@rajistics: Most classification problems do not need a chat model writing JSON one token at a time. Jev takes us back to the encoder side of the Transformer family. State plus typed questions go in, and probabilities come out. No autoregressive output loop. Jev is closed source, but Laya shows one plausible open-weight design using ModernBERT. This approach can classify text, detect prompt injection, triage tickets, and support smaller domain-specific models.