow zoom (In or Out) on any picture.
  • Media Studio's Looks: the Looks menu in Adjust (One file and a clip on the timeline) has 26 looks with a small preview of each: the ten colour looks, Film (Old film, Cinematic, Dreamy, Grain…), Print & art (Newspaper, Sketch, Pixel art…) and Fun (Heatwave, Thermal, Negative, Mirror, VHS). A look sets the colour and opens the effects it uses as their own panels under Adjust, so you can change any of it; Reset puts the look back, and Save as mine keeps your own. Or say it in the chat: "make it look like an old film".
  • Web search can use your own SearXNG server (a free search engine you run yourself, on a home server, a NAS or a VPS): Settings > Web search > SearXNG, put in its address and press Test and save. Searches go straight from your PC to your server; GlirOS doesn't run or provide one. A server behind a password: open "This server asks for a name and password" under the address; they are kept in GlirOS's key store, never in the settings file.
  • A research report's Save as PDF now saves the PDF straight away: pick where in Windows' Save dialog, no print dialog. The PDF has bookmarks for its sections and is tagged for screen readers; Open on the notice that follows opens it. Uninstall started from Windows' Settings > Apps on a first start shows the uninstall dialog, not the welcome; a GlirOS of another Windows account says so.
  • Replace text in a video now follows a text that moves with the camera or the sign; a cut, something passing in front, a zoom or changing light is said in words, and nothing is made. With a clip open in Media Studio, the chat does it too (replace "SALE" with "SALG"), and pictures and clips on the timeline have Replace text under Add a part, the result going in their place.
  • Face swap has two new choices in its AI steps: Stronger likeness on Swap (the swap runs twice: a little more like the person and less of the face it replaces) and Detail under Restore (the swap made at up to four times the size, so a big face comes out sharp while keeping the most likeness; a small face stays as before). Both take longer. Opened again, a chat keeps the face to put in with its picture and name, also after a New chat. Its faces are found again too.
  • Import chats from Claude and Gemini too: Settings > Chat history > Import chats takes Claude's export (Settings > Privacy > Export data) and Gemini's Google Takeout (My Activity, Gemini Apps, as JSON) beside ChatGPT's. The file is read on your device only; importing it again adds nothing.
  • Workspaces in Media Studio's timeline: the Workspace menu (top right) has Edit, Colour, Key, Sound, Text and Export (keys 1–6) and your own (Save, Update, Manage). A workspace keeps which panels stay in view, never a clip's values: in Colour, Colour and Looks stay for every clip you choose, quiet with "+ Apply to this clip" where they aren't on it yet. Each chat remembers its workspace.
  • Media Studio's timeline: a chosen clip or layer shows its name once with what is on it ("On this clip: Colour · Looks", each with × to take it off), its settings, and each part as a panel you can fold, reset to neutral, remove or hide. Hiding a panel never takes the part off. A rail of parts on the side (Colour, Looks, Crop, Key) adds a part with one tap, shows a dot when it is on the clip, and brings a hidden panel back.
  • On the timeline, Ctrl+click (or Shift+click) more clips to change them together: a slider, Remove or a look goes to all of them. Copy parts / Paste parts (top of the side) put one clip's Colour, Looks, Crop and Key on others. Drag a panel's header (or Alt+↑/↓) to reorder, and P pins.
  • Looks on the timeline's layers too (a logo or a picture-in-picture: its own colour and look, its see-through parts kept), and a look asked for in the chat ("make it look like an old film") goes on the timeline's chosen clip or layer when the timeline is open.
  • The welcome screen's suggestions fit the model you use: short, clear asks for a small model (five tips for better sleep, an explanation in three sentences, a short email), what to see on a day trip to Lillehammer for a middle-sized one, and the full Lofoten trip plan only for a big model or a cloud model.
  • Your own SearXNG server behind a name and password: when its address is plain http and not this PC or your home network, Settings > Web search says the name and password are sent unencrypted. If the server sends the search on to another address, GlirOS no longer sends the name and password there; it tells you to set the address the search ends up at.
  • Media Studio's panels: the eye now only ever means "seen in the preview". On the timeline a panel is hidden with a tap on its lit part in the rail (or P), in Edit too, and the part stays. One file's parts are panels like the timeline's: fold, the name with its preview eye, and the bin to remove. Sliders keep their value on the same line, Colour starts with the Clip panel folded, and the top button says Remove clip or Remove layer.
