Amazon releases open-source decision model Strands Decider 2B

AWS's Strands Labs released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model inspired by Jev and built on Qen3.5-2B. It offers high-speed, low-cost sorting of pre-decided options with confidence scores, runs locally, and addresses agentic workflow needs for specialized decision components.

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