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Economic Times: the ex-OpenAI researcher behind Jev
The Economic Times profiles Diogo Almeida, who left OpenAI in 2024 and spent about two years developing the idea behind TypeSafe AI. It cites WSJ on the roughly 25% Fortune 500 adoption and a $40 million DCVC raise.
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- The piece profiles Diogo Almeida, the former OpenAI researcher who launched Jev through his startup TypeSafe AI.
- Almeida left OpenAI in 2024 and spent about two years developing the idea behind TypeSafe AI, per the article.
- Citing WSJ: TypeSafe emerged from stealth with Jev's launch and announced a $40 million raise from DCVC.
- Also citing WSJ: Almeida said Jev was used by about 25% of Fortune 500 companies and processed around one trillion tokens per day.
- The piece notes OpenAI's Decisions API arrived September 29, with Databricks unveiling ai_decide the next day.
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Copy reviewed against the published article on 2026-10-17. The profile relies in part on WSJ reporting for the funding, adoption and token figures, which the text attributes to that report rather than independently verifying.
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Diogo Almeida, a former researcher at OpenAI who left in 2024, launched the Jev model, and leads TypeSafe AI, the startup that developed it.
Unlike chatbots that generate text in response to prompts, Jev classifies information into predefined outcomes: a yes-or-no answer, a numerical score, or a choice from a fixed list of options.
Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions, per the article. Rather than generating a sequence of words, the model is designed to make decisions within a defined set of possible answers.
It says TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with Jev's launch and announced that it had raised $40 million in funding from venture capital firm DCVC, according to WSJ's report.
Citing WSJ, it says Almeida reported Jev was already being used by about 25% of Fortune 500 companies and was processing around one trillion tokens per day about a week before that interview.
It notes OpenAI introduced its Decisions API on September 29, letting developers use its Luna model to answer questions from predefined options, and that Databricks unveiled a function called ai_decide the following day.
Traditional chatbots generate natural-language responses that software may need to interpret. The article says a model that returns predefined decisions can reduce that additional processing for repeated, high-volume automation.
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