100x faster than generative LLMs • Runs on laptops & cloud CPUs • Global #1 on JevBench When you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, it generates words one token at a time, like a person typing out an essay. That takes 2 to 5 seconds and burns expensive GPU compute. That is great for writing a story, but it is painfully slow and expensive for simple decisions: - "Did the AI make up this answer, or is it actually in the PDF?" - "Should this customer's message go to billing, shipping, or technical support?" - "Does the revenue bar chart support this financial claim?" - "Did the student get the math problem right according to the answer key?" Psychologist Daniel Kahneman described human thinking…
Open-weight model · Text classification
gevva-e2b-multimodal
by David Burhans davidburhans/gevva-e2b-multimodal
gevva-e2b-multimodal is an open-weight model for text classification from David Burhans, released under Apache License 2.0. It has 5.1B parameters and a 131,072-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 12.3 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index.
100x faster than generative LLMs • Runs on laptops & cloud CPUs • Global #1 on JevBench When you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, it generates words one token at a time, like a person typing out an essay.
Runs On
What it takes to serve gevva-e2b-multimodal (5.1B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.
| Precision | Weights | Memory needed | Cheapest setup | Per hour | Also fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-bit | 10.2 GB | 12.3 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
| 8-bit | 5.1 GB | 6.1 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
| 4-bit | 2.6 GB | 3.1 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 1, 2026.
gevva-e2b-multimodal on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision
Model Card
By David Burhans, published under apache-2.0, revision eed439eaf3fe.
100x faster than generative LLMs • Runs on laptops & cloud CPUs • Global #1 on JevBench When you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, it generates words one token at a time, like a person typing out an essay. That takes 2 to 5 seconds and burns expensive GPU compute. That is great for writing a story, but it is painfully slow and expensive for simple decisions: - "Did the AI make up this answer, or is it actually in the PDF?" - "Should this customer's message go to billing, shipping, or technical support?" - "Does the revenue bar chart support this financial claim?" - "Did the student get the math problem right according to the answer key?" Psychologist Daniel Kahneman described human thinking…
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Gevva e2b: The Instant AI Decision Engine
15-millisecond fact checking, hallucination detection, tool routing & chart verification.
100x faster than generative LLMs • Runs on laptops & cloud CPUs • Global #1 on JevBench
What is Gevva? (The 30-Second Explainer)
When you ask ChatGPT or Claude a question, it generates words one token at a time, like a person typing out an essay. That takes 2 to 5 seconds and burns expensive GPU compute.
That is great for writing a story, but it is painfully slow and expensive for simple decisions: - "Did the AI make up this answer, or is it actually in the PDF?" - "Should this customer's message go to billing, shipping, or technical support?" - "Does the revenue bar chart support this financial claim?" - "Did the student get the math problem right according to the answer key?"
The Solution: An Instant "Reflex Engine" for AI
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman described human thinking in two modes: - System 1 (Fast & Intuitive): The brain's instant reflex — recognizing a friend's face or dodging a ball in 15 milliseconds. - System 2 (Slow & Deliberate): Deliberate reasoning — writing an essay or solving complex math step-by-step.
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SYSTEM 1: GEVVA │ │ SYSTEM 2: CHATGPT / CLAUDE │
│ Makes instant decisions in 15 ms │ vs │ Generates text token-by-token │
│ 95% cheaper compute cost │ │ Takes 2,000 - 5,000 milliseconds │
│ Confident, calibrated decisions │ │ Expensive GPU server bills │
│ Best for: Fact-checks, routing, │ │ Best for: Creative writing, long │
│ guardrails, and grading │ │ essays, and coding from scratch │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘ └────────────────────────────────────────┘
Gevva is the AI's instant reflex. Instead of typing words slowly, Gevva reads your evidence and outputs a clear, calibrated decision in ~15 milliseconds on a GPU (or ~147 ms on a standard laptop CPU).
