Jev beats GPT-5.6 at predicting book tastes, 53x cheaper and 25x faster
venturetwins · x · 2026-09-20
The author used 1,000 Goodreads ratings as training data and held out 100 to test, asking both Jev and GPT-5.6 to guess which books would earn 5 stars.
Jev was slightly more accurate while being 53x cheaper and 25x faster — a hands-on example of small models' cost-efficiency on personalized prediction tasks.
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