Open-source model Jev called out for not crediting Lava, its 8192-context prior work

nischay_twt · x · 2026-09-21

JFPuget highlights Lava as clear prior work and inspiration for the open-source Jev model: Lava is faster but limited to an 8192-token context. He speculates Jev fixed this by replacing ModernBert with an autoregressive encoder like a 1.7B Qwen model, and notes Jev never acknowledged Lava.

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