Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 30, 2026Published at 2:34 AM EDT · New York
Liquid AI's d1 and a new Ollama endpoint answer typed yes-or-no, choice and score questions in one call, with a 9-billion-parameter open model averaging 91 milliseconds per decision on a laptop.

Liquid AI has released d1, the first of what it calls decision models. The model takes text or JSON context and returns calibrated probabilities over a predefined set of answers in a single call, producing zero generated tokens. Three respo…
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