SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox

Frontier labs' public calls to "pace" AI development arrived days before shipping their most powerful models, fueling moat-protection suspicions.

• Jev launches structured-output model: TypeSafe AI's Jev (founded by ex-ChatGPT engineers) returns scored, type-safe machine-to-machine responses instead of chat, sparking an unofficial 27B-parameter open-weight clone (OpenJev) within two weeks.
• Meta ships Muse assistant: Meta's personal AI assistant plus a companion 'Muse Charm' keychain device claims to book restaurants far faster than Claude, but runs on Meta's trust-heavy data/ad history.

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