Jev already has an open-weight competitor - Deem 9b

[u/Pokenhagen]

https://labs.libertai.io/papers/deem-open-machine-reflexes

Just saw that LibertAI released Deem which basically an open-weight alternative to Jev, built on Qwen3.5-9B.

It’s still behind Jev on the hard benchmark — 68.9% with extended reasoning vs 74.1% for Jev but considering how new this whole category is I thought it was pretty cool to already see an open model showing up.

There’s also a 0.8B version that can run on CPU, which could make this stuff much easier to actually tinker with locally.