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  "markdown": "Maintainer and steering committee member (industry track); proposed the project in early 2025. Maintainer and steering committee member, vLLM Semantic Router.\n\nHuamin Chen proposed vLLM Semantic Router in early 2025 as a senior principal software engineer in Red Hat's CTO office, and is a maintainer on its steering committee, now listed at Microsoft. He was a founding member of Kubernetes SIG Storage and co-founded the Kepler project.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huaminchen\n- GitHub: https://github.com/rootfs\n\n## What Huamin builds\n\n- [Decision 3.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/decision-3.md), graded B, 63.6/100, in Decision models. Decision 3.0 is a family of open-weight multimodal decision models from the vLLM Semantic Router team, 0.6B to 27B, under Apache-2.0. They answer choice, yes-or-no and score questions about text, images and video with a probability per option. Maintainer and steering committee member (industry track); proposed the project in early 2025, founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Vela 2.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vela.md), graded B, 67/100, in Decision models. Vela 2.0 is a family of four open-weight decision models from the vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs, released on 6 October 2026 under Apache-2.0 for routing, safety checks, personal-data spans and hallucination checks. Maintainer and steering committee member, vLLM Semantic Router, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Aayush Saini](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/aayush-saini/), Maintainer\n- [Kun-Tai Wu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kun-tai-wu/), Maintainer\n- [Xunzhuo Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xunzhuo-liu/), Co-founder, maintainer and steering committee member (industry track)\n- [Ádám Kovács](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/adam-kovacs/), Co-founder and CTO, KR Labs; committer, vLLM Semantic Router\n- [Gábor Recski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gabor-recski/), Co-founder and Chief Scientist, KR Labs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Huamin Chen?\n\nHuamin Chen proposed vLLM Semantic Router in early 2025 as a senior principal software engineer in Red Hat's CTO office, and is a maintainer on its steering committee, now listed at Microsoft. He was a founding member of Kubernetes SIG Storage and co-founded the Kepler project.\n\n### What does vLLM Semantic Router Team, vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Decision 3.0 and Vela 2.0 from vLLM Semantic Router Team, vLLM Semantic Router project and KR Labs. Decision 3.0 is a family of open-weight multimodal decision models from the vLLM Semantic Router team, 0.6B to 27B, under Apache-2.0. They answer choice, yes-or-no and score questions about text, images and video with a probability per option.\n\n### How are Huamin's tools graded?\n\nDecision 3.0 is graded B, 63.6 out of 100; Vela 2.0 is graded B, 67 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://vllm-sr.ai/\n- https://vllm-sr.ai/blog/vela-2-0-open-foundation-routing-models\n- https://vllm-sr.ai/community/team\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaamko/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaamko/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bitliu/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bitliu/\n- https://vllm-sr.ai\n- https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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