Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by Etheryte on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:44AM
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It is incredibly fast, on that I agree, but even simple queries I tried got very inaccurate answers. Which makes sense, it's essentially a trade off of how much time you give it to "think", but if it's fast to the point where it has no accuracy, I'm not sure I see the appeal.
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Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by kaashif on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:46AM
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If it's incredibly fast at a 2022 state of the art level of accuracy, then surely it's only a matter of time until it's incredibly fast at a 2026 level of accuracy.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by PrimaryExplorer on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:51AM
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yeah this is mindblowing speed. imagine this with opus 4.6 or gpt 5.2. probably coming soon
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by scotty79 on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:16AM
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I'd be happy if they can run GLM 5 like that. It's amazing at coding.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by Gud on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:53AM
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Why do you assume this?
I can produce total jibberish even faster, doesn’t mean I produce Einstein level thought if I slow down
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by andy12_ on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:33AM
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Not what he said.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by Closi on Friday February 20, 2026 @12:54PM
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Better models already exist, this is just proving you can dramatically increase inference speeds / reduce inference costs.
It isn't about model capability - it's about inference hardware. Same smarts, faster.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by scotty79 on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:15AM
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I think it might be pretty good for translation. Especially when fed with small chunks of the content at a time so it doesn't lose track on longer texts.
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by andrewdea on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:27AM
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the hardwired model is Llama 3.1 8B, which is a lightweight model from two years ago. Unlike other models, it doesn't use "reasoning:" the time between question and answer is spent predicting the next tokens. It doesn't run faster because it uses less time to "think," It runs faster because its weights are hardwired into the chip rather than loaded from memory. A larger model running on a larger hardwired chip would run about as fast and get far more accurate results.
That's what this proof of concept shows
Re:The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
by Etheryte on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:52AM
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I see, that's very cool, that's the context I was missing, thanks a lot for explaining.