Jev case: man who co-invented ChatGPT just shipped a model
Wired Jev into an Astra build's routing layer, finishing the same task 37 minutes sooner with no malformed responses to retry.
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man who co-invented ChatGPT just shipped a model that does in 0.114 sec what GPT Astra does in 8.5.
i wired Jev into the routing layer of a build i was running on Astra: same task finished 37 MIN SOONER, zero malformed responses to retry.
you hand it a situation and a list of typed questions.
it answers all of them at once, in parallel, with a confidence number attached to each.
no chain of thought, no tokens streaming out one by one.
you stop parsing a JSON blob back into your code and praying it validates, because the model physically cannot answer outside the options you defined.
the numbers TypeSafe publishes for it:
> $0.042 per million input tokens, and output tokens are free
> same accuracy as Sonnet 5 on their eval, 67.8% for both, at 294x less cost and 195x the speed
> 0.114 seconds against 8.566 for GPT-5.6 Terra on the same demo
> their Doom demo has it making around 10 decisions per second
$40M seed led by DCVC, and the name is a nod to Jevons, the economist who showed that cheaper coal meant burning more of it, not less.
this runs underneath the agent, on the calls that happen ten times a second and never get read by a person.
waitlist for the API, but the browser playground is open now. links below.
Quoted post
@CompleteSkeptic34.6M viewssourceAfter co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev • 20-200x faster • 40-400x
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Where this case fits
Filed under agents & workflows, coding & developer tools, browser & computer use. In the pattern Jev is built for, the model answers a bounded question per step — and ordinary code acts on the answer, because the answer is already a value rather than a paragraph. Other posts in the same family are on the agents & workflows page.
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