Burkov dismisses Jev's speed claims; suggests ONNX DeBERTa classifiers beat LLMs

MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-09-21

Several people asked Andriy Burkov about a product called Jev; he called it "looks like BS": Jev claims to be much faster than asking an LLM to do the same task, but the advantage may only matter for niche cases like high-frequency trading — and it compares against regular LLMs, not diffusion LLMs. Maziyar Panahi added that encoders/GLi-models deserve mention: a DeBERTa classifier in ONNX format runs incredibly fast on CPU.

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