Of course it costs less and is more accurate. There have been several years of language model training, distillation, and reinforcement learning to get there. None of this is thanks to the Jev team.

There already was a market for this, that's why people continued developing them in house for their own purposes. I trained people for this. It was just silently used at various companies without the loud marketing fanfare. The fact that other groups are able to replicate and beat Jev within days should tell you something. That's not "the new normal". That's an example of a product built on marketing hype alone.