[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days

We covered Jev’s launch on Wednesday, and they have completely taken over the timeline, with 36M views of their launch video (by comparison, OpenAI’s Navier Stokes result got 74M views, and Anthropic’s Fable 5 got 57M views) in just two days. Jev was adopted faster than any other model in AI Gateway history. In the first day, @typesafeai reached ~13% of teams, 2x the GPT-5.6 family and 6x Fable 5.1. 10:34 PM · Sep 18, 2026 · 21.3K Views It wasn’t open source1, so it invited tons of speculation and great demos and examples and salty schmidhubers and bad takes, which of course only fed the hype. Here’s a list. The best guesses are ModernBert and Diffusion: Laya: 421M params, ModernBERT-large encoder with two added transformer layers that score user-supplied options, PPO over sequence embeddings to output turn-by-turn conversion trajectories (probabilities from 0.0 to 1.0).salty that he did not get recognition; claims RLCD without justificationconfidence is entropy-based, not calibrated Laya: 421M params, ModernBERT-large encoder with two added transformer layers that score user-supplied options, PPO over sequence embeddings to output turn-by-turn conversion trajectories (probabilities from 0.0 to 1.0). DiffusionGemmaJev: tackling this from a Diffusion model basis. Pretty close on benchmarks DiffusionGemmaJev:…