Building a listed tool
Jerry Ma
Named behind 2 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Jerry builds
pplx-decider B · Decision models
pplx-decider is Perplexity's 27B decision model, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B. It answers yes or no, choice and score questions about text, JSON and images with probabilities, through Perplexity's hosted Decisions API or open weights on Hugging Face.
VP Global Affairs and Deputy CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
pplx-decider-flash B · Decision models
pplx-decider-flash is Perplexity's 4B decision model, a Qwen3.5-4B fine-tune distilled from the 27B pplx-decider. It answers yes or no, choice and score questions about text, JSON and images with probabilities, through the hosted Decisions API or open weights.
VP Global Affairs and Deputy CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Andy Konwinski Co-founder, Perplexity
- Antoine Chaffin Member of Technical Staff; decision-model research contributor
- Aravind Srinivas Co-founder, Perplexity
- Denis Yarats Co-founder and CTO, Perplexity
- Johnny Ho Co-founder, Perplexity
Questions
Who is Jerry Ma?
Jerry Ma is VP Global Affairs and Deputy CTO.
What does Perplexity make?
Anchor Terminal lists pplx-decider and pplx-decider-flash from Perplexity. pplx-decider is Perplexity's 27B decision model, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B. It answers yes or no, choice and score questions about text, JSON and images with probabilities, through Perplexity's hosted Decisions API or open weights on Hugging Face.
How are Jerry's tools graded?
pplx-decider is graded B, 68.2 out of 100; pplx-decider-flash is graded B, 68 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (8)
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antoine-chaffin_i-wanted-to-brag-about-how-we-went-from-564-activity-7513562457974517761-V8Z7
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoine-chaffin/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/majerry_another-week-another-new-model-perplexitys-activity-7513288902976151552-4Hs0
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/majerry/
- https://x.com/perplexity_ai
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai/
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/discussions
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/decisions/quickstart
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