Karpathy: Jev is an under-invested point on the LLM Pareto curve — single-token, low-latency frontier-ish intelligence
karpathy · x · 2026-09-22
Karpathy says the surprise hit Jev sits on the LLM Pareto-optimal curve in a regime of no thinking, single-token, low-latency acceptable intelligence — a regime with large revealed latent demand that was under-invested as the industry raced toward higher intelligence. He calls it a zero-shot classifier with frontier-ish intelligence and wonders which other old ML ideas are worth rescuing with modern models.
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