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Some attention mechanisms are less bandwidth-intensive but more FLOP-intensive at a given intelligence level.
Walter Goodwin · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“with attention. There are forms of attention that are less bandwidth hungry.”
“They tend to be more flops hungry for a certain level of intelligence.”Play from 30:36Report a misattribution
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