signalTechCrunch AI2026-09-19
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
TypeSafe AI, founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, released Jev, a non-LLM transformer model that outputs calibrated probability decisions instead of text, making it hallucination-free, faster, and cheaper - with output tokens free and input metered per billion. Vercel replaced OpenAI's Luna 5.6 with Jev for command classification and got results 5 - 18x faster with greater accuracy, while Bryo AI found Jev 10 - 20x cheaper than Gemini for email classification with reliable confidence scores, positioning it for automation, agent monitoring, and model routing.
- why now
- Jev API launch, demand crashed.
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- AI Tech & New Models
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- TechCrunch AI
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