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Nobody wants a slow model, which is why labs will not trade inference speed for cheaper memory even though they easily could.

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scaling laws Whether more compute keeps buying more capability, and where the curve now bends -- pre-training, post-training, test-time.

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Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Speed is a feature: waiting makes everything feel complicated

What Dylan Patel actually said

  1. Dylan Patel Founder and chief executive of SemiAnalysis
    They could release claw slow mode and have an increase in tokens per dollar by a significant amount. Um they could probably like reduce the price of Opus 46 by you know 4x 5x and reduce the speed by another by maybe just like 2x like the curve on inference throughput versus speed is there already just on hm um and yet they don't um because no one actually wants to use a slow model

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