convaiinnovations/laya (multilingual, non-autoregressive System 1 decision model)

Laya is an open-weight (Apache 2.0) "System 1" decision model from Convai Innovations, developed by Nandakishor M as an open alternative to TypeSafe's closed Jev API. It processes a state (text, email, ticket, or JSON) and typed questions (choice, score, noul) in a single forward pass, providing answers in 33–40 ms on a GPU without generating text. Laya reportedly outperforms Jev on benchmarks like AG News and emotion classification, running 6–8x faster, though it has limitations such as reduced accuracy with many options and issues with non-Latin scripts.