Spellbreakers Ep. 182: Bullish on Jev, the New AI Kid on the Block

After a two-week hiatus (and an accidental Lloyd's of London movie trailer), host Matt Trump devotes his fun Friday-night show to Jev, the AI everyone in tech suddenly cannot stop talking about since it dropped around September 15th. He spent the week learning it so you don't have to, and the verdict is right there in the title: he's mostly bullish. Expect an accessible, tangent-friendly explainer. Jev, he explains, is not another chatbot like Claude or ChatGPT. It is a throwback "classification" model that only answers in multiple choice (yes/no, A/B/C/D), which sounds useless until you realize how fast and how broadly applicable that is, from game characters to real-world decisions. He unpacks the odd name (economist William Stanley Jevons and his paradox about efficiency driving demand up, not down), the startup behind it, and what it all means for jobs, investing, and a rapidly shifting world. Playful, curious, and genuinely informative.