2026-09-22 · news · launch

Laya: the open-source answer to Jev hit #1 on Hugging Face in 48 hours

Jev's Google Trends reading fell from +59,400% to +3,750% in two days, but the topic did not leave - it moved to its open-source clone. Laya answers typed questions (choice, score, noul) over any state in one non-autoregressive forward pass and returns probabilities instead of text, so there is no string-generation surface to hallucinate on. Three checkpoints (421M English, 322M multilingual over 100+ languages, one named laya-typed-decisions), Apache-2.0, ~33 ms on a T4. The mechanism worth recording is not the speed: it is that a closed API became a weekend replication target. Hugging Face's CEO called it the #1 trending model on the platform; the benchmark numbers saying it beats Jev are the author's own, and AINews had already flagged the counter-claims - RLCD asserted without justification, and confidence that is entropy-based rather than calibrated.