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Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.

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  1. 2026-10-01 18:15 · Techmeme
    Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
  2. 2026-09-29 20:06 · r/ChatGPTPro
    Open-source Jev alternative: 5.33 ms typed decisions (choice/noul/score) on CPU and small devices.

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