AWS Strands Decider 2B: Open Decision Model for Agents
Not every step in an AI agent needs a model that writes. Many steps only need a model that picks. That is the idea behind Strands Decider 2B, a new open-source release from Amazon Web Services' Strands Labs team. AWS describes it as a lightweight "decision model" built to make fast choices inside agentic workflows without generating any text.
The model is out now on Hugging Face. The full codebase, training scripts and examples are on GitHub. AWS has tuned it for local use and quick experiments, so developers can run it on their own laptops as well as in public cloud environments.