Key Info
Perplexity open-sourced Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3, adding a 'locate' capability that lets users describe what to find and returns the matching text with character offsets. The models are free on OpenRouter for one week, with weights available on Hugging Face.
Highlights
- 'Locate' supports batch-mode decision-making plus evidence/entity extraction
- On 17 out-of-domain NER, PII and extractive QA tasks, Decider models significantly outperform the best general extraction model
- On 63 of Perplexity's own production classification tasks, v1.3 is 6.54 points more accurate than current classifiers
- Available via the Decisions API, Hugging Face, and OpenRouter; free on OpenRouter for a week