{"slug": "liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input", "title": "Liquid AI releases d1-ultra for multimodal decisions at $0.042 per million input tokens", "summary": "Liquid AI released d1-ultra on October 15th, a multimodal model that takes text, images or both and returns probabilities for defined decisions in one pass, priced at $0.042 per million input tokens with no charge for output tokens. The MIT-born startup, led by co-founder and CEO Ramin Hasani, says the model leads its 112-test suite and pitches it for tasks including identifying defects against a product specification, reviewing damage claims from customer photos and checking whether product images match their listings.", "body_md": "# Liquid AI releases d1-ultra for multimodal decisions at $0.042 per million input tokens\n\n**CEO Ramin Hasani's MIT-born startup says the model leads its 112-test suite; it returns probabilities for text and image decisions without generating output tokens.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [X](https://x.com/liquidai/status/2110777964489285875)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nLiquid AI is selling a model that outputs a decision and its probability instead of generated prose. The value depends on whether that confidence stays calibrated on real customer workflows well enough to reduce human review.\n\n[Liquid AI](https://www.liquid.ai/company), led by co-founder and CEO [Ramin Hasani (@ramin_m_h)](https://x.com/ramin_m_h), released [d1-ultra](https://www.liquid.ai/blog/d1-ultra) on October 15th, a multimodal model that takes text, images or both and returns probabilities for defined decisions in one pass. The company is pitching it for tasks such as identifying defects against a product specification, reviewing damage claims from customer photos and checking whether product images match their listings. It charges $0.042 per million input tokens and does not bill for output tokens.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/liquid-ai-d1-ultra-decision-model-launch", "published_at": "2026-10-15 18:08:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 21:25:31.097227+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Liquid AI", "d1-ultra", "Ramin Hasani", "MIT"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-ai-releases-d1-ultra-for-multimodal-decisions-at-0-042-per-million-input.jsonld"}}