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Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jaggederest on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:36PM (#49113868)
https://taalas.com/ has done it already for a wildly obsolete model. 14000 tokens per second.

https://chatjimmy.ai/ is their interactive. Tiny context, very dumb, but absurdly fast. Imagine this as a tool call for claude code for trivial changes - the tool call from the harness takes longer than the execution.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by christophilus on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:12PM (#49115130)
Wow. This is absolutely wild. I didn't expect that.

If we get to anywhere near this speed for the equivalent of the current models... I don't even know what to think about that future.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by apitman on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:51PM (#49116320)
Speed is the metric I'm currently most interested in. The models are smart enough.

Once speed significantly increases I think we're going to see some interesting downstream effects. The three things I currently spend the most time waiting on are LLM API requests, Rust compile times, and nix derivations. As AI latency approaches zero I think we're going to start taking a hard look at whether slow-compiling languages are adding enough value over Golang, Typescript, or even dynamic languages to be worth the slowdown.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by blovescoffee on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:15PM (#49117037)
what do you mean "if"? of course we will, and the models will be smarter as well
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jaggederest on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:26PM (#49117618)
Yeah. A model smarter than Fable by, say, 50 human IQ point equivalents, running in some kind of autoregressive process continously on whatever goals you put into the loop, on baked silicon, would be maybe my low end for the potential in the relatively near future.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ElijahLynn on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:14PM (#49114379)
Wow! You weren't kidding,

I just tried it too and 14,098 tokens in .05 seconds, I barely blinked and it was done. There was no typing at all appearing on the screen. It just showed up.

https://chatjimmy.ai/chats/01dc66a4-4b1b-4dea-bb5f-926855e37...

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by WalterGR on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:06PM (#49115065)
That link isn't bringing up your chat, FYI. It just shows the default new chat state.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ElijahLynn on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:03PM (#49118215)
Sure enough. I just tested it in incognito, and it is blank. I thought it would work because I wasn't logged in to Jimmy AI. It still shows for me though in my regular session so they must just have a cookie that makes it stick.

Here's a copy and paste prompt if somebody wants to just test it real quick to see what I saw:

Write a story about the fastest monkey who ever lived, his name is Jimmy and he is an AI superbot monkey that is part cyborg primate. He can travel through time and is psychic.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by iamjackg on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:40PM (#49113917)
Holy crap, I was not prepared for how fast it responded. I just wrote "Just wanted to see how fast you are! Can you write me a quick story about a tiger who lives inside a block of cheese the size of a house?"

I pressed Enter, and the response was instant.

> Generated in 0.037s • 14,205 tok/s

This is unbelievable.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jcul on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:49PM (#49114047)
It's crazy. Are they doing any precomputing as you type, I wonder if you paste a block of text is it the same speed.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by nerdsniper on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:07PM (#49114278)
I pasted and instantly hit enter on this prompt: "I generated a filter set using REW v5.31.3 using real-world sweep tone measurements from the room I'm listening in . How can I use it as my MacOS output equalizer so that my spotify music is adjusted for this room and speakers"

and it gave a very reasonable answer in non-perceptible time.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jaggederest on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:27PM (#49117630)
That's a hell of a prompt, you should make a post about what you're doing maybe, because I want that for myself.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by weiliddat on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:18AM (#49120420)
idk if you're still actually looking for a solution (I got nerdsniped heh), but I found a seamless way to have it locked into the speakers + room, instead of a specific source/software, is using an iLoud subwoofer that routes to any speaker setup and has room correction + EQ that lives on the sub.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by EYE999 on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:46AM (#49120588)
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Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by EYE999 on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:48AM (#49120607)
...or here...

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Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by throwuxiytayq on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:08PM (#49114291)
No, it really does take ~0.03s to generate the answer. Try your browser's developer tools and watch the requests.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by HDBaseT on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:01PM (#49116928)
Isn't it crazy that we can send a message, across the world near instantaneously and have a coherent reply, generated by a computer, sent back to your screen, in under 500ms in most circumstances.

