753B model thinks, 4B model writes: latent-space handoff matches frontier reasoning at 20x speed
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-03
mostikai, a team of 12 PhDs who spent four months building, claims first place on the ARC-AGI leaderboard and argues the wrong question is "will open models catch up?" — the right one is why a frontier model should generate your answer at all.
Their protocol lets models communicate in latent space: a 753B frontier model "thinks," and its hidden states flow directly into a 4B model running on your own infrastructure, which "writes" the answer. No text passes between the models, and neither is fine-tuned. The result: performance near the big model at roughly 20x the speed.
The idea effectively decouples reasoning (the expensive part) from generation (the cheap part), using the small model as a latent-space decoder. Details are scarce since the competition is still running, and the claimed results await independent verification.
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