  • Media Studio: One file's colour part is now called Colour, the same word as on the timeline. The chosen clip's name keeps its room beside Remove clip, and One file's buttons at the bottom no longer squeeze their words onto two lines.
  • Tools you set up and run yourself are marked Advanced and no longer stand beside the built-in choices. Settings > Web search has four choices, and your own SearXNG server sits in a fold under them, "Your own search server". Remove background shows Corridor Key only when it is found on this PC or chosen in Settings. GlirOS works fully without either.
  • Media Studio's One file now has the timeline's side: "On this file" with a chip per part, the parts as panels, and the rail on the outer edge (Look · Shape and time · AI · Out; a part this file can't take is greyed and says why). The Workspace menu is on One file's bar too, with the same six workspaces, keys 1–6 and your own, shared with the timeline: Colour pins Colour and Looks, with "+ Add to this file".
  • Research reports: a long section folds after its first paragraph (printing opens it), a citation shows its source on hover, focus or a tap, and a Figures tab in the appendix lists every chart, map and set of steps. Export now puts the report's PDF first in its zip, beside the page, the text and the pictures. The plan has a question for each part of what you asked (Covers: shows which), adds no year you didn't give, and the Summary says what was partly found.
  • Replace text in a video now follows a sign that comes closer or turns a little (up to 1.25 times its size and 12 degrees): the new words grow and turn with it. One that turns or zooms further is refused with that reason, and nothing is made.
  • Replace text has Translate beside the new words: it fills them with the found text in this app's language, translated by the chat's model (a cloud model asks first; only the text is sent, not the picture). You can change it before you replace.
  • Settings > About: when the update check can't finish, it now says why in your language (the update file isn't on GlirOS's website yet, the website couldn't be reached, or Block all network traffic is on).
  • Connectors work with servers on MCP's newest version (July 2026) as well as the older ones: GlirOS asks a server which version it speaks first, then talks to it that way. A server that speaks only a later version says so in Settings > Connectors.
  • Research reports can show a picture from a source: only when the source's own page shows a free licence for it (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA), with its full credit, and saved with the report, so opening it later loads nothing from the site. Any other source picture is shown as a card that links to the page, with no picture.
  • Connectors can sign in to services: when a service needs it, its card in Settings > Connectors says so, and Sign in opens the service's own page in your browser. GlirOS never sees your password; the access it gives is kept in Windows' key store, renewed by itself, and Sign out (or removing the connector) gives it back.
  • Research can add a few pictures made by AI: choose A few (up to 3) in the brief. They come from your picture model, only for sections about something that can be seen, and each says "Made by AI" with the model's name. Off unless you choose it.
  • Small models on your device get a lighter prompt: the tools are named, and only the calls of the tools a message is about go with it (at most 3 for a small model), so the right tool comes first far more often. Gemma 4 E2B now counts as the 2B model it runs as, and GlirOS leads it through big jobs step by step. Under each answer, How this answer was made shows what the model read, part by part.
  • Fixed: the globe (web search) pressed in a new chat before its first message was lost; that message now searches the web, and the globe stays on for the chat.
  • Skills: small functions the chat fetches the first time a question needs one, for exact answers a model gets wrong. The first: Exact maths, Calendar maths (working days, holidays, sun and moon), the Cube solver, Text and lines (counts, sorting, compare) and Everyday calculators (loans, savings, BMI; not advice). The chat asks first: "Fetch the Exact maths skill from tools.gliros.com? Nothing about your question is sent." The answer shows "Worked out by the … skill". Settings > Tools lists the skills fetched, with Remove.
  • One file: Looks has a panel of its own beside Colour (as on the timeline), a greyed part says why ("A picture has no sound."), the side scrolls on its own in full screen, and the preview's background is no longer black.
  • Settings > Pictures > Advanced: Ask before sending now says which companies you have said yes to (Ask again is greyed when there are none), and refreshing the picture model list has its own row that says what it does.
  • Cloud models: Claude now reuses the unchanged start of each request from Anthropic's cache (much cheaper on long chats); a message a switched-on tool answers ("convert 5 miles to km", "how many days to Christmas Eve") is no longer also searched on the web; and "17.5 % of 2 348.60" is read with its space between thousands.