I find myself getting caught up in the sheer speed of modern computing and networking. The fact I can play an online game with 10 other people is just insane.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jaggederest on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:05PM (#49116950)
I got into Rust development via LLM last year, and being able to do things budgeted in nanoseconds is a heady feeling indeed. Real time video and audio analysis? Totally doable, plenty of time budget. 16.6ms is a long time, it turns out.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by Cort3z on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:07PM (#49116975)
The magic is in the fact that they essentially have an ASIC llm device. There is no other trickery. The problem they will face is that it is actually locked in silicon, so upgrading models will be difficult, and likely require new hardware each time.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ch4s3 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:03PM (#49117867)
At some point I imagine you’d add a software layer on top that holds more current training and can be called as needed trading off for slower responses. There’s already work out there splitting models across networks. You could have the base on silicon, some stuff in memory on the machine, and another frontier tool in the cloud.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by jaggederest on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:29PM (#49118027)
Taalas actually already support LoRA, basically doing exactly what you say.

The other thing that I think is really interesting about all of this, is that LLMs are already perforce behind the times with their knowledge cutoff, so adding an additional ~3 months for bake into silicon isn't such a huge deal, I think, for the ~10x more efficient and faster you get.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ch4s3 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:27PM (#49118661)
Yeah, really a fascinating time in computing. Once these chips start to become more common I'll be curious how people find ways to use them. One can imagine a world where really simple inference is available on dirt cheap chips found in toys and other low cost consumer electronics.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by theshrike79 on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:12AM (#49119982)
There are already studies proving that a "stupid" model with a good harness + tool calling will outperform a "smart" model.

Things like this give me hope for a system that can be fully local and private, but also with the ability to be almost infinitely extendable with tools.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ch4s3 on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:59AM (#49155215)
Can you point me to something to read about this?
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by antman on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:39AM (#49119066)
Is the size of the ASIC limiting factor or can they infinitely tensor parallelize? If thats possible then it would make it only a matter of economy of scale, there are good enough models already for people to invest in that kind of platform
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by dyauspitr on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:03PM (#49118213)
It’s crazy that you asked the very question whose answer spawned the sub thread, within the sub thread.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:52PM (#49114093)
I'd like to imagine the things that can be done with this speed and the current frontier models.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by throwup238 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:18PM (#49115207)
Fully interactive games where you can talk to every NPC by text or voice and have an LLM drive the story (with your own meta prompts to guide it, if you so wish). Maybe even have them generate assets on the fly too.

I’m still trying to figure out coding agents. I can’t even begin to imagine the things it would enable. Even the most mundane ideas like LLMs-in-HiFreq-trading have huge implications.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by nly on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:29PM (#49116063)
0.03 seconds is an eternity in high frequency trading

You need to be 4 orders of magnitude faster at least

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ElijahLynn on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:16PM (#49114404)
Truth, it feels like we're in the dial-up age of LLMs right now. And this Jimmy AI is fiber.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by Dig1t on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:10PM (#49114314)
Seriously, if Fable or even Opus was this fast that would be a real game changer.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by reducesuffering on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:41PM (#49115473)
RSI will be models better than Fable running faster than this, you won't even need a human in the loop to figure out what to do. The high level goal will be accomplished better than the human in an instant
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by HDThoreaun on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:46PM (#49114016)
For what its worth the frontier lab models can surely be a lot faster if they wanted them to be but theyre supply constrained so theyre doing stuff like multi tenancy. Since you cant self host them no one outside the labs really knows speed as a solo tenant
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by ericd on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:47PM (#49115557)
You can kind of get a sense by running these things at home - I'm currently running Laguna. One interesting thing is that per stream doesn't actually slow down that much with multiple concurrents, because the bottleneck remains the memory bandwidth until pretty significant request depths, and then eventually you hit the GPU's limits. It's one of the big forces that pushes for centralization in this stuff, the fixed costs to run one are huge, the marginal costs of additional tenants, relatively small.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by baal80spam on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:42PM (#49115484)
Just wow, I made a similar request. Result: Generated in 0.042s • 14,201 tok/s

This is crazy.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by kooi on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:47PM (#49115548)
"Stochastic gradient descent algorithm in Haskel"

"LMS algorithm in bash"

Just barfed it up lol.

Amazing.

Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by apitman on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:52PM (#49116337)
See Cerebras and Groq as well.
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by zahrevsky on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:00PM (#49118508)
hugged?
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by antman on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:34AM (#49119043)
Answers like 8Bish model it appears, but instant response
Re:Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 by herzigma on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:25AM (#49122222)
Wow! Responded essentially instantaneously to my prompt:

"I need a short, 4000 word essay on the the difference between star wars and Star Trek universes from the perspective of graduate level scientific work."