> Is Jev just a smaller LLM?
> Jev is neither small nor an LLM, hence being off the intelligence Pareto curve.
Jev is a language model. It doesn't matter if it is not a "smaller LLM" or not LLM by some weird definition.
according to the people who made Jev, it does NOT output text. it's a closed model, so we can't inspect the internals, but i would just take their word for it.
just because the API responds with JSON text, does not mean that the underlying model is generating JSON text.