I don’t think Jev will survive. @nvidia and @meta will release open-source Jev competitors within the next 30 days. @OpenAI will add a Jev-like endpoint to their model list in the next 60 days. And the rest of us will fine-tune custom classifiers that crush Jev and are 10x faster. In two years we’ll look back at this flash-in-the-pan and say “remember Jev?”

Jev will probably go down in history as the most thoroughly spanked startup ever — a brutal reminder of how few ways are are to create a competitive moat in software these days. (Hint: if you don’t have proprietary data that clearly distinguishes your offering then watch out.) 1. Launch a service that popularises a novel and valuable way to use LLMs 2. Watch literally everyone clone it almost instantly, in many cases beating it

oh no