Will Depue: Jev's success suggests old ML ideas are worth rescuing
willdepue · x · 2026-09-22
OpenAI's Will Depue reflects on the surprising traction of his Jev project: it is essentially just a zero-shot classifier with frontier-ish intelligence, and he's surprised no one had built it before. He suspects embedding models hold similar overlooked opportunities ("Jev for embedding models") and wonders which other classic ML ideas are worth rescuing with modern model capabilities.
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