Sounds like BS for me. Jev is transformed-based, trained on language/texts, it receives text inputs and output text (json).

Jev is a language model. It doesn't matter if it is not a "smaller LLM" or not LLM by some weird definition.

> output text

according to the people who made Jev, it does NOT output text. it's a closed model, so we can't inspect the internals, but i would just take their word for it.

just because the API responds with JSON text, does not mean that the underlying model is generating JSON text.