{ "version": "1.0.0", "title": "Decision models and AI governance November 2026", "dateModified": "2026-11-15", "author": "Fabrizio Degni", "canonical": "https://paloframework.org/PALO_DecisionModels.html", "scope": "21 curated family entries from the supplied research; not an exhaustive census or production qualification.", "evidenceBoundary": "Primary source checked means documentation was inspected, not that inference, exact sibling releases, licenses, residency or service availability were qualified.", "models": [ { "name": "Jev", "owner": "TypeSafe AI", "accessRoute": "Hosted API", "source": "https://typesafe.ai/", "accessUrl": "https://docs.typesafe.ai/", "strength": "Typed semantic judgments and confidence estimates.", "limitation": "Closed service; calibrate thresholds on your own traffic.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Microsoft-Decision-1", "owner": "Microsoft", "accessRoute": "Microsoft Foundry / OpenRouter", "source": "https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model-foundry/", "accessUrl": "https://ai.azure.com/catalog/models/Microsoft-Decision-1", "strength": "Routing, classification and verification through structured scoring.", "limitation": "Vendor benchmark leadership is scoped to its own evaluation; 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hosted and local options across the family.", "limitation": "Hosted d1-ultra and open d1 checkpoints have different capabilities and terms.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Mammoth-1 / Elephant-1 / Joey-1", "owner": "Base Labs / Baseten", "accessRoute": "Baseten API / dedicated deployment / weights", "source": "https://www.baseten.co/library/mammoth-1/", "accessUrl": "https://www.baseten.co/library/mammoth-1/", "strength": "Mammoth offers text/image decisions and an MIT license.", "limitation": "Dedicated GPU capacity and cost need workload measurements; sibling details require their own cards.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "GLiDE v1.2 / GLiNER2.5-Decide", "owner": "Fastino Labs", "accessRoute": "Fastino API / downloadable weights", "source": "https://fastino.ai/blog/training-glide-sota-decision-model", "accessUrl": "https://fastino.ai/", "strength": "GLiDE v1.2 distills reasoning into direct decision predictions.", "limitation": "Original adaptive-thinking GLiDE and v1.2 are different releases; check the Community License.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Drex Max v1.1 / Drex 2.0", "owner": "Nace.AI", "accessRoute": "Nace console / API", "source": "https://www.nace.ai/drex/decision-index", "accessUrl": "https://console.nace.ai/", "strength": "Vendor publishes a dated view of decision quality and task costs.", "limitation": "The comparison is hosted by a competing vendor; it is not an independent PALO measurement.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "SubQ Snap 1.2", "owner": "Subquadratic", "accessRoute": "SubQ console / Decisions API", "source": "https://docs.subq.ai/using-the-api/models/", "accessUrl": "https://console.subq.ai/", "strength": "Versioned decision endpoint for text and images.", "limitation": "Use a versioned ID; latest aliases move. Confirm long-context behavior on your workload.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Strands Decider 2B", "owner": "Strands Labs", "accessRoute": "Repository / self-hosted server", "source": "https://github.com/strands-labs/strands-decider", "accessUrl": "https://github.com/strands-labs/strands-decider", "strength": "Small reference decision model with training and serving material.", "limitation": "A Strands Labs repository does not establish an AWS managed production service.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "CLM-8B", "owner": "Contrastive-LM research project", "accessRoute": "Repository / self-hosted weights", "source": "https://github.com/Contrastive-LM/CLM", "accessUrl": "https://github.com/Contrastive-LM/CLM", "strength": "Contrastive matching between states and candidate actions.", "limitation": "Action caching and benchmark speedups depend on the evaluated task and hardware.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "D3 Turbo / d3-flash / d3-mini", "owner": "vLLM Semantic Router", "accessRoute": "Model cards / self-hosted serving", "source": "https://huggingface.co/vllm-sr/d3-turbo", "accessUrl": "https://huggingface.co/vllm-sr", "strength": "Multimodal decision family with an Apache-2.0 D3 Turbo card.", "limitation": "Check each checkpoint and serving implementation; a demo API is not a service guarantee.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Laya / laya-mlx", "owner": "ConvAI Innovations", "accessRoute": "Repository / local execution", "source": "https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya", "accessUrl": "https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya", "strength": "Local non-autoregressive typed text decisions.", "limitation": "Compact models and hardware-specific timings need domain and device validation.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Sage / Sage2", "owner": "Levanto Labs", "accessRoute": "Levanto platform / API and streaming", "source": "https://docs.levanto.ai/", "accessUrl": "https://platform.levanto.ai/", "strength": "Typed decisions, extraction and streaming updates with explicit null answers.", "limitation": "Current documentation uses Sage; confirm the exact Sage2 model identifier and version before integration.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Mercury Decide", "owner": "Inception", "accessRoute": "Inception API; service wind-down announced", "source": "https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/", "accessUrl": "https://docs.inceptionlabs.ai/", "strength": "Typed classification, routing, scoring and span extraction.", "limitation": "Official documentation announces API closure after 28 December 2026; reassess new integrations.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Celeris-1.1 Decision", "owner": "Celeris", "accessRoute": "System One / Decisions API", "source": "https://docs.celeris.ai/decisions", "accessUrl": "https://docs.celeris.ai/decisions", "strength": "Documented text/image decisions and two API formats.", "limitation": "No streaming; confirm pricing and limits for the selected API route.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Bivia", "owner": "Articul8", "accessRoute": "Articul8 platform / API", "source": "https://articul8.ai/bivia", "accessUrl": "https://app.articul8.ai/", "strength": "Vendor documents multimodal typed decisions and an abstention option.", "limitation": "Validate each claimed modality and operation mode; the product page is not independent qualification.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "Quyet-1.0-Large", "owner": "Independent research", "accessRoute": "Hugging Face weights / quyet package", "source": "https://huggingface.co/chinhnc/Quyet-1.0-Large", "accessUrl": "https://huggingface.co/chinhnc/Quyet-1.0-Large", "strength": "A documented local Gemma-based decision model with typed questions.", "limitation": "The card lists 62.5 GB bf16 weights; check GPU capacity and both LICENSE and NOTICE, including base-model terms.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false }, { "name": "H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1", "owner": "H2O", "accessRoute": "H2O product page / open weights / Enterprise h2oGPTe", "source": "https://h2oai.com/products/lightning", "accessUrl": "https://h2oai.com/products/lightning", "strength": "Open-weight decision family for text and up to four images per record.", "limitation": "The product page covers the family; confirm the exact 4B v1.1 checkpoint, serving adapter and licensing terms.", "evidenceStatus": "Primary source checked", "checkedAt": "2026-11-15", "inferenceTested": false } ] }