Microsoft Enters the Decision Model Race
Microsoft-Decision-1 arrives for fast structured decisions; @sudoingX clocks Cloudflare’s rival clef at 56 ms.
Satya Nadella introduced Microsoft-Decision-1, a model for fast decision-making that he says delivers top performance on structured decision tasks. Microsoft claims it beats LLMs and rival decision models on latency and quality, and testing is already under way across the company. @sudoingX dates the category to September, when Typesafe shipped Jev and Cloudflare answered with clef.
Clef does not chat: it reads the situation and answers in one forward pass with no tokens written. @sudoingX ran Cloudflare’s clef fully local on an RTX 5090 laptop. Clef flash 9B decided in 56 ms, 15.6 times a second, and played three minutes of Breakout, losing 5 balls. The 27B model reads intent better but needs 176 ms an answer.
No weights shipped with Microsoft’s post, so for now Decision-1 runs where Microsoft lets it. @sudoingX plans the same Breakout run on the same laptop the day weights open. @0xAlphana’s nine-model test found clef-27b tied Jev at 97% on yes/no questions, second hardest to con, and wants Decision-1 on the same adversarial paper.