d3-turbo: 26B-parameter model answers many questions from one read, outpacing larger rivals on throughput
The vLLM Semantic Router team released d3-turbo on Hugging Face on 19 October 2026, a 26-billion-parameter model with a 460-million-parameter image encoder under an Apache 2.0 license. Rather than generating free-form text, it returns probability distributions over options the user predefines, such as routing a customer ticket or flagging urgency. Its sibling d3-flash re-reads the input for every question, while d3-turbo reads once and answers many, which the author's benchmarks on a single AMD MI325X show becomes faster beyond about four questions. At 255 questions, the reported median latency was 2.12 seconds for d3-turbo versus 32.94 seconds for d3-flash, though d3-flash was quicker for a single question. The model supports choice, yes/no, score, box, and tracking tasks, and accepts up to 131,072 tokens of context when long-context mode is enabled.
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