Vercel's AI Gateway now offers Perplexity's Decider V1.2 27B and Decider Flash V1.2 4B, two multimodal models built to classify, route and score text, records and images. They answer yes/no, multiple-choice and rubric questions with probabilities, which apps can use to route tickets or escalate uncertain cases to a human.
Hugging Face is hosting Beam, an open model with 501 billion parameters. The release is pitched as a model that users can own, adapt to their needs and run at scale.
Vercel has added Reflection AI's Beam, the model previously tested under the stealth name Cat Jam, to its AI Gateway, free for a limited launch period. Beam is a US open-weight reasoning model under Apache 2.0, aimed at coding and agent work, with a 1M-token context and only 23B of its 501B parameters active per token.
IBM's Granite team presents Granite Switch 4.1 on Hugging Face, which brings chat, decision-making and speech together behind a single endpoint.
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses worldwide on October 13, at a launch price of $2 per million input tokens. That rate is set to double on December 1, raising costs for teams building on the model.
Liquid AI's d1-ultra takes text and images and returns calibrated probabilities in a single forward pass. It scores 65 on Artificial Analysis's Decision Index and is priced at $0.042 per million input tokens.