Forbes details emerging category of specialized AI decision models beyond Jev

A Forbes analysis documented the rapid emergence of a distinct class of AI decision models optimized for structured outputs such as predicates, fixed choices, and scores rather than free-form text generation. The piece catalogued commercial and open-weight offerings from OpenAI (Decisions API), Microsoft, Cloudflare, Perplexity and others that compete on latency, cost and deployment flexibility for high-volume agent routing, classification and verification workloads. This reflects a material shift toward lower-cost, specialized inference layers for decision-heavy applications.