Laya vs. Jev: When Your AI Application Needs a Decision Model, Not a Chatbot

by Robi Kumar Tomar — LLMs are powerful, but not every software task needs generated text. Explore Laya and Jev, compare their architectural trade-offs, and…

Cubed·Oct 24

Laya Compaction: What Should Stay in an Agent’s Context?

by Alessio Bussolari — These tips grew out of my conversations with AI: asking questions, exploring alternatives, and learning along the way. I’m sharing what…

AI Tools in Practice·Oct 18

Decision Models Explained: Jev, Clef, Laya, Kai & the Rise of System One AI

by Zusss — Your brain doesn’t call System 2 to pull your hand off a hot iron. So why do AI agents call a reasoning model for every tiny decision?

Medium·Oct 16

How I Fine-Tuned Laya to Solve an Important Problem in Scientometrics — With Claude Code

by Jeet Mukherjee — Step-by-step instructions for fine-tuning ConvAI’s 33ms “System 1” decision model on your own yes/no task, plus what happened when I pointed it at Institution Name Disambiguation and got 99.2%...

Towards AI·Oct 13

System One Models: What I Learned Exploring Jev and Laya

by Veera Rohith Reddy Mudiam — Not every AI decision needs an LLM. What I learned exploring a new class of fast, cheap decision models.

Medium·Oct 11

“JEV and LAYA” The AIs That Talk Less and Do More Explained to Complete Beginners

by Heteshkumar — You’ve probably used AI to write an email, explain a difficult concept, or plan a holiday. But what if AI didn’t need to write a single…

Medium·Oct 10

I Fine-Tuned a Local Model to Match a Hosted Model.

by Cameron Jagoe — I Fine-Tuned a Local Model to Match a Hosted Model. Then My Experiment Stopped Replicating. (Laya Experiment Part 2)Fine-tuned on the same 11,010 human-reviewed pairs my production auditors learned...

Towards AI·Oct 22

How to Connect Laya to Claude Code in 5 Minutes (No API Key, No Cloud)

by Itai Spector — Laya is the open source take on TypeSafe’s Jev: a small model that answers questions with probabilities instead of words, and it runs on…

Medium·Oct 17

Forget Jev. Meet Laya, the Free, Transparent Decision Model That Runs Locally, 7x Faster

by Itai Spector — Laya does what TypeSafe’s Jev does: typed decisions with calibrated probabilities, no text generation. It’s open source, runs on your own…

Medium·Oct 13

Train your own decision model: the decision tier is now a 40-minute fine-tune

by Ashish Kumar — On 28 September Unsloth began serving Laya, an open decision model, at a Jev-compatible endpoint on a CPU. On 7 October it shipped…

Medium·Oct 12

Fine-Tuning Laya, a System-One Model, to Plan Multi-Agent Work

by Prashant Raj — Can a 421M-parameter model learn to plan multi-agent workflows locally? Building, fine-tuning, and evaluating Laya.

Medium·Oct 11

Fine-Tuning Laya Locally: From Labelled Examples to a Checkpoint

by Alessio Bussolari — These tips grew out of my conversations with AI: asking questions, exploring alternatives, and learning along the way. I’m sharing what…

AI Tools in Practice·Oct 18

Laya Router: Choosing a Model Before the Work

by Alessio Bussolari — These tips grew out of my conversations with AI: asking questions, exploring alternatives, and learning along the way. I’m sharing what…

AI Tools in Practice·Oct 17

Nimble v3 vs Laya: Who Publishes Their Calibration

OrcaRouter·Oct 13

This 421M AI Model Can’t Write a Single Sentence. That’s Exactly Why It Beats Giants.

by Anup Karanjkar — System One AI models like Laya, JEV and Clef answer with calibrated odds, not text. Can't hallucinate isn't can't be wrong. Here's why.

Medium·Oct 11

Jev or Laya? Neither: Why I fine-tuned ModernBERT on the Edge for Rural Healthcare AI

by Suyash Baoney — The recent debate around ‘System 1’ decision models (Jev vs. Laya) has exposed an undeniable truth: autoregressive generative LLMs are far…

Medium·Oct 10

Microsoft-Decision-1 vs Laya: Languages or Context?

OrcaRouter·Oct 10