AWS Launches a Local Answer to TypeSafe's Jev Decision Model

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

Amazon unveils a free, fast, open source Jev killer: Strands Decider 2B makes decisions in fractions of a second

Amazon has produced a genuinely competitive Jev alternative whose strongest differentiation is not superior benchmark performance, but that it is open, self-hostable and reproducible.

AWS launches a local answer to TypeSafe's Jev decision model

AWS on Thursday launched Strands Decider 2B, its take on decision models like Jev, Kev, imajev, Laya, and others. TypeSafe’s Jev kicked off the current

AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms

AWS's Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no probabilities and scores with calibrated confidence in one forward pass, never text. It runs at a 115 ms median on an RTX 3090 and scores 0.723 on the JevBench public set, which makes it a fast local option for routing, tool selection and guardrails in AI agents.

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as the AI decision model race turns into a pile-up

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as the AI decision model race turns into a pile-up