Frontier small models' quadrillions of tokens may soon surpass Opus 5.5
LesaunH · x · 2026-10-17
The author argues that the quadrillions of tokens coming out of frontier companies' small models will soon surpass Opus 5.5's, and sees much of the coming scale in AI capability coming from this massive token throughput.
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