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Sep 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Laya: Open-Source Decision Engine Beats Jev 7.8x Faster, 3.9% More Accurate

Laya, a 421M-parameter open-source non-autoregressive decision engine, outperforms the commercial Jev model with 7.8x faster inference, 3.9% higher accuracy, and better calibration, using a ModernBERT encoder with masked token scoring and a multilingual router, while honestly acknowledging limitations in zero-shot and high-cardinality tasks.