Perplexity open-sources pplx-decider v1.2 multimodal decision models, Flash up to 5x faster
denisyarats · x · 2026-10-17
Perplexity released its next generation of open-weight multimodal decision models, pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, with weights on Hugging Face.
- Text and vision scores improve; inference is up to 5x faster, with all questions in a request run in one pass.
- Flash is the top-ranked 4B model on the Decision Index.
- The HF repo confirms chat templates supporting both image and video inputs.
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