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Amazon releases Strands Decider 2B, a Jev-inspired decision model

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Amazon Web Services has launched an open-source decision model named Strands Decider 2B, inspired by TypeSafe's Jev. This model is designed for high-speed, low-cost decision-making in workflows, providing confidence scores for its choices.

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The release of Strands Decider 2B marks Amazon's entry into the decision model space, following the trend of AI developers seeking alternatives to large language models.

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Strands Decider 2B is fully open-sourced and small enough to run locally.

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The model briefly reached the top spot on the Jevbench ranking for models of its size.

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Strands Decider is built on the torso of an LLM, Qen3.5-2B.

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TypeSafe named their model Jev after economist William Stanley Jevons.

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Diogo Almeida, CEO of TypeSafe, stated that the current batch of models seems more like ML people wanting to implement a cool architecture than a team dedicated to making intelligence useful.

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