Comment by softwaredoug
2 hours ago
Why is it a middling product? Most clones don’t approach its performance, and it solves a specific problem well in a way that was awkward and ignored by most frontier labs.
2 hours ago
Why is it a middling product? Most clones don’t approach its performance, and it solves a specific problem well in a way that was awkward and ignored by most frontier labs.
Because Jev is basically a "generalized classifier" which.. doesn't quite make much sense. Training a classifier is pretty easy and has been done routinely for like two decades now. Classifiers also tend to be very localized; for example, I've worked on classifiers that would bucket web traffic into "potential buyer" or "potential seller"—but this was very specific to the use case (vehicles, in our case).
If I seriously needed a classifier, I would just train my own and it would run on an iPhone. Any CTO worth their salt would suggest the same, because it's not even remotely comparable to training a large language model (w.r.t. compute or training data required).