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JEV retains a language-model backbone that captures substantial linguistic information but changes the model's output space.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“What they're doing is they're basically saying like,”
“I will take advantage of this language model backbone.”
“Like I know it captures a lot of information about language,”
“but I'm going to change the output space of the model.”Play from 20:29Report a misattribution
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