Jared Palmer ports Kev to Qwen3.5 for roughly $95 in H100 time
The Cognition VP of Engineering released 0.8B, 4B and 9B models that return typed probabilities through an open, Jev-compatible local API.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: GitHub
Why it matters
Kev turns a newly commercialized model category into open infrastructure developers can run locally. Palmer's roughly $95 Qwen3.5 port also shows how tightly scoped models, rented GPUs and coding agents can compress model development without hiding the benchmark gaps.
Jared Palmer (@jaredpalmer) released a Qwen3.5-based generation of Kev on September 20th, turning the open-source decision-model project into a three-model family that developers can train, inspect and run on their own hardware.…
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