Idk why Jev was even hyped in the first place. Mostly by social media people who are the type to write inspirational LinkedIn articles, Medium posts and make longwinded Youtube videos about subjects they don't know or care to know much about.
It's always been obvious that small models with a specific purpose will outplay the larger more general models. It becomes a question of "do I want to be able to toss _anything_ at this frontier model, have it handle it all but pay the price" or "do I want to toss _specific things_ at this micro model, have it handle it but not be flexible".
It's the same with agentic RAG/search, things are moving towards much smaller search-specific models rather than tossing RAG chunks at a large frontier LLM. It's like how I can ask a multimodal frontier model to identify bounding boxes for objects in an image...but if I want to do that faster/cheaper/at 60fps then I should be using yolo or similar.
It's always been obvious that small models with a specific purpose will outplay the larger more general models. It becomes a question of "do I want to be able to toss _anything_ at this frontier model, have it handle it all but pay the price" or "do I want to toss _specific things_ at this micro model, have it handle it but not be flexible".
It's the same with agentic RAG/search, things are moving towards much smaller search-specific models rather than tossing RAG chunks at a large frontier LLM. It's like how I can ask a multimodal frontier model to identify bounding boxes for objects in an image...but if I want to do that faster/cheaper/at 60fps then I should be using yolo or similar.