Perplexity opens Decider 1.3 with span extraction
Perplexity released Decider 1.3 and Decider Flash 1.3 for probabilistic classification, scoring, ranking and multimodal decisions. The new locate mode extracts exact text spans with offsets, and Perplexity publishes Apache-2.0 model artifacts alongside access through OpenRouter and the Perplexity Decisions API.
Why it matters: A bounded decision model can replace free-form generation for routing, moderation, retrieval, extraction and evaluation while returning probabilities. The smaller Flash variant creates a lower-resource option, but thresholds, calibration and access…