What’s interesting about the Jev moment isn’t just Jev, it’s the unleashing of distillation / fine tuning outside the frontier-adjacent labs. It’s the sudden explosion of a million Jevs.

If being an “AI Researcher” is a ticket to multimillion dollar salary, AI training talent cannot be contained to a handful of companies. It’ll become more common and diffuse. The old advice of not fine tuning, because it’s hard, goes out the window as that knowledge diffuses through the industry.

A similar thing is happening in search. For a long time labs have trained tailored embedding models. And now companies like SID training their own agentic models that are smaller and faster at search than GPT-5.