I think you're right about Laya (and confirmation bias).
But like you said, at the end of the day he's just a rando.
He's not asking for $40m, not saying "I made ChatGPT, but i hate it, so I built the next big thing". Not claiming to co-invent RLHF.
Laya is just noise. Jev's bullshit affects me today - I see people injecting it into the codebases where it has no place.
> He's not asking for $40m
Just how to "make fkn $500k ARR fast?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674396
too much LI/Xitter influencer consumption
That's really funny, nice find.
To be fair, he's just asking how to get customers. And the post is 2 days before Jev's launch date? I don't think he's trying to sell Laya there (though he probably will at this point).
There's something to be gleaned from the sum of their output across GitHub, arxiv, reddit, and HN (didn't delve LI, I hear it's a hot mess)
If anything, that makes Jev look even less impressive. They may just be hiding their similar quality outputs behind good PR.
Laya is nowhere close to Jev in the 3rd party benchmarks I've seen, rather Laya is among the lowest scoring of the scores of Jev-alikes
example ranking shared in comment on this HN post
https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models