TypeSafe AI, the company behind the non-text AI model Jev, which gained rapid popularity after its launch several weeks ago, has raised $870 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia and existing investor DCVC. The company is now valued at $7.5 billion. The Jev model is based on the Transformer architecture but does not output text; instead, it generates probabilities or "calibrated decisions." It is reportedly significantly faster than large language models (LLMs) and uses fewer tokens, making it particularly suitable for automation tasks.