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SPEAKER_01 said experimental analysis may require many tokens and multiple tool calls or inference threads, causing latency to grow substantially.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“many,”
“many tokens to kind of get to these patterns.”
“not a single tool call. It's not a single inference thread.”
“So then the latency can blow up quite a bit.”Play from 49:32Report a misattribution
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