Solo dev's after-hours decision model tops open-weights on JevBench, beating commercial rivals
lukaszkaiser · x · 2026-10-18
Developer KinasRemek is building basal-omni, a "system one" decision model akin to Jev / OpenAI's Decisions API, as a solo after-hours project started roughly two weeks ago with self-funded compute.
- On the independent JevBench for system-one models, it ranks #1 among open weights and #2 overall, beating commercial offerings from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Jev itself
- Notable both as a sign that decision-style models are a hot new category, and as a striking indie-dev result
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