OpenAI's willdepue on Jev: a zero-shot classifier with frontier-level intelligence
willdepue · x · 2026-09-22
Will DePue reflects on the surprising response to Jev: under the hood it's just a classifier, but a zero-shot one powered by frontier-ish intelligence, which he thinks explains the appeal — and why nobody had built it before. He suggests other legacy ML ideas may be worth rescuing with frontier models as the core component.
Related event: OpenAI researcher: Jev's hype shows old ML ideas deserve reviving(3 posts)→
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