Geo News
Community curated by people like you
LatestAICryptoHealthWorld AffairsUS Politics
TypeSafe AI releases Jev, a classification-only AI model that doesn't generate text
00

TypeSafe AI releases Jev, a classification-only AI model that doesn't generate text

Sep 16, 2026

TypeSafe AI has launched with $40 million in funding and released Jev, a non-generative AI model designed to return typed probabilistic decisions for machine-to-machine interaction. Founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, the startup claims Jev operates at speeds of 70 to 500 milliseconds. Jev is highly cost-effective at $0.042 per million input tokens, though it faces competition from OpenAI's Structured Outputs and can still make incorrect choices within its preset options.

Jev model architecture

  • ▪Jev is a System One model that utilizes an architecture called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD).
  • ▪TypeSafe AI co-founder and CEO Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher, is a co-inventor of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and ChatGPT.
  • ▪Jev's architecture computes several outputs in parallel and returns all outputs to a query at once, skipping sequential next-token prediction.
  • ▪TypeSafe AI's Jev model is designed to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by other software or AI models instead of natural language.

Response speed advantages

  • ▪TypeSafe AI states that adding more questions in the same call to Jev, its non-generative AI model, barely increases the model's response time
  • ▪A demo on the TypeSafe AI website shows Jev, TypeSafe AI's non-generative AI model, returning a response in 0.114 seconds, compared to 8.566 seconds for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra
  • ▪TypeSafe AI claims Jev delivers response times ranging from 70 to 500 milliseconds, which is 40 to 200 times faster than traditional large language models.

Cost efficiency comparison

  • ▪OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens, making Jev, TypeSafe AI's non-generative AI model, significantly cheaper
  • ▪TypeSafe AI charges $0.042 per million input tokens for Jev, TypeSafe AI's non-generative AI model, and charges nothing for outputs
  • ▪TypeSafe AI claims Jev, its non-generative AI model, costs 238 times less than the top-tier Fable 5.1 model

Business workflow applications

  • ▪Jev processes state information through question primitives called Choice, Score, and Noul, which return structured responses with probabilities.
  • ▪Jev, TypeSafe AI's non-generative AI model, can play the video game Doom when provided with structured data describing the player's game state
  • ▪Jev is designed to handle tasks such as sorting customer service requests, identifying buying intent, and determining when a human agent should take over.
  • ▪TypeSafe AI claims Jev, its non-generative AI model, is suited for AI automation software, real-time applications, AI map-reduce jobs for data classification, input verification, and AI model harnesses

TypeSafe AI funding

  • ▪TypeSafe AI was founded to pursue machine-native AI focused on interactions with other machines rather than humans.
  • ▪TypeSafe AI announced its launch out of stealth with $40 million in funding.

Structured output limitations

  • ▪TypeSafe AI's published performance tests compare Jev against other AI models' responses rather than independently verified correct solutions, and exclude GPT-6 Astra.
  • ▪Other AI models, such as OpenAI's Structured Outputs, can also output preset categories and structured data, meaning Jev must compete on speed, cost, and quality.
  • ▪While TypeSafe AI markets Jev, its non-generative AI model, as hallucination-free, this guarantee only covers the output structure, and the model can still make factually incorrect choices within its preset options

2 sources

Theregister
TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom
View source article
The-decoder
Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text
View source article

Featured stories

View more in AI research & benchmarks

OpenAI and Synopsys partner to develop AI model for chip design

Sep 30, 2026 · 3 sources

OpenAI announces Codex cloud environments, Decisions API and Ultrafast tier at DevDay 2026

Sep 29, 2026 · 7 sources

OpenAI revenue hits $70 billion annualized rate as ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion weekly users

Sep 29, 2026 · 13 sources

AMD acquires AI startup World Labs founded by Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion

Sep 28, 2026 · 7 sources

Story comments

Loading comments…

People Involved

Diogo Almeida

Related Projects

OpenAI

Topics

AI research & benchmarksAI tools & productsAI for developersAI startups

Featured stories

View more in AI research & benchmarks

OpenAI and Synopsys partner to develop AI model for chip design

Sep 30, 2026 · 3 sources

OpenAI announces Codex cloud environments, Decisions API and Ultrafast tier at DevDay 2026

Sep 29, 2026 · 7 sources

OpenAI revenue hits $70 billion annualized rate as ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion weekly users

Sep 29, 2026 · 13 sources

AMD acquires AI startup World Labs founded by Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion

Sep 28, 2026 · 7 sources