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Oct 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity's pplx-decider-v1.1-27b: Open-Weight Decision Model Beats Jev, Runs Locally

Perplexity releases pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, an open-weight decision model based on Qwen3.8-27B that tops the Decision Index benchmark, outperforming Jev and other clones, with non-causal attention and a calibrated decision head for classification, routing, and scoring tasks, deployable on 80GB GPUs.