The Anti-ChatGPT Model

PLUS: What stays expensive when AI gets cheap?

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Barsee
21 Sep

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here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

  • One of ChatGPT’s inventors thinks AI talks too much

  • Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

One of ChatGPT’s inventors thinks AI talks too much - former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, who helped build ChatGPT and invent RLHF, has launched Jev. It’s an AI model built for software rather than humans, so instead of writing text it spits out decisions + probabilities.

Turns out removing language makes things pretty cheap. Jev costs just over $0.04 per million input tokens, compared to $10 for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, while outputs are apparently so cheap they’re just making them free. They also claim responses take 70-500ms instead of seconds/minutes for traditional LLMs.

TypeSafe calls Jev a first-of-its-kind “System One” model, focused more on intuition than reasoning. You give it some context and define the possible outputs in advance, then Jev picks an answer + tells you how confident it is. It can also answer a bunch of questions in parallel, without one answer affecting the others.

Here are some things built using Jev:

It’s not replacing ChatGPT. Jev doesn’t write emails, code or explanations. The bet is that a lot of software doesn’t need an AI to talk to it anyway. It just needs something cheap and fast that can classify, route, score or decide what happens next.

TRENDING TOOLS

  • Acrobat's new AI - helps you understand documents faster, turning dense reports into visual summaries, interactive reports, podcasts, and audio experiences you can take anywhere (sponsored)

  • Astra for Law - OpenAI's GPT-6 setup for legal research and drafting

  • ChatGPT in Word - users can now add OpenAI's flagship chatbot to Microsoft Word for turning notes into drafts, proofreading and suggesting edits

  • Hemmingway-1 - a model based on Qwen3.8-27B that promises to sound and write like a person more than any other model around

  • Laya - a version 50 times faster than Jev, running on your device

  • Qwen-Image-2.1 - the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series

  • Pion - agents for running fully autonomous companies

  • Tables - finds you sales leads from a database of 300M+ verified contacts when you describe your ideal customer in plain English

  • Runway Enhance Frame Rate - a frame interpolation model that converts any footage to the specs users need

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