OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-12.17.11-PM-1.png?resize=1200,988

OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast, cheap intelligence that recently made TypeSafe, a startup founded by a former researcher at the frontier lab, a $7.6 billion company.

TypeSafe’s Jev model created a category for deep learning models that act as super classifiers: Given a set of options, they can quickly make choices and offer a confidence rating in their decision. Software developers quickly found that these decision or System One models could replace LLMs in a variety of workflows, operating more quickly and a at dramatically lower cost.

Nikunj Handa, the product lead for OpenAI’s APIs, told TechCrunch that his colleagues saw Jev and said “wow, we we have like a million use cases for this.” Handa’s team sprinted to offer their own version: Rather than building a specifically calibrated decision model, the team took ChatGPT...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to techcrunch.com. To see the full text click HERE