AWS releases Strands Decider 2B, its own Jev-style decision model
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Strands Decider 2B is fully open-sourced, small enough to run locally, and built on the torso of Qen3.5-2B to deliver calibrated choices with confidence scores instead of generated text. It briefly topped the Jevbench ranking for models of its size.
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