TechCrunch30 Sept 2026Tim Fernholz

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

The API apparently provides similar functionality toJev, amodel released by TypeSafe AIearlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation.

Developers have been using Jev to augment LLMs and, in doing so, havefoundthat they’re faster and cheaper.It’s not clear how similar Decisions API will be to Jev, since OpenAI released it as a limited preview and, thus far, TechCrunch hasn’t spotted developers running it through its paces. However, there isclearly interest, according to the conversations on X.Decisions API isn’t the only Jev-like API on the internet — other startups are rolling out similar models; OpenAI won’t be the last tech giant to produce one.

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