Drex Max v1.1 tops Artificial Analysis decision index at 8x lower cost
m4rkGS · reddit · 2026-11-09
Nace released Drex Max v1.1, claiming SOTA and Pareto-frontier status on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index (score 73).
Key points:
- 256k context window, vs Glide1.2's 64k and Mammoth's 16k
- Claims to be 8x cheaper than the next best model in the category
- Runs locally on a Mac via their open-source kapitsa inference engine
- v1 open weights are live on Hugging Face (Open RAIL-M); v1.1 weights coming soon, optimized for local inference
- Released a training playbook paper, "Towards Foundation Decision Models: Drex," with all prior open-weight versions available
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