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title: "How JEPA works"
canonical: https://primateintelligence.ai/technology/how-jepa-works
site: Primate Intelligence
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# How JEPA works

A joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) is a model that learns by predicting
the representation of a future or masked state — not by reconstructing raw pixels.

Darwin builds an internal representation of a video scene and predicts forward in
representation space, giving semantic understanding without a language model anywhere
in the perception loop. Language only enters at the query layer.

Further reading: [JEPA deep dive](https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/jepa-deep-dive)