https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/projects/strands-decider/ Material changes in AI models, agents, engineering and infrastructure, with primary sources and recommendations. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:56:00 GMT https://derekwang2002.github.io/ai-intelligence/en/events/ev-20261001-07/ ev-20261001-07-published Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:01:57 GMT New TRIAL <p>Strands released Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 model that chooses among typed actions in one forward pass without text decoding. It combines a Qwen3.5-2B backbone, a small pointer head and LoRA adapters. Weights, training code, data and evaluation records are public; author tests report 72.3% accuracy and 115 ms median latency on an RTX 3090.</p><p><strong>Why read: </strong>Strands Decider&apos;s open weights and complete experiment artifacts make agent routing independently reproducible.</p><p>Recommendation: TRIAL</p><p>Sources: <a href="https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/">Introducing Strands Decider 2B</a> · <a href="https://github.com/strands-labs/strands-decider">Strands Decider repository</a> · <a href="https://huggingface.co/StrandsAgents/strands-decider-2B-hobson-v19">Strands Decider 2B weights</a></p>