TechCrunch1 Oct 2026Tim Fernholz

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B, released the same week OpenAIannounced a similar offering, is a high-speed, low-cost way to sort between pre-decided options and deliver a measure of how confident it is in its choice.

He said it offers customers “a workflow step that can be structured in a way that is more reliable, thanks to the confidence scores, thanks to the closed domain of answers, [and is] lower latency, potentially lower cost.”Like other decision models, Strands Decider is built on the “torso” of an LLM, in this case Qen3.5-2B, but instead of generating text, it delivers calibrated choices.

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