Why Jev may threaten frontier labs more than DeepSeek: an API so cheap everyone finds the waste
jobergum · x · 2026-09-24
Jaya Gup argues that if markets took DeepSeek seriously as a threat to frontier labs, they should take Jev-like models far more seriously: it's an API any developer can use on day one with no GPUs or fine-tuning, and at a fraction of a cent per decision everyone is trying it — and discovering how much they were wasting with expensive models. jobergum quips about BertForMultipleChoice.
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