Superwhisper AI Releases: S1-mini

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Superwhisper release so far: S1-mini on Aug 20, 2026. Superwhisper S1-mini cleans up dictation fully on-device. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

1 release1 open weight1 episodecovered Aug 20, 2026

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Superwhisper S1-mini cleans up dictation fully on-device

Superwhisper — the dictation app Karpathy made famous when he coined vibe coding — released its first open-weights model: S1-mini, a 0.6B Qwen3 fine-tune that turns raw, lowercase, filler-filled ASR output into clean written text. Apache 2.0, English-only for now, about 450MB in GGUF, and it runs entirely on-device behind Whisper or Parakeet.

0.6B parameters, Qwen3 fine-tune~450MB in GGUF