models: remove PublicAI provider; Regolo becomes the Apertus provider; emoji = feature tier; add Qwen-Image image-generation section

models.md

@@ -16,20 +16,18 @@ provider today is best on both.
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | **Tinfoil** | *private* | **Strongest — architectural** | Not a green claim | Runs in hardware enclaves (TEEs) with end-to-end encryption (EHBP), verifiable via remote attestation. Neither we nor Tinfoil can read your prompts or responses at inference time. Energy mix is not disclosed. |
 | **GreenPT** | *green* | **Policy-based** | **Strongest — 100% renewable** | Standard (non-enclave) hosting in the EU; privacy rests on GreenPT's commitments and EU data rules, not on cryptography. Compute runs on 100% renewable energy. |
-| **PublicAI** | *public* | Policy-based | Undisclosed | A gateway for **publicly developed, sovereign models** — open-weight models built by national/public programs rather than private labs. Privacy is policy-based (no enclave); energy mix is not disclosed. |
+| **Regolo** | *green* | Policy-based — **zero data retention** | **100% renewable** | EU-hosted (Italy, Seeweb) with a stated zero-data-retention policy: prompts are not stored or reused. Compute runs on 100% renewable energy. |
 
 **Reading the gradations:**
 
-- **Privacy:** *architectural* (Tinfoil) beats *policy-based* (GreenPT, PublicAI). An
+- **Privacy:** *architectural* (Tinfoil) beats *policy-based* (GreenPT,
-  enclave protects you even if the provider is compromised; a policy protects
+  Regolo). An enclave protects you even if the provider is compromised; a
-  you only as far as the provider keeps its word. Both are better than a
+  policy protects you only as far as the provider keeps its word. Both are
-  provider with neither.
+  better than a provider with neither — and Regolo adds a written
-- **Green energy:** *100% renewable* (GreenPT) beats *undisclosed* (Tinfoil,
+  zero-data-retention commitment on top of its policy.
-  PublicAI). GreenPT reports its energy mix; the others do not, so we can't
+- **Green energy:** *100% renewable* (GreenPT, Regolo) beats *undisclosed*
-  claim greenness for them.
+  (Tinfoil). GreenPT and Regolo both run on 100% renewable energy; Tinfoil's
-- **Sovereignty:** *publicly developed* (PublicAI) is its own value — the models
+  mix is not disclosed.
-  come from public/national AI programs, built as public goods rather than
-  proprietary products. It's a third axis, independent of privacy and energy.
 
 Trade-offs are real: the most private option (Tinfoil) isn't the greenest, and
 the greenest option (GreenPT) isn't the most private. The point of the co-op is
@@ -69,8 +67,9 @@ The emoji in the model name marks its **value tier** (the same icons used in the
 
 - 🔒 **Private** — Tinfoil: architecturally private (TEE enclaves)
 - 🌱 **Green** — GreenPT: 100% renewable energy
-- 📖 **Public** — PublicAI: publicly developed, sovereign open models
+- 🌱 **Green** — Regolo: EU-hosted, zero data retention, renewable-powered
-- ⚡ **Regolo** — EU-hosted, zero data retention, renewable-powered
+  (the 🌱 emoji marks renewable-powered providers — GreenPT and Regolo — not a
+  specific company)
 
 | Model | Provider | Privacy | Green | Vision | Context | Pricing (in / out / cached) | Notes |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -80,10 +79,8 @@ The emoji in the model name marks its **value tier** (the same icons used in the
 | `🔒 tinfoil/gpt-oss-120b` | Tinfoil | architectural | undisclosed | — | 131K | $0.15 / $0.60 / — | Lightweight open-weight reasoning; cheapest private tier. |
 | `🌱 greenpt/glm-5.3-flash` | GreenPT | policy | 100% renewable | — | 1M | $0.11 / $0.44 / $0.022 | Fast GLM model, renewable energy. |
 | `🌱 greenpt/glm-5.3` | GreenPT | policy | 100% renewable | — | 1M | $1.10 / $4.40 / $0.275 | GLM flagship — strongest agentic model in the green tier. |
-| `📖 publicai/apertus-v1.5-8b` | PublicAI | policy | undisclosed | ✅ | 262K | $0.10 / $0.20 / — | Fully open sovereign model, small/fast, image understanding. |
+| `🌱 regolo/apertus-70b` | Regolo | policy (ZDR) | ✅ 100% renewable | ✅ | 65K | $0.46 / $2.44 / — | Fully open sovereign model (Apache-2.0), large/capable, image understanding. |
-| `📖 publicai/apertus-v1.5-70b` | PublicAI | policy | undisclosed | ✅ | 262K | $0.82 / $2.92 / — | Fully open sovereign model, large/capable, image understanding. |
+| `🌱 regolo/qwen3.5-122b` | Regolo | policy (ZDR) | ✅ 100% renewable | ✅ | 262K | $1.16 / $4.87 / — | Large vision+reasoning MoE (Qwen 3.5, 122B-A10B); biggest context in the roster. |
-| `⚡ regolo/apertus-70b` | Regolo | policy | zero data retention, 100% renewables | ✅ | 65K | $0.46 / $2.44 / — | Same open-weights Apertus 70B via an Italian EU host — failover pair with PublicAI. |
-| `⚡ regolo/qwen3.5-122b` | Regolo | policy | zero data retention, 100% renewables | ✅ | 262K | $1.16 / $4.87 / — | Large vision+reasoning MoE (Qwen 3.5, 122B-A10B); biggest context in the roster. |
 
 Vision is verified working through the co-op gateway (base64 image input via
 `/v1/chat/completions`, standard OpenAI format). In the chat UI, just attach
@@ -135,6 +132,21 @@ curl https://gateway.inference.coop/v1/chat/completions \
       ]}]}'
 ```
 
+### Image generation
+
+`🌱 regolo/qwen-image` (Regolo, EU-hosted, zero data retention) generates
+images from a text prompt. In the chat, use the 🎨 button and describe what
+you want — no prompt engineering needed. Via the API:
+
+```bash
+curl https://gateway.inference.coop/v1/images/generations \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer ***" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"model": "regolo/qwen-image", "prompt": "a watercolor painting of a mountain lake", "n": 1, "size": "512x512"}'
+```
+
+The response returns base64-encoded JPEG(s). Billed per pixel generated.
+
 ### About the Apertus models
 
 Apertus is the **Swiss AI Initiative's** open foundation model, built by a