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ConvAI Innovations founder Nandakishor Mukkunnoth has released Laya, an open-source decision model that can run on users’ own hardware, Tom’s Hardware reports. It supports multiple languages and is based on BERT-family encoder models rather than the Qwen-derived models the article says underpin many similar tools.

These systems return probabilities for structured choices, which developers can feed into software rules. That offers a different route from asking a conversational model to generate an answer, and Laya gives developers an option to inspect and run locally. The article also carries Mukkunnoth’s claim that his earlier work anticipated TypeSafe’s Jev architecture. That allegation is not established by the reporting here, so the practical news is Laya’s release, not a verdict on who inspired whom.

Discuss: For a decision model used inside an application, would you prioritise an open model you can run locally, or a hosted service with less setup?

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