Yacine doubles down: "a faster model is a smarter model"
yacinelearning · x · 2026-10-01
Replying to his own 90-minute technical discussion of NVIDIA's frontier open model, Yacine adds: "a faster model is a smarter model" slaps so hard.
The line echoes the interview's core thesis — inference speed is itself capability, and gains from latent MoE, aggressive GQA and attention linearization translate directly into a smarter model.
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