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Baseten releases elephant-1 (9B, MIT, Qwen3.5-9B base), a decision model that ties d1-ultra on the AA Decision Index at about a quarter of the cost

Base Labs at Baseten has released open weights for elephant-1, a 9B decision model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B. It doesn't generate text. You give it a state (a ticket, a document, a prompt to screen) and a set of yes/no, multiple-choice or ordered-score questions, and it returns a probability for…

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  1. 2026-10-23 16:26 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Baseten releases elephant-1 (9B, MIT, Qwen3.5-9B base), a decision model that ties d1-ultra on the AA Decision Index at about a quarter of the cost

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