Fastino AI Releases: GLiDE & GLiGuard

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Fastino releases since May 2026, most recently GLiDE on Oct 8, 2026. Highlights include GLiGuard, GLiDE. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live, plus key numbers where we have them.

2 releases1 open weight2 episodesMay 2026 – Oct 2026

October 2026 1

May 2026 1

Fastino Labs
New ModelsOpen weights

GLiGuard

Fastino Labs GLiGuard: 300M open guardrail model matches SOTA safety models

Fastino Labs released GLiGuard, a 300M-parameter open source guardrail model that matches state-of-the-art safety models 23-90x its size while delivering 16x higher throughput. It ships under Apache 2.0, making small, fast, deployable guardrails available to everyone.

300M parameters