Taalas Bakes Llama 3.1 into Custom Silicon, Hitting 15,000 Tokens/sec
generativist · x · 2026-08-01
ChatJimmy by Taalas demonstrates a radical approach to AI inference hardware by effectively burning the Llama 3.1 8B model directly into custom silicon.
This method bypasses traditional memory bandwidth bottlenecks, allowing it to achieve staggering speeds of roughly 15,000 tokens per second. Users report that full responses feel like they appear before the keyboard's Return key is even fully released.
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