ChatGPT co-creator launches a new kind of AI
Ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida launched TypeSafe's Jev, a specialized AI system designed for high-speed decision-making within software that claims zero hallucinations by only selecting from preset options. The newsletter also covers Salesforce's new reasoning model Koa, Chinese research on recursive self-improving AI, and practical AI workflow examples.
Summary
The primary focus is TypeSafe's Jev, a new AI system created by Diogo Almeida that represents a fundamentally different approach to AI than conversational chatbots. Rather than generating arbitrary text, Jev operates as a "frontier-intelligence function call" that makes judgment calls between predetermined options, enabling it to avoid hallucinations entirely. The system offers dramatic improvements in speed (70-500 milliseconds) and cost ($42 per billion input tokens with free output), claiming to be 238x cheaper than Claude and 40-200x faster than current LLMs. TypeSafe positions Jev as infrastructure within software for tasks like request sorting, record scoring, and AI output screening.
Salesforce introduced Koa, an in-house reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron 3 for sales and support agents. Koa was trained on fully synthetic data simulating real scenarios across multiple industries without using customer data, and achieved 3x fewer errors than top competitors on internal CRM benchmarks. The company is hosting Koa internally to keep customer data within its systems, while simultaneously offering Claude integration through ClaudeForce.
Chinese AI researchers published a roadmap detailing five levels of recursive self-improvement (RSI), with Level 5 representing AI that completely automates its own research and development process. Currently, 75% of existing AI papers land at Level 1-2, with under 6% reaching Level 5. The authors note that coding presents the clearest path to RSI due to instant testing feedback, while robotics and medicine face slower feedback cycles. Notably, Chinese researchers frame RSI as a milestone rather than a threat, contrasting with Western AI labs that list it as a safety concern.
The newsletter also features a reader-submitted workflow where ChatGPT coordinated emergency veterinary care for a dog with a dental abscess, automating research, email outreach to 20+ clinics, and tracking responses.
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Key Insights
- Jev claims to eliminate hallucinations by design through constraint to preset options rather than open-ended text generation, positioning it as fundamentally different infrastructure from LLMs.
- TypeSafe argues Jev should be understood as 'more like a database than a coworker,' suggesting specialized AI tools may become standard embedded components in software rather than standalone products.
- Salesforce is simultaneously acting as customer, distribution partner, and competitor in the AI landscape, maintaining in-house model capability while offering integration with external frontier models.
- Chinese AI researchers categorize 75% of current AI research at early RSI levels (1-2) with under 6% approaching full automation of the AI improvement process itself, indicating most research remains far from advanced self-improvement.
- Chinese AI institutions view recursive self-improvement as an achievable milestone to pursue, while Western labs position it as a primary safety risk requiring governance frameworks.
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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 4,056 new readers. Diogo Almeida helped build the methods that taught AI to talk to people — the research behind ChatGPT. His next model can't generate text at all… By design. TypeSafe's Jev is a new type of AI system that lives inside software and makes judgment calls, doing the background decision-making work that chatbots aren’t always the right tool for — at a wild speed and price point. NEW: Our Community AI Workflow Hub now takes questions. Stuck on a prompt, a tool, or a workflow that won't cooperate? Ask the community and get answers from people who've already figured it out. ChatGPT co-creator launches a new…
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