Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model based on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, designed to select from fixed answer options with high speed and accuracy. It supports tasks like classification and routing, offers a 32,000-token context window, and is notably faster and cheaper than comparable models. Microsoft plans to rebase it on other models including OpenAI's and its own MAI models.