Taalas bakes Llama 3.1 8B into custom silicon, hitting 15,000 tokens per second
npew · x · 2026-09-04
Taalas has burned Llama 3.1 8B directly into custom silicon, demonstrating generation at 15,000 tokens per second. Former OpenAI engineer Nathan Peter shared the demo and speculated about near-instant, Astra-class intelligence running on future phone chips. A notable datapoint for inference ASICs.
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