  • When a switched-on tool should answer but doesn't (the model doesn't call it, the call fails or finds nothing), GlirOS searches the web after all and the model answers again from the results, with the sources under it. A small model's answer that says it's only a simplified version gets a bigger model offered under it.
  • Code: a long code block has its buttons (preview, side panel, copy) at its end too, and in the side panel's list of files one click on a file opens it and shows its versions.
  • Research: when pictures made by AI were chosen and none was made, the report and the research card say why (for example, no section is about something that can be seen), and the pictures no longer get made-up writing in them. A page that never names the subject is left out; Links lists every page read and why. Export as zip asks where to save it. A page too long for the model is read again with less of it, and a second report of the same day and title gets its own folder. A chart of years is left out.
  • Connectors with a cloud model: each call now goes with the service's own description of its fields (which are optional, which take a list), so a service like Notion accepts it, and an empty optional field is left out before it is sent. A call the model gets wrong is answered with the service's calls, so the model tries again instead of ending with an empty answer. The tools stay the same through the whole answer, so Claude can reuse its cache.
  • A cloud model can now take up to 8 tool steps in one answer (a model on this device still 3). When the limit stops a call, a line under the answer says so: say "go on" to let it continue.
  • How this answer was made > What the model read: the tools a cloud model can call (sent as functions) have a line of their own, so the other lines show their real size.
  • Fixed: in the side panel, One file's View menu opened off the screen; it now opens just under the View button.
  • Media gallery: Make a slideshow on a group's header or the Select bar puts its pictures and clips in the chat with the slideshow card (pace, your music, the title from the group's name, the shape), then Make it.
  • Skills: Everyday calculators work out a pregnancy's due date, its weeks and trimester; general information, not medical advice, and its calls aren't written to the chat log.
  • Connectors with a cloud model: fewer, smaller tool descriptions go with each request (well under half of before for a big service like Notion), fields with free names (a Notion page's title) are described as such, and "go on" keeps the calls the job needs.
  • The cloud token limit for one answer counts tokens the company reads from its cache at a tenth, as they cost.
  • Connectors: services that describe their fields with references, choices of shapes or merged parts (common in servers written with Pydantic or Zod) are now passed to a cloud model in a form every company takes, with the choices said in words; a number or list the model writes as text is fitted before it is sent.
  • Media gallery: Send to > The chat puts a picture or clip into the message you are writing, so the model can look at it, and from there One file can pick it.
  • Media gallery: Send to Media Studio with one file opens it in One file — a picture stays a picture — while several files or a part go to the timeline as before.
  • Asking about the picture in the side panel ("can you see the picture in the side panel?") gives the model what the open Media gallery shows, the file open in it included.
  • The calendar answers "is it Halloween today?" and a short follow-up like "is it today?" after "when is Halloween?", and gives its answer to the model as the one to use.
  • With the Calendar & seasons tool switched on, a question about a day ("when is Easter?", "is it Halloween today?") now gets the calendar's answer from the same rules too, instead of waiting for the model to call the tool.
  • Special days: the chat knows every day of the calendar's rules that falls today, the world's too (Women's Day, St Patrick's Day, Halloween…), and mentions it once with a short greeting where it fits.
  • The calculator no longer works out a range, a score or a fraction in an ordinary request ("plan a 3-4 day trip", "the meeting is 2-3pm", "1/2 cup sugar"). It runs by itself when you ask for a sum ("what is…", "regn ut…") or the message is mostly the sum, and "1500 kr pluss 25 % mva" is worked out.
  • Everyday requests run by GlirOS itself, even with a small model: "remember to bring out the garbage every thursday" (it asks what time), "every morning at 7 tell me the weather", "will it rain tomorrow in Bergen?", "what is 5 feet 10 in cm?", "the exchange rate for pounds today", "pick one of pizza, taco or sushi", "how many words are in this text: …".
  • Settings > Security says who can read what GlirOS keeps on this PC, and how to protect it (a password or PIN, locking the screen, BitLocker).
  • My calendar answers "what do I have on Friday?", "what's on my calendar next week?" and "am I free on Thursday afternoon?" by itself, even with a small model. Adding and moving appointments still goes through the model, which asks you first.
  • With many tools switched on, a cloud model now gets only the tools the message is about (and the one open in the side panel), not all of them: each request is much smaller and cheaper. Connectors keep their own limit.
