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Nace AI releases Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model for local inference

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Nace AI has released Drex Max v1, a 27-billion parameter multimodal decision model, as open weights. This model is designed to run locally on consumer hardware, including Apple Silicon Macs with as little as 24GB of RAM, and can also operate on NVIDIA GPUs. Drex Max v1 achieves a score of 67.52 on the Decision Index 0.4 benchmark, outperforming its predecessor, Drex v2.0, and offers a long context window of up to 262,144 tokens. AI

IMPACT Enables local execution of complex decision-making tasks, potentially reducing reliance on cloud infrastructure for specific AI applications.

RANK_REASON Open-weight release of a new, capable decision model from a named AI lab.

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Nace AI releases Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model for local inference

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COVERAGE [4]

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

    Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon

    <p>Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/01/nace-ai-open-sources-drex-max-v1-local-inference/">Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Mode…

  2. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/m4rkGS ·

    [Release] Drex Max v1: Open-weight 27B multimodal decision model, 262K context, local inference on Apple Silicon

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xl5yfs/release_drex_max_v1_openweight_27b_multimodal/"> <img alt="[Release] Drex Max v1: Open-weight 27B multimodal decision model, 262K context, local inference on Apple Silicon" src="https://external-previe…

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model sc

    📰 Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. 📰 Source: MarkTechPost 🔗 Link: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/01/nace-ai-o…

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  4. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model sc

    📰 Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. 📰 Source: MarkTechPost 🔗 Link: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/01/nace-ai-o…

    LINKS marktechpost.com/…/nace-ai-open-sources-d…

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