Where would a 144M yes/no model replace a 30B chat call in your stack?

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The newest local-LLM wave isn't another chat model — it's models that never write prose at all. "Decision models" (TypeSafe's Jev API shape, now served locally by both Ollama and llama. cpp) take a state plus typed questions and return a probability for every option in one forward pass. The pitch: half of what we point big chat models at is secretly a classification job.

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