  • Reminders from plain words: "remember to bring out the garbage every Thursday" asks what time and sets it; "change the garbage reminder to 19:00" moves it, and each reminder in Timers has a ✎ to change its time, repeat or text. My calendar now shows your reminders on their days (🔔) and names them when you ask "what do I have on Thursday?".
  • Connectors: GitHub's connector works again after GlirOS restarts, a program on this PC started with npx or uvx now starts on Windows, and when such a program stops, its own error line is shown. A small model gets the read call with a list call, is told which folder a program on this PC works in, and makes a call that only reads without asking you first.
  • When the model offers to do something ("Would you like me to read the file?") and you say yes, GlirOS tells it to do it now with the tool, never from memory. The Everyday calculators skill is found for questions like "when is the baby due if the last period started 1 March?".
  • Reading a web page checks the address it really connected to, so a site name that suddenly points into your own network isn't read.
  • Speak the subtitles starts with the voice you chose for the language in Settings > Voice, the same one read-aloud uses. The dubbed file shows its real size, and the chat's line says it in words.
  • New built-in tool, Voices: choose the voice for each language (it is used everywhere GlirOS reads aloud), hear a sample, and turn a text into a sound file in the chat's Files. Timers reads reminders aloud with your chosen voice. "Read this aloud: …" and "use Kokoro for English" are done by GlirOS itself; Save asks where; the files carry no encoder tag. A file GlirOS already made for the message isn't made again.
  • Lighter instructions for the model: the rules for plans, to-do lists and media editing come only when a message needs them, and what GlirOS adds to a message is kept within a smaller model's room, so more of the conversation fits.
  • With a small model, GlirOS now works out a due date, a BMI or a loan itself when you ask in plain words ("when is the baby due if the last period started 1 March?"), with the Everyday calculators skill, and the model tells you the result.
  • Projects with a folder on your PC: a web page opened from the folder now previews with its own CSS and JavaScript from that folder, and Open as a code project shows the folder's files (no longer files left from an older project of the same name). When you ask to change something in a small project, the model gets its code files whole. Pages that save to localStorage (a game's high score) now run in the preview.
  • Mix versions in the preview: in Files and versions, the pin on a version makes the preview use it (for example the script's v2 with the newest page and the first version of the styles). The pins stay while you open other files, the code project opens with them, and the x goes back to the newest. Nothing is deleted.
  • When the model answers with just the changed lines of a file, GlirOS puts them into the whole file itself, so the rest of the code is never lost: a card under the answer shows the change, Apply puts it in (in the project folder, or as a new version), and Test it in the preview runs it. A new script or stylesheet gets a card to link it from the page, which keeps its other links. The Files panel now says where each file is: only in this chat, the same as in the project folder on your PC, or different from it.
  • Files and versions can rename a file (its versions go with it, and a project folder's file of that name too), and so can the code project. A file deleted in Files and versions now leaves the open code project as well, and the file list fills the panel when nothing is shown below it.
  • Maths a model writes in LaTeX, like $1234 \times 56$, now shows and is read aloud as plain maths: 1234 × 56. Prices with a dollar sign are left as they are.
  • The sidebar shows project names in full (the number of chats is in the tooltip), a pulse where an answer is being written, and a dot on a chat, and on its project even when it is folded, when an answer finished while you were away, until you look at it.
  • Code in a project folder with a small model: a small folder's code now always goes with a message about changing it, and an answer that writes its lines with line numbers ("73 ctx.fillStyle …") is put into the right lines of the file. A change applied in the folder offers Test it in the preview. Linking a folder starts in Documents, and the chat's notes about what you did are in your language.
  • Code in a project folder: a page in the preview keeps what it saves (a game's high score) when you reload the preview; asking for a new script in a project no longer brings GlirOS's ready-made examples; a whole page a model writes without saying its language is taken as the page, with Use this as index.html.
  • An answer's code block that leaves parts out ("// ... existing code") is put into the file part by part, or not kept at all: it never becomes a half file the preview would run. A change card for a page, script or stylesheet has Test it in the preview on it, and when one card is applied, a card with the same change says so too.
