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vLLM Semantic Router releases d3-ultra, a 27B multimodal decision model

vLLM Semantic Router has released d3-ultra, a 27 billion parameter multimodal decision model. This model is designed to answer typed questions with probabilities rather than generating text, and it processes input once to answer all queries. It has demonstrated strong performance on internal benchmarks, particularly in text-based tasks, though it slightly underperforms its sibling model, d3-turbo, in image-based box grounding tasks. AI

IMPACT This model's ability to process inputs once for multiple probabilistic answers could streamline routing and classification tasks in AI applications.

RANK_REASON New model release from a known lab. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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vLLM Semantic Router releases d3-ultra, a 27B multimodal decision model

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Asif Razzaq ·

    vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model

    <p>vLLM Semantic Router released d3-ultra, a 27B open-weight multimodal decision model. It reads text, images and video once, then returns probabilities for every answer, scoring 87.2 on the team’s SR-Text test.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/26/vll…