Intelligence Snacks 73 - Model Explosion

Pete and Andy unpack a week where AI models seemed to multiply overnight: Anthropic updates, OpenAI’s cheaper models, Meta’s Muse, Grokbot, and the more interesting arrival of Jev.
The big question is whether we need ever-bigger frontier models, or whether the real unlock is cheaper, faster, more specialised intelligence that can be sprinkled through workflows.
The centre of the episode is Jev: a “system one” decision model built for fast classification, confidence scoring, routing and prioritisation.
Pete and Andy explore why that matters for business processes, GraphRAG, tool calling…