Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to the open-source community.
The company said today it’s releasing an open-source decision model called Strands Decider 2B, which is designed to make decisions rapidly by eliminating the need to generate text, which eats up vast amounts of tokens and increases response latency.
Strands Decider 2B has been optimized for local deployments and rapid experimentation, so developers can download and run it on their own laptops as well as public cloud environments. By giving developers access to a dedicated decision-making engine, AWS said, it hopes to accelerate the pace of agentic AI development more broadly.
Decision models, also known as “System 1 models,” are very different things from the large language models that everyone knows and either loves or…
