{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-13/nace-ai-drex-max-decision-index","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-13/nace-ai-drex-max-decision-index.md","title":"Nace.AI's Drex Max v1.1 Tops Decision Index at 73","headline":"Nace.AI's Drex Max v1.1 Ranks No. 1 Among Decision Models on Artificial Analysis Index","description":"Nace.AI's Drex Max v1.1 ranks No. 1 among decision models on Artificial Analysis's Decision Index with a rounded score of 73.","section":"Product Launches","published_at":"2026-11-13T19:31:28+00:00","modified_at":"2026-11-13T19:31:28+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Drex Max v1.1 ranks No. 1 among decision models on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index with a rounded score of 73.","Drex Max v1.1 supports text and image inputs and a 262K-token context window, with Artificial Analysis reporting 283 milliseconds for its Time per task metric.","Nace.AI closed a $21.5 million seed round in May 2026 led by Walden Catalyst Ventures with General Catalyst participation."],"companies":[{"name":"Nace.AI","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000n3t/nace-ai","website":"https://nace.ai"},{"name":"Artificial Analysis","is_primary":false,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00q4yeu/artificial-analysis","website":"https://artificialanalysis.ai"}],"source":{"publisher":"Business Wire","title":"Nace.AI’s Drex Max Ranks No. 1 Among Decision Models on Artificial Analysis’s Decision Index","url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261113545014/en/"},"other_sources":[{"publisher":"Prweb","url":"https://www.prweb.com/releases/greynoise-launches-ai-cyber-index-benchmarking-46-models-on-real-defensive-security-work-302937727.html"},{"publisher":"PR Newswire","url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cisco-unveils-frontier-ai-red-teaming-and-agent-observability-to-secure-the-agentic-enterprise-302933763.html"},{"publisher":"StartupHub.ai","url":"https://www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/artificial-intelligence/2026/warp-says-your-agent-hides-its-wasted-work"}],"tags":["Product Launches","Nace.AI","Artificial Analysis"],"body_markdown":"[Nace.AI](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000n3t/nace-ai) said on November 13, 2026 that its Drex Max v1.1 ranks No. 1 among decision models on the [Artificial Analysis](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00q4yeu/artificial-analysis) Decision Index, with a rounded score of 73. The announcement was made in a [Business Wire](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261113545014/en/) press release.\n\n## How Drex Max v1.1 Scored on the Decision Index\n\nThe Artificial Analysis Decision Index combines Decision Scores across five evaluations with a separate Symmetry Score. It rewards correct answers and well-calibrated confidence, penalizes confidently wrong answers, and assesses consistency when questions are rephrased. Nace.AI said the ranking among decision models was verified on Artificial Analysis's model page on November 12, 2026, and that the November 11 chart displays 18 of 19 models, with Drex Max v1.1, SubQ Snap 1.2 and GLiDE v1.2 each showing a rounded score of 73.\n\nDrex is built for the repeated choices AI agents make in production, such as which tool to call, how to classify a document, or when to involve a person. In an invoice-review workflow described by the company, a developer gives Drex the invoice, its purchase order and the company's approval rules, and Drex returns a probability for each option. The workflow then applies the customer's thresholds and approval controls to decide what proceeds and what goes to a reviewer.\n\nArtificial Analysis has released other benchmarks in recent weeks. On October 27, 2026, it launched the HLE-Diamond leaderboard, with Google's Gemini 4 Carbon leading at 69.1% overall accuracy, according to Crypto Briefing.\n\n## Drex Max v1.1 Inputs, Context and Speed\n\nDrex Max v1.1 supports text and image inputs and a 262K-token context window, enabling decisions informed by documents, images and extended context. Artificial Analysis reports 283 milliseconds for its Time per task metric. Developers can get started with Drex at [nace.ai/developers](https://nace.ai).\n\n\"LLMs design the workflow. Nace small models run it. Drex is the one that decides,\" said Dos Baha, Founder and CEO of Nace.AI.\n\n## Nace.AI's Funding and Enterprise Deployments\n\nNace.AI closed a $21.5 million seed round in May 2026 led by Walden Catalyst Ventures with General Catalyst participation, according to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data). The company's funding rounds on record number three, including a $5 million seed in March 2025 led by General Catalyst and an undisclosed round in June 2026. The same records list total funding of $26.5 million and a valuation estimate of $100 million to $250 million.\n\nNace.AI offers on-premises AWS and Azure cloud deployments, enabling enterprise customers with strict data-residency and regulatory requirements to run the MetaModel platform inside their own environments.\n\n## Benchmark Launches From GreyNoise and Cisco\n\nGreyNoise launched the GreyNoise AI Cyber Index on November 12, 2026, a benchmark evaluating 46 AI models on defensive security tasks using eight years of real attack data, [Prweb](https://www.prweb.com/releases/greynoise-launches-ai-cyber-index-benchmarking-46-models-on-real-defensive-security-work-302937727.html) reported. The top score was 74.2% for Opus 5.5.\n\nCisco announced on November 9, 2026 that it added Anthropic's Claude Mythos to its AI Defense red teaming framework and introduced Splunk Agent Observability with Tokenomics, [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cisco-unveils-frontier-ai-red-teaming-and-agent-observability-to-secure-the-agentic-enterprise-302933763.html) reported. Tokenomics will be available in private preview in December, with general availability in AWS Marketplace early 2027.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}