Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model

Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model Or trying to, at least. My day job has been primarily in AI for three years now, but I’d be the first to admit that’s been almost entirely in one corner of AI: infrastructure, safety, and tools for AI agents. That work has brought me in contact with a lot of the AI science (and I’d dabbled there over the previous decade), but I’m super far from the day-to-day of work like model building. I wanted to catch up a little (after all you have to know what you’re talking about), and the last couple weeks provided a perfect opportunity. On the 15th of this month, the TypeSafe AI folks announced Jev, a kind of general purpose calibrated classifier. You can see this as something exciting or not, but it sure has captured the world’s attention. And mine. I was particularly interested in the calibration, combined with low latency and the ability to answer questions in parallel, it’s a great building block for the more workflowy end of the spectrum of…