Microsoft launches Decision-1: 9B Qwen-based scoring model

Microsoft released Decision-1, built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, designed to score fixed answer options with probabilities rather than generate open-ended text. Available via Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, it targets routing, classification, and verification.

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