  • The desktop app keeps what its pages remember over a restart (a version you pinned for the preview, the chats with new answers), and the Code workspace's Live preview keeps a page's saved data over ⟳. A file you name in a chat with a files connector is read for the model straight away, and a question about a connector's own things (its issues) isn't searched on the web first. While a model writes a change or a tool call, a line shows it is coming.
  • On a graphics card with 6 GB or less, the automatic context size now stops at 16 384 tokens instead of 32 768 (8 192 for a model whose conversation memory would take more than a quarter of the card): the small models answer faster there, with the same quality in our tests. Long chats are summarised as before, and you can still set a bigger size by hand in Settings › Models › Advanced.

Web version

  • Easier with the keyboard and a screen reader: a "Skip to the message box" link first, Tab stays inside Settings and dialogs (Escape closes them and goes back), the model menu moves with the arrow keys, and a screen reader reads an answer once it is written, not word by word. A dialog asked for twice shows once, and the media tools' download shows one progress note.
  • The GlirOS Helper no longer runs out of memory on longer questions (for example a question about GlirOS itself, which brings the help pages along). It downloads its model once more. If a model in the browser still runs short of memory, GlirOS tries again with less and says so in plain words.
  • Remove background in the web version: "Fast — for people" now runs in your browser, so a person can be cut out of a picture or a clip without a green screen. A picture comes back as a PNG with a see-through background; a clip is put on a colour, Blur or a screen as an MP4. Nothing is uploaded. A see-through video, "Best — any subject" and Corridor Key stay in the desktop app.
  • More by keyboard: on Media Studio's timeline a clip moves earlier or later with Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ (or Earlier and Later in its part), and a screen reader hears its place. The welcome says each step to a screen reader, and its language choice works with the arrow keys. Choices in Settings that look like a row of buttons are one Tab stop and change with the arrow keys too.
  • Media gallery: export pictures and videos into the chat (whole files in the web version) or save copies into a folder you pick; select several files and send them to Media Studio's timeline in order, each trimmed to the part you marked; and gather files from any of your folders into groups, with sub-folders shown as a tree. Your original files are never changed.
  • Tasks: "Due soon" at the top of the Tasks view lists what is overdue or due within a week, soonest first, from this chat and, under its own heading, from your other chats (a click on a chat's name opens it). Tick them right there; each stays in its own list.
  • My PC: the model button shows whether your PC can be reached: a grey dot and "offline" when it is off or asleep, green again as soon as it answers.
  • Settings > Remote access shows which GlirOS account this browser is signed in to, with Sign out, or Sign in when it isn't.
  • Media Studio's Looks: the Looks menu in Adjust (One file and a clip on the timeline) has 26 looks with a small preview of each: the ten colour looks, Film (Old film, Cinematic, Dreamy, Grain…), Print & art (Newspaper, Sketch, Pixel art…) and Fun (Heatwave, Thermal, Negative, Mirror, VHS). A look sets the colour and opens the effects it uses as their own panels under Adjust, so you can change any of it; Reset puts the look back, and Save as mine keeps your own. Or say it in the chat: "make it look like an old film".
  • Import chats from Claude and Gemini too: Settings > Chat history > Import chats takes Claude's export (Settings > Privacy > Export data) and Gemini's Google Takeout (My Activity, Gemini Apps, as JSON) beside ChatGPT's. The file is read on your device only; importing it again adds nothing.
  • Workspaces in Media Studio's timeline: the Workspace menu (top right) has Edit, Colour, Key, Sound, Text and Export (keys 1–6) and your own (Save, Update, Manage). A workspace keeps which panels stay in view, never a clip's values: in Colour, Colour and Looks stay for every clip you choose, quiet with "+ Apply to this clip" where they aren't on it yet. Each chat remembers its workspace.
  • On the timeline, Ctrl+click (or Shift+click) more clips to change them together: a slider, Remove or a look goes to all of them. Copy parts / Paste parts (top of the side) put one clip's Colour, Looks, Crop and Key on others. Drag a panel's header (or Alt+↑/↓) to reorder, and P pins.
  • Media Studio's timeline: a chosen clip or layer shows its name once with what is on it ("On this clip: Colour · Looks", each with × to take it off), its settings, and each part as a panel you can fold, reset to neutral, remove or hide. Hiding a panel never takes the part off. A rail of parts on the side (Colour, Looks, Crop, Key) adds a part with one tap, shows a dot when it is on the clip, and brings a hidden panel back.
