ScaleDown launches constrained decoding models for fast classify, extract, and summarize in agents
ScaleDown's task-specific CDMs (Classify, Extract, Summarize, Compress) take up to 1M tokens of text or images and return constrained answers instead of free prose. LangChain shipped langchain-scaledown middleware and LangSmith gateway support; ScaleDown claims roughly 200x faster and far cheaper than frontier models on these narrow tasks.