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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web — TechCrunch
- Key
- fernholz2026amazon
- Authors
- Fernholz, Tim
- Issued
- 2026-10-1
- Type
- article-newspaper
- Container
- TechCrunch
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Claims
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Researchers produced dozens of similar models in the weeks after Jev's debut. Almeida said the imitators underestimate how hard it is to make such models capable, and that he did not yet see real competition.
"the difficulty of making the models actually smart"
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Amazon Web Services released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model inspired by Jev and built on the language model Qwen3.5-2B, in the same week OpenAI announced a similar offering. It began as a homebrew project by Amazon distinguished engineer Marc Brooker.
"they make a perfect decider for a workflow step"
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