  • Looks on the timeline's layers too (a logo or a picture-in-picture: its own colour and look, its see-through parts kept), and a look asked for in the chat ("make it look like an old film") goes on the timeline's chosen clip or layer when the timeline is open.
  • The welcome screen's suggestions fit the model you use: short, clear asks for a small model (five tips for better sleep, an explanation in three sentences, a short email), what to see on a day trip to Lillehammer for a middle-sized one, and the full Lofoten trip plan only for a big model or a cloud model.
  • Media Studio's panels: the eye now only ever means "seen in the preview". On the timeline a panel is hidden with a tap on its lit part in the rail (or P), in Edit too, and the part stays. One file's parts are panels like the timeline's: fold, the name with its preview eye, and the bin to remove. Sliders keep their value on the same line, Colour starts with the Clip panel folded, and the top button says Remove clip or Remove layer.
  • Media Studio: One file's colour part is now called Colour, the same word as on the timeline. The chosen clip's name keeps its room beside Remove clip, and One file's buttons at the bottom no longer squeeze their words onto two lines.
  • Media Studio's One file now has the timeline's side: "On this file" with a chip per part, the parts as panels, and the rail on the outer edge (Look · Shape and time · AI · Out; a part this file can't take is greyed and says why). The Workspace menu is on One file's bar too, with the same six workspaces, keys 1–6 and your own, shared with the timeline: Colour pins Colour and Looks, with "+ Add to this file".
  • Research reports: a long section folds after its first paragraph (printing opens it), a citation shows its source on hover, focus or a tap, and a Figures tab in the appendix lists every chart, map and set of steps. In the browser, Export's zip has no PDF: Save as PDF makes it. The plan has a question for each part of what you asked (Covers: shows which), adds no year you didn't give, and the Summary says what was partly found. A page that never names the subject is left out; Links lists every page read and why.
  • Replace text has Translate beside the new words: it fills them with the found text in this app's language, translated by the chat's model (a cloud model asks first; only the text is sent, not the picture). You can change it before you replace.
  • Follow the person in the web version too: a crop to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 keeps the main person in the picture as they move (Crop in One file or on a timeline clip, or "crop to 9:16 and follow the person" in the chat). The small face finder comes with the web version and runs in your browser: nothing is sent anywhere.
  • Research reports can show a picture from a source: only when the source's own page shows a free licence for it (public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA), with its full credit, and saved with the report, so opening it later loads nothing from the site. Any other source picture is shown as a card that links to the page, with no picture. A page too long for the model is read again with less of it, and a second report of the same day and title gets its own folder. A chart of years is left out.
  • Models in your browser get a lighter prompt: the tools are named, and only the calls of the tools a message is about go with it, so the right tool comes first far more often. Under each answer, How this answer was made shows what the model read, part by part.
  • Fixed: the globe (web search) pressed in a new chat before its first message was lost; that message now searches the web, and the globe stays on for the chat.
  • Skills: small functions the chat fetches the first time a question needs one, for exact answers a model gets wrong. The first: Exact maths, Calendar maths (working days, holidays, sun and moon), the Cube solver, Text and lines (counts, sorting, compare) and Everyday calculators (loans, savings, BMI; not advice). The chat asks first: "Fetch the Exact maths skill from tools.gliros.com? Nothing about your question is sent." The answer shows "Worked out by the … skill". Settings > Tools lists the skills fetched, with Remove; the web version keeps them in this browser.
  • One file: Looks has a panel of its own beside Colour (as on the timeline), a greyed part says why ("A picture has no sound."), the side scrolls on its own in full screen, and the preview's background is no longer black.
  • Settings > Pictures > Advanced: Ask before sending now says which companies you have said yes to (Ask again is greyed when there are none), and refreshing the picture model list has its own row that says what it does.
  • Cloud models: Claude now reuses the unchanged start of each request from Anthropic's cache (much cheaper on long chats); a message a switched-on tool answers ("convert 5 miles to km", "how many days to Christmas Eve") is no longer also searched on the web; and "17.5 % of 2 348.60" is read with its space between thousands.
  • When a switched-on tool should answer but doesn't (the model doesn't call it, the call fails or finds nothing), GlirOS searches the web after all and the model answers again from the results, with the sources under it. A small model's answer that says it's only a simplified version gets a bigger model offered under it.
