Perplexity Releases Decider v1.3: Open-Weight Decision Models Add Locate

Perplexity released pplx-decider-v1.3 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3, open-weight decision models that return probabilities for yes/no, multiple-choice and score questions rather than generated text, with weights under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and availability in the Perplexity Decisions API and on OpenRouter. The main addition is Locate, which extracts exact text spans by type or instruction for NER, PII detection and extractive QA. Perplexity reports 91.6% mean accuracy on 63 query-classification tasks and a 0.27% answer-flip rate, with all figures self-reported.