In 5 years, we are going to get frontier intelligence at 5000+ tokens/sec. What would this mean for a world faster than you can think or consume?
Summary
The article speculates that in five years, frontier AI intelligence could achieve speeds over 5000 tokens per second, faster than human thought, and discusses current AI speeds and video generation capabilities.
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