Reasoning costs plummet as startup Talaas matches System 1 speeds — where's the alpha?
Square-Listen-7989 · reddit · 2026-10-25
The author observes reasoning costs heading sharply downward: chatjimmy.ai runs on an inference engine built by startup Talaas, with speeds matching System 1 models. The open question: if reasoning and classification costs keep collapsing, where does the competitive alpha actually come from?
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