Brundage: There's still lots of unmet latent demand for faster models
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-01
Miles Brundage, former OpenAI policy lead, argues in a discussion with Herbie Bradley that there remains significant unmet latent demand for model inference speed. Bradley counters that speed isn't everything: even with an infinite budget, if tasks finish faster than you can prompt or effectively use previous outputs, ultrafast models become inefficient. The debate centers on the mismatch between speed demand and human oversight throughput.
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