Jev
“Raised an $870M Series A at $7.5B, led by Andreessen with Sequoia participating”
Source→“Jev usage has quadrupled just since Andreessen actually shook hands on the deal... Jev is super fast and super cheap.”
Source→“TypeSafe AI (dba Jev), an SF-based composable AI startup led by OpenAI vet Diogo Almeida, raised around $870m at a $7.5b valuation. A16z led, joined by insiders DCVC and Sequoia Capital.”
“Many agent decisions have only a few possible outcomes but still use expensive frontier models for simple classification and routing tasks.”
Source→“Jev, launched September 15, returns choices, scores, or probabilities at $0.042 per million input tokens with no output charge.”
Source→“Jev, a fast, low-cost inference-routing company reportedly raising at a $10B valuation after a seed at about $200M.”
Source→“They said they're at a hundred million dollar like kind of revenue pace now.”
Source→“TypeSafe AI's founder Diogo Almeida, who says he spent two years in stealth after co-inventing ChatGPT, trained it for one job...”
Source→“Alex Volkov ran it as a plugin and watched his session fall from nearly 1M tokens to 86K in about a second.”
Source→“Tamara Tran's compaction demo did 3.6M views: score every tool call in a Claude session, drop the irrelevant ones.”
Source→“TypeSafe AI's founder Diogo Almeida, who says he spent two years in stealth after co-inventing ChatGPT, trained it for one job”
Source→“watched his session fall from nearly 1M tokens to 86K in about a second.”
Source→“LangChain shipped official middleware the same week, including the safety-classifier pattern that coding harnesses have kept in their closed-source layers until now.”
Source→“put Jev inside a browser agent that found flights in 7 seconds for $0.0039, picking the next action from a menu rebuilt after every click.”
Source→“up to 200x faster, up to 400x cheaper than comparable LLMs on classification”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.