Open-source (Apache 2) system-one model similar to Jev that gives confidence scores over multiple-choice options. Its authors say they proposed the concept first, and self-reported benchmarks show it slightly ahead of Jev. It comes in base, multilingual and long-context versions; the main model is 2.37 GB and fine-tuning scripts are included.
Open-weight non-autoregressive System 1 decision model returning calibrated probabilities in one forward pass across 100+ languages.
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Laya at a glance
- What is Laya?
- Laya is a model. Open-weight non-autoregressive System 1 decision model returning calibrated probabilities in one forward pass across 100+ languages.
- Does Laya work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, which has no geographic restrictions, so they can be self-hosted in the EU. No vendor-hosted service restrictions were found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Laya cost?
- Open source, open source. Free open weights under Apache 2.0; no API subscription. Self-hosted compute costs apply. Release month is approximate. Licence: Apache-2.0.
- Where was Laya shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 20 Sept 2026, at 28:34 in “OpenAI hacked, Jev, Google’s RSI, Qwen 3.8 Omni, Bonsai 2, new Gemini Live: AI NEWS”.
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Laya (also written Leia) is a family of encoder-based decision models from Convai Innovations. Rather than generating text, it answers typed questions about an input (raw text, email, ticket or JSON) in a single forward pass and outputs only probabilities and numbers. The vendor reports about 33 ms latency on a single GPU and says the output format rules out malformed JSON or free-text hallucination.
It supports three primitives: choice (pick one option from a set of criteria, with a probability distribution and calibrated confidence), score (place the input on an ordinal rubric) and noul (a boolean question returning P(true)). Typical uses are ticket routing, phishing and spam detection, jailbreak/prompt-injection screening, urgency scoring and agent observability. The vendor says it is trained with RLCD and proper scoring rules, and positions it as an open alternative to TypeSafe AI's Jev. Its authors describe it as building on their earlier 2025 arXiv work on RL-based conversion models.
Three checkpoints are bundled in the convaiinnovations/laya Hugging Face repository: an English model on ModernBERT-large (421M parameters, 512 context), a multilingual model on mmBERT-base (322M, 1024 context, up to 8k) covering 100+ languages, and a typed-decisions variant with 1024 context. An SDK can download only the requested subfolder. Fine-tuning scripts are reportedly included. Benchmark figures (including comparisons with Jev) are self-reported by the authors and not independently verified.
- Non-autoregressive: single forward pass, ~33 ms on GPU (vendor-reported)
- Three primitives: choice, score and boolean (noul) with calibrated probabilities
- Multilingual checkpoint covering 100+ languages
- Three checkpoints: English (ModernBERT-large), multilingual (mmBERT-base), typed decisions
- Apache 2.0 weights with fine-tuning scripts
- Selective subfolder download via SDK
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