I actually explored this for robotics last year, and CLM grew directly out of that work a few months ago. Feel free to check out my earlier post for more details on how CLM could be applied to robotics:
https://x.com/jackyk02/status/2026368947210289660
I wonder when work started on this project, and how the public release of Jev played into their timing.
From a tweet:
https://x.com/jackyk02/status/2102947585208258799?s=20
But of course the repo with the TypeSafe compatible API is new: https://github.com/Contrastive-LM/CLM