vLLM Semantic Router ships Decision 3.0 — five open decision models
From the AI digest for 2026-10-11
What happened: LLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0 (marktechpost, ~Oct 11): five open multimodal decision models ranging 0.8B–27B, with the d3 model scoring 64.1.
What's genuinely new: A development of the decision-models thread — the category's open-weights tier appearing for the first time, at sizes that make local deployment trivial. No shared benchmark in capture puts d3's 64.1 next to Jev or pplx (the runner's gold-set binaries — pplx 85.2%, strands 87.7% — measure a different task shape). Filed as a category expansion, not a leaderboard move.
Watch: Whether d3 runs in the runner's format (the format:json lesson — Qwen3.5:9b failed 10/10 on response parsing); an independent check of 64.1; whether the 0.8B tier works at the embedded decision-point role.
Links: Marktechpost — What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router's New Open Decision Models