Today we’re shipping Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK) in Nexus.

That means you can now connect your own AI provider key(s) and run Nexus using your billing, your rate limits, and your model access—while still getting the Nexus experience for orchestration, workflows, and multi-model routing.

This launch is about one thing: control without complexity.

If you’ve ever wished you could use Nexus with your existing AI provider account, your billing, your quotas, your model access, this one’s for you.

We’re introducing Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK) in Nexus. Soon, you’ll be able to securely connect your own provider keys and run your Nexus workflows using your own account credentials and rate limits.

This is a big step toward what we want Nexus to be: open, flexible, and aligned with how real teams build, across multiple models, vendors, and deployment preferences.

Jada walks into English with a blank page and a tight chest. The essay prompt might as well be in another language. She opens an AI chatbot and types: “Write this for me.” Thirty seconds later, she has five tidy paragraphs. Relief. She turns it in.

Across the room, Mateo opens the same tool and types: “Ask me questions until I can build my own thesis. Don’t write the essay.” The bot pushes back: What do you actually believe? What evidence proves it? What would someone argue against you? Mateo writes, gets stuck, revises, checks his logic, and ends class with a messy draft, and a clearer mind.

Same AI. Same assignment. Two totally different outcomes.

That’s the part adults keep missing: AI doesn’t create a new “smart kid vs. dumb kid” divide. It widens the gap between students who use AI to think and students who use AI to hide.

If you wouldn’t write a paper using only one source, you shouldn’t rely on only one AI model either.

AI can be incredibly helpful for studying, outlining, tutoring, and editing—but it has a well-known weakness: hallucinations. That’s when an AI produces information that sounds confident and polished, but is wrong, invented, or unsupported.

For students, that’s not just annoying. It can lead to:

• incorrect homework solutions

• misleading study notes

• fake citations in essays

• misunderstood concepts (the worst kind of “learning”)

The simplest way to reduce that risk is also one of the most underrated study skills of the AI era:

Use more than one AI. Compare outputs. Force verification.