Quickstart in 30 Seconds
pip install gevva
import gevva
# Load model directly from Hugging Face (runs on GPU or standard CPU)
model = gevva.load("davidburhans/gevva-e2b")
# Check if a claim is True, False (Hallucination), or Unproven
document = "The company reported $4.2B in revenue for 2025, a 15% increase over 2024."
claim = "Company revenue exceeded four billion dollars."
probs = model.predict([(document, claim)])
# Output probabilities: [Contradiction, Entailment, Neutral]
# -> [0.01, 0.98, 0.01] ==> 98% Confidence: VERIFIED TRUE!
What Can Gevva Do for You?
1. Catch AI Hallucinations in RAG & Documents
Traditional search pipelines waste time asking slow LLMs whether an answer is hallucinated. Gevva checks claims against up to 128,000 tokens of source text in a single forward pass:
retrieved_doc = "Patients taking Medication X showed improved sleep with no reported nausea."
ai_answer = "Medication X causes severe nausea in elderly patients."
probs = model.predict([(retrieved_doc, ai_answer)])[0]
if probs[0] > 0.80:
print(" Alert: AI Hallucination detected! Answer contradicts the source document.")
2. Smart Action & Tool Routing (No Prompt Tuning)
When an agent receives a message, what tool should it call next? Gevva evaluates all actions simultaneously:
tools = [
"process_refund: Refund payment to customer bank account",
"track_package: Query live shipping milestones and courier GPS",
"reset_password: Send authentication link to user email",
"search_help_docs: Search FAQs and documentation"
]
user_message = "I ordered this two weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived at my house!"
best_action_idx, scores = model.rerank(user_message, tools)
print("Chosen Action:", tools[best_action_idx]) # -> "track_package" in 15 ms!
3. Inspect Financial Charts, Tables & Images
Need to check if a claim matches a real chart or invoice? Gevva's multimodal engine inspects images directly:
from PIL import Image
vision_engine = gevva.load("davidburhans/gevva-e2b-multimodal")
chart = Image.open("quarterly_sales.png")
result = vision_engine.predict(
pairs=[("A financial bar chart is shown.", "Q3 sales were higher than Q4.")],
images=[chart]
)
print("Verdict:", result)
4. Instant Homework & AI Grader
Grade an answer against a reference answer key without human grading fatigue:
grade = model.grade(
question="What is the capital of Australia?",
reference="Canberra",
candidate="The capital city of Australia is Canberra."
)
print(f"Passed: {grade.is_correct} (Confidence: {grade.score*100:.1f}%)")
# -> Passed: True (Confidence: 96.4%)
Runs Everywhere (No GPU Required!)
You don't need an expensive datacenter GPU. Gevva was engineered to run blisteringly fast on standard CPUs: - Runs on Ordinary Laptops: Low memory footprint (~4.8 GB RAM). - Fast Startup: Loads in 1.2 seconds. - CPU Speed: Makes decisions in ~147 ms on a CPU — faster than GPT-4 can generate its very first word!