  • Code: a long code block has its buttons (preview, side panel, copy) at its end too, and in the side panel's list of files one click on a file opens it and shows its versions.
  • A cloud model can now take up to 8 tool steps in one answer (a model on this device still 3). When the limit stops a call, a line under the answer says so: say "go on" to let it continue.
  • How this answer was made > What the model read: the tools a cloud model can call (sent as functions) have a line of their own, so the other lines show their real size.
  • Fixed: in the side panel, One file's View menu opened off the screen; it now opens just under the View button.
  • Media gallery: Make a slideshow on a group's header or the Select bar puts its pictures and clips in the chat with the slideshow card (pace, your music, the title from the group's name, the shape), then Make it.
  • Skills: Everyday calculators work out a pregnancy's due date, its weeks and trimester; general information, not medical advice, and its calls aren't written to the chat log.
  • The cloud token limit for one answer counts tokens the company reads from its cache at a tenth, as they cost.
  • Media gallery: Send to > The chat puts a picture or clip into the message you are writing, so the model can look at it, and from there One file can pick it.
  • Media gallery: Send to Media Studio with one file opens it in One file — a picture stays a picture — while several files or a part go to the timeline as before.
  • Asking about the picture in the side panel ("can you see the picture in the side panel?") gives the model what the open Media gallery shows, the file open in it included.
  • The calendar answers "is it Halloween today?" and a short follow-up like "is it today?" after "when is Halloween?", and gives its answer to the model as the one to use.
  • With the Calendar & seasons tool switched on, a question about a day ("when is Easter?", "is it Halloween today?") now gets the calendar's answer from the same rules too, instead of waiting for the model to call the tool.
  • Special days: the chat knows every day of the calendar's rules that falls today, the world's too (Women's Day, St Patrick's Day, Halloween…), and mentions it once with a short greeting where it fits.
  • The calculator no longer works out a range, a score or a fraction in an ordinary request ("plan a 3-4 day trip", "the meeting is 2-3pm", "1/2 cup sugar"). It runs by itself when you ask for a sum ("what is…", "regn ut…") or the message is mostly the sum, and "1500 kr pluss 25 % mva" is worked out.
  • Everyday requests run by GlirOS itself, even with a small model: "remember to bring out the garbage every thursday" (it asks what time), "every morning at 7 tell me the weather", "will it rain tomorrow in Bergen?", "what is 5 feet 10 in cm?", "the exchange rate for pounds today", "pick one of pizza, taco or sushi", "how many words are in this text: …".
  • My PC on a signed-out GlirOS account: your PC's models stay in the list, greyed with "sign in to use", and Sign out takes them off this browser.
  • The first time you add a key, GlirOS asks "Is this your own computer?": on a shared or public one the key is kept only until you close the tab. Settings > Security has Forget this browser (keys, chats and settings gone; downloaded models stay).
  • Opening GlirOS no longer asks Hugging Face for model sizes; the sizes come with GlirOS, and Hugging Face is contacted only when you download a model.
  • My calendar answers "what do I have on Friday?", "what's on my calendar next week?" and "am I free on Thursday afternoon?" by itself, even with a small model. Adding and moving appointments still goes through the model, which asks you first.
  • With many tools switched on, a cloud model now gets only the tools the message is about (and the one open in the side panel), not all of them: each request is much smaller and cheaper. Connectors keep their own limit.
  • Reminders from plain words: "remember to bring out the garbage every Thursday" asks what time and sets it; "change the garbage reminder to 19:00" moves it, and each reminder in Timers has a ✎ to change its time, repeat or text. My calendar now shows your reminders on their days (🔔) and names them when you ask "what do I have on Thursday?".
  • When the model offers to do something ("Would you like me to read the file?") and you say yes, GlirOS tells it to do it now with the tool, never from memory. The Everyday calculators skill is found for questions like "when is the baby due if the last period started 1 March?".
  • Safer model downloads in the browser: every model is fetched at a fixed version, so a model's files can't be swapped later. A model you already downloaded is fetched once more the next time you use it.
  • Reminders in plain words, answered in the language you wrote in: "remind me to call mom every day at five" gets "Reminder set …" even with another language chosen. When GlirOS asks what time and you answer "18", it sets the reminder and says so itself. A task for later, like "give me a recap of the news every day at two o'clock", isn't searched on the web now; the search runs when the task does.
