Perplexity Open-Sources Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3
Character-offset span extraction built into a small open-weight model removes a common glue-code step where teams wrap LLM output with fuzzy string matching, and the 6.54-point gain over Perplexity's own production classifiers suggests targeted models now beat prompted general LLMs for extraction workloads. Engineering teams handling PII redaction, entity extraction, or document classification should benchmark Decider against their current pipeline using the free OpenRouter week. Availability on Hugging Face also lets regulated industries run the weights on-premise.
