Nace.AI
An AI model research and development company focused on decision models, which introduced the Drex series of decision models.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Nace.AI released Drex v2.0, a small decision model that outputs judgments rather than prose, launched via OpenRouter hosting.
Nace.AI launched Drex on September 24, 2026, claiming it topped the public decision index.
Nace released a self-hostable version, Drex DLM, whose backbone is the NVIDIA Efficient-DLM-8B diffusion language model, with the decision adapter already merged into the weights.
Nace.AI is a startup located in Palo Alto that completed a $21.5 million seed round in May 2026 led by Walden Catalyst, targeting the audit, compliance and finance markets.
Nace has not yet said whether the hosted version Drex v2.0 uses exactly the same architecture as the open-source Drex DLM.
Nace.AI open-sourced a decision model called Drex 1.5
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Nace.AI is a startup located in Palo Alto that completed a $21.5 million seed round in May 2026 led by Walden Catalyst, targeting the audit, compliance and finance markets.
50%UnverifiedNace has not yet said whether the hosted version Drex v2.0 uses exactly the same architecture as the open-source Drex DLM.
50%UnverifiedNace.AI released Drex v2.0, a small decision model that outputs judgments rather than prose, launched via OpenRouter hosting.
50%UnverifiedNace.AI launched Drex on September 24, 2026, claiming it topped the public decision index.
50%UnverifiedNace released a self-hostable version, Drex DLM, whose backbone is the NVIDIA Efficient-DLM-8B diffusion language model, with the decision adapter already merged into the weights.
50%UnverifiedNace.AI open-sourced a decision model called Drex 1.5
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