  • The note to check official sources for tax and money questions no longer appears under ordinary Norwegian messages ("dette" means "this", not debt), or under questions about a nav bar or the benefits of something.
  • Skills: a question that names a calculator ("my BMI at …", "a loan of …") gets that calculator, a power written in words ("2 to the power of 100") gets Exact maths, and a calculator's caution line is under its card. With the globe on, a question a switched-on tool answers ("5 miles in km") is answered by the tool, not searched as well; asking to search still searches. A message in another language than the one before is answered in its own language, even with only a word or two that tell; and when a tool GlirOS ran answers, a model on your device answers with its result.
  • Skills: a question a skill works out ("15 % of the working days left this year") isn't searched on the web by itself; How this answer was made names the skills that came with the message; and when Block all is on or the chat is offline, a line says why a skill that isn't on the device wasn't fetched. A due date, BMI or loan in your question is worked out by GlirOS itself for every model on this device, and a refused try isn't shown as a card. Skills you have are ready right after a restart.
  • Web search: with the globe on, a question is searched even when a tool or skill shares a word with it (only a tool GlirOS runs itself, like a unit conversion, goes first); a small model's own web search is run by GlirOS, with Sources; Gemma's raw call marks no longer show; the search's line is in your language; How this answer was made names the tools that came with the message; and one Open button per tool.
  • Remove background and Replace text: a pale sky or sea is no longer taken for a blue screen, and "with AI" in the message always means AI; the green-screen card says which question is still open, suggests plain black behind, and shows no stray words; "replace the text STOP with GLIROS" works on a clip added to the chat, finds text on a sign over a busy background, and keeps the sign's board; Media Studio's plan line and the slideshow card speak your language. A clip attached with "replace the text …" is the one used, and a sign in capitals is translated as a sentence.
  • When a small model's own call to a tool GlirOS already ran fails ("how many km is 26.2 miles?"), the model gets GlirOS's result to answer with; a place it looks up keeps your town ("Karl Johanns gate 22, Oslo"); a stray "[/Web results]" no longer shows; How this answer was made and the buttons under tool calls use the tools' names ("Open Map"); and a question with no numbers only brings a skill when it uses that skill's own words.
  • Slideshows: a tall (9:16) or square slideshow fills the frame and keeps what stands out in each picture; clips and pictures keep the order you picked; the plan line names the shape; "make the pictures 5 seconds" changes the slideshow on the timeline, which keeps each picture's name; "all these" with files attached takes them and the chat's earlier ones; a slideshow GlirOS made isn't counted as a clip; and a message that can't take all your pictures (8 at a time) says how many were left out.
  • A music file sent with pictures isn't written down by itself; Stop before anything was sent puts your message back in the box and says so; a later round of an answer starts a new paragraph; and Cube solver 1.0.2: "solve this Rubik's cube scramble: R U R' …" is solved by GlirOS itself, also with a small model, from the moves in your message and checked; a model that calls it with the scramble gets the solution (Everyday calculators 1.0.6 also takes a model's own values first); a new scramble is never shown as a solution.
  • Media Studio's Looks: a look's slider keeps focus, so the arrow keys move it step by step, and the side stays where it was scrolled (in One file and on the timeline); the look list opens fully in view when its section sits low; and Escape on the list closes the list without making Media Studio smaller. Workspaces: moving a slider with several clips chosen changes only that value on the others; Alt+↓ works right after a fold, Ctrl+Z right after a chip's ×. A workspace just saved is ticked in the menu.

Tools

  • Voices 1.1: make the sound file as WAV, MP3, M4A or Opus (the desktop app, once Media Studio's engine is installed), then Save it where you choose or send it to Sound Studio or Media Studio. Open a subtitle file (.srt or .vtt) to have it spoken with timing, or a .txt to fill the text box. A voice that can only read aloud now says so, and which voice makes the files. A text longer than 2000 characters is kept as parts (Part 1 of 3, Next part), and Clear starts over.
  • The Translator and Voices work together: Translate first… in Voices sends the text to the Translator, and Send to Voices in the Translator brings the translation back, ready to be made into a sound file. If one of them is switched off, the other says so. Voices asks and answers in the language you wrote in and keeps a voice's name as it is; the text box and a subtitle file find their own language.

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