Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B decision model for local inference
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Dense 27B model with a 262,144-token window (16,384 default) that returns option probabilities in one forward pass rather than generating text. Ships bf16 weights, a Q8_0 GGUF, an affine Q4 checkpoint and forks of llama.cpp and Ollama; Nace reports 67.52 on Decision Index 0.4, 6.27 points over Drex v2.0.
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