$40M-backed Jev got an open-source API clone within three days
Nickabot · reddit · 2026-09-22
Typesafe's Jev — a "system 1" decision model from ex-OpenAI founder Diogo Almeida, two years in stealth with a $40M seed — was matched by an open-source Apache 2.0 clone (laya, 13k+ stars) just three days after early access. The author argues the idea is essentially a calibrated classifier with clean API packaging, and the clone is a fine-tuned modernbert; caveats include poor out-of-box calibration requiring temperature refitting.
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