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We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers

67 points emschwartz 1 hour ago 26 comments

benaduggan 48 minutes ago | parent

So they held back a bunch of features because they knew they had basically no moat, and now they're trickling out a bit more functionality to try to convince people they are better than others and move fast? And using Apple advert slogans to show how cool they are?

aryabakh 45 minutes ago | parent

With the speed they're adding features shows you're correct.

ranger_danger 37 minutes ago | parent

Which others?

benaduggan 29 minutes ago | parent

There are several public benchmarks for decision models where they don't top every single one. https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models/all

I guess their cheeky "Warning: AI Benchmarks, don't trust them" is their way out of that one.

yipinwong 47 minutes ago | parent

Sounds like an incremental change with context size change, new "box" type, and composable images.

As it's minor change did not expect much, but having a higher context helps for sure. I will own the errors for passing bigger context.

therealpygon 38 minutes ago | parent

Well, they do need to try to compete with SubQ’s longer context and image processing that has been coming out ahead in benchmarks, plus the thousand self-hosted options that now exist.

nico 45 minutes ago | parent

In case you need something a bit more lightweight, or want privacy. You can get amazing (better in a lot of cases) accuracy and performance from local models that run and train on CPU: https://jeffyclassify.com/blog/when-llms-fail-at-classificat...

aryabakh 21 minutes ago | parent

I used the model and it was good enough for email classification. I was wondering if I'm supposed to be doing multiple runs for topic classification with grouping related topics i.e. if its sport,economy or tech related news and then another run for soccer,basketball or something else or batching them like the News article topic classification example in a single run.

matt3210 42 minutes ago | parent

How does JEV prevent distillation?

nico 40 minutes ago | parent

I don't think they can. But they probably monitor usage and test for patterns to then block/ban accounts

himata4113 8 minutes ago | parent

They don't. Generally we already have trillions tokens worth of classifier datasets so there's no reason to create synthetic data that will be worse than the data it was trained on.

tyushk 42 minutes ago | parent

Cool to see another model with support for bounding boxes on images. Really wish to see segmentation in a future release; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is mandatory in my use case as it's the best model for semantic image segmentation in my experience.

moonu 32 minutes ago | parent

Curious why you use Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite instead of SAM/Moondream? Any specific workflows where it outperforms?

tyushk 3 minutes ago | parent

Using it as part of an agentic CAD workflow, where the model needs to be able to selectively segment from parts of a user's image as it works on a project. Using OpenSCAD so being a general purpose model is very useful to me.

hexasquid 41 minutes ago | parent

I'm curious what people are building with these models

ASalazarMX 38 minutes ago | parent

Judging from the tilte, I guess dreams.

nazgul17 29 minutes ago | parent

Automatic tagging of images is what I'm doing with it. I'm using a modified Gemma model, which ingests images (and audio, for that matter).

LewisOrton 28 minutes ago | parent

it's actually more usefull than it looks. it is not much useful on its own but it can play a big role in a complex workflow or custom harness.

i used luna 5.6 as the ranker/filter to remove useless items from upstream rag(mixing embedding, regex etc) and it did a good job but took 5-10 seconds each time. now less than 1 second and no observable precision loss. hope it helps

Rudybega 19 minutes ago | parent

I use it as a drop in replacement for LLMs I had previously doing filtering and classification in a pipeline. It's loads cheaper and faster with roughly equivalent performance on my own internal tests. The confidence scores (which are also reasonably well calibrated on my data) are a super nice bonus.

vanuatu 10 minutes ago | parent

^ Same here. so much faster and cheaper than using an LLM to return structured data

ygouzerh 4 minutes ago | parent

I found an example online, I cannot find the github again, but it was interesting: an instant dynamic generation of React component, you type what you want to build using natural language, and it directly add one to the page.

If I remember well, in the background, it does the multi-choice question: "What is the component requested ? --> Calendar, Slider, ..."

jjcm 34 minutes ago | parent

> Warning: AI benchmarks. Please don't trust them

I like that they're being up front about this. Benchmarks are a metric that can be gamed. They give you an approximate estimate of where things land, but you really need to test for your use case.

jofzar 33 minutes ago | parent

Interesting way to release this, I'm not sure how to say this, but this has a real "enterprise"/old school taste to it verses how all the other models/AI companies are releasing things.

Very refreshing.

kypro 8 minutes ago | parent

I'm aware this is an unproductive comment, but why are all their releases so cringe? It's like they're written by a Reddit mod or something...

> For the builders AND dreamers

> Enter the danger zone at your own risk.

> Size does matter, apparently

> We’re trying something new out here: we’re going to treat you guys like adults

> Lots of people love to ask what kind of sci-fi we’re releasing next

That said, their docs are great and don't seem to include all the Reddit cringe.

shrinks99 1 minute ago | parent

I walked away with _mostly_ the opposite impression. They have a specific tone of voice! I think that's good.

I've yet to see any company match the copy writing skills of Valve though.