Decision-model meme spreads: Cloudflare ships Clef, Perplexity lists its OSS haul
From the AI digest for 2026-10-02
The category's X layer (mostly Oct 1, after the digests went to print): "Today, we're releasing two Cloudflare-trained decision models, Clef and Clef-flash" (blog, ~9:52 PM ET) — with the commentary "never seen an idea spreading so fast." Perplexity's roundup RT listed the OSS string: pplx-decider-v1-27b (85.7% avg across 11 benchmarks, "ahead of Jev"), pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview (SoTA contextual embeddings on ConTEB), and Lily (local…). And Arav promised to "bring down the price even further over the coming days" — ledgered (review-by Oct 8).
What's genuinely new: the meme is now vendor-ubiquitous — Cloudflare joins as distribution-owner (edge network + decision model is a routing play); Perplexity's embed-model release shows the category is spilling into adjacent model classes. Full analysis in the ai digest.