Jev has become the fastest-adopted AI model ever—at least by some measures.
Data published on Thursday by Vercel reveals that within two weeks of its launch, the buzzy decision model was being used by 35% of paid teams, achieving nearly double the reach of the second most popular model, Sonnet 5.5. According to Vercel's data, this is the fastest adoption any model has seen in its first two weeks—a major achievement for the model's creators, Typesafe AI.
Released in limited availability on September 15, Jev is designed as a lightweight tool for selecting between a few predetermined outputs. By constraining the output space, the model runs cheaper and faster than alternatives like Sonnet, making it ideal for quickly classifying large quantities of data. This novel approach has generated significant buzz since Jev's release—inspiring competing offerings from OpenAI and Amazon, among others—but until now, there has been little hard data to back up the enthusiasm.
The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter. It's a necessarily limited view—particularly at risk of undercounting major labs like OpenAI and Anthropic that offer their own APIs—but it shows the buzz around Jev really did translate into actual usage. In fact, Vercel was an early adopter of Jev, using it to replace GPT-6 Luna for classifying harmful commands.
The report also shows continuing momentum for open-source models, which now account for more than 70% of the tokens processed through Vercel's gateway and nearly 25% of the total spend.
While open-source models are capturing a larger share of the market, the market itself is also growing fast. Spending on frontier labs has grown ten-fold, even as it accounts for a smaller share of overall spend, lending credence to the idea that frontier models and open-source alternatives may turn out to be complementary rather than competitive.
via TechCrunch AI