Prime Intellect AI Releases: Prime Agent, INTELLECT-3 & INTELLECT-2

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 3 Prime Intellect releases since Apr 2025, most recently Prime Agent on Aug 5, 2026. Highlights include INTELLECT-2, INTELLECT-3, Prime Agent. All 3 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.

3 releases3 open weights4 episodesApr 2025 – Aug 2026

August 2026 1

Prime Intellect
Dev ToolsOpen weights

Prime Agent

Prime Intellect's Prime Agent: a self-improving RLM harness claiming 95.5% on ARC-AGI 3's public set

A self-improving recursive language model harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks, built on Mario Zechner's Pi: programmatic tool calling, context as a runtime variable, multi-agent messaging, and scaffolding the agent patches while running. The headline 95.5% ARC-AGI 3 claim with Opus 5 comes with LDJ's asterisk: public set only, unvalidated on the private sets, and several harnesses claim similar. Nisten's line that keeps it honest: the model is not updating its own weights; that's still the holy grail.

95.5% ARC-AGI 3 public set with Opus 5 (unvalidated)3-4 other harnesses claiming 95%+ on the same set

November 2025 1

Prime Intellect
New ModelsOpen weights

INTELLECT-3

Prime Intellect releases INTELLECT-3, a 106B open MoE model

Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-3, a 106B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters that scores 90% on AIME 2024/2025. The lab fully open-sourced the training stack alongside the weights, showing a small lab can train frontier-scale models.

106B Total parameters (12B active)90% AIME 2024/2025

April 2025 1

Prime Intellect
New ModelsOpen weights

INTELLECT-2

Prime Intellect launches INTELLECT-2, a 32B globally-distributed RL run

Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-2, a 32B reasoning model trained with globally decentralized reinforcement learning, a follow-up to the INTELLECT-1 decentralized pretraining run covered on the show in December. The release includes open weights on Hugging Face, a tech report, and the PRIME-RL training code.