| Hardware | Latency per Decision | What You Can Run |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GPU (RTX 5090) | 14–16 ms | High-throughput enterprise API clusters |
| Standard Cloud CPU / MacBook | 147 ms | Local agents, serverless functions, low-cost microservices |
Leaderboard & Accuracy
On the official JevBench benchmark evaluating System 1 decision-making across hundreds of real-world scenarios:
| Rank | Model | Parameters | Decision Latency | Composite Score | Open Source? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Gevva e2b (Ours) |
2.3B | 14.3 ms | 77.54 |
Yes (Apache 2.0) |
| #2 | OpenJEV (AlexWortega) | 2.6B | 18.2 ms | 76.01 |
Yes |
| #3 | TypeSafe AI Jev | 2.5B | 15.0 ms | 75.40 |
No (Closed API) |
| #4 | Convai Laya | 2.2B | 18.4 ms | 73.80 |
Proprietary |
| #5 | ModernCE Large NLI | 1.8B | 16.1 ms | 72.10 |
Yes |
Model Variants
| Variant | Repository | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Flagship (Text Reasoning) | davidburhans/gevva-e2b |
Pure text: RAG hallucination checks, tool routing, document verification. |
| Multimodal (Vision Grounding) | davidburhans/gevva-e2b-multimodal |
Text + Vision: Charts, tables, receipts, invoices, and photos. |
Authors & Co-Authorship
- Dave Burhans — Lead Author & Architecture
- Gemini 3.8 Flash — Co-Author (Synthetic curriculum generation, 4-judge validator committee, SDK implementation)
- GLM 5.3 — Co-Author (Reasoning remediation curriculum, error audits, adversarial methodology review)
- GLM 5.3 Flash — Co-Author (Synthetic calibration testing, loss formulation, decision metrics)
- Gevva Contributors
License & Terms
Gevva e2b is released under the Apache 2.0 License. Underlying foundation weights inherit Google's Gemma Terms of Use.
@software{gevva2026,
author = {Burhans, Dave and {Gemini 3.8 Flash} and {GLM 5.3} and {GLM 5.3 Flash} and Contributors},
title = {Gevva: State-of-the-Art Multimodal 128K System 1 Decision Engine},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face / GitHub},
url = {https://github.com/davidburhans/gevva}
}
Configuration
- Architecture
- Gemma4ForSequenceClassification
- Context length (tokens)
- 131,072
- Layers
- 35
- Hidden size
- 1,536
- Feed-forward size
- 6,144
- Attention heads
- 8
- Key/value heads
- 1
- Head dimension
- 256
- Vocabulary size
- 262,144
- Sliding window (tokens)
- 512
- Model type
- gemma4
Identity and Version
- Repository
- davidburhans/gevva-e2b-multimodal
- Publisher
- David Burhans
- Task
- Text classification
- Modality
- Text
- Library
- transformers
- Parameters
- 5.1B parameters
- Languages
- en, fr, es, de, zh, ar, hi, ru
- Revision
- eed439eaf3fefb4cdd0614ea5763b9c4c86409a0
- First published
- 2026-09-24
- Last updated
- 2026-09-25
Files and Weights
11 files, 10.2 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 10.2 GB in pt, safetensors.
Every file
| File | Type | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| head_weights.pt | Weights | 14.3 KB | f7d36a2e9418 |
| model.safetensors | Weights | 10.2 GB | 74ba35ef8d17 |
| calibration.json | Configuration | 444 B | — |
| config.json | Configuration | 5.5 KB | — |
| eval_report.json | Configuration | 518 B | — |
| qat_config.json | Configuration | 170 B | — |
| README.md | Documentation | 10.1 KB | — |
| chat_template.jinja | Other | 18.6 KB | — |
| .gitattributes | Repository | 1.6 KB | — |
| tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 32.2 MB | cc8d3a0ce364 |
| tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 3.7 KB | — |
License and Download
- License
- apache-2.0
- Access
- Open weights, no gate
- Download size
- 10.2 GB
Released by David Burhans through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.
Built From
- Derived from google/gemma-4-E2B-it
Memory Requirements
| Precision | Weights in memory |
|---|---|
| As published | 10.2 GB |
| 16-bit | 10.2 GB |
| 8-bit | 5.1 GB |
| 4-bit | 2.6 GB |
Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.
Questions About gevva-e2b-multimodal
How much GPU memory does gevva-e2b-multimodal need?
About 12.3 GB at 16-bit and 3.1 GB at 4-bit: the weights (5.1B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.
What is the cheapest GPU to run gevva-e2b-multimodal on?
At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
Can I use gevva-e2b-multimodal commercially?
Yes. gevva-e2b-multimodal is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.
What is gevva-e2b-multimodal's context length?
131,072 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.
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