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Noam Brown says increasing reasoning-model test-time compute eventually creates a latency bottleneck, since users do not want to wait years for a response.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“The problem is that as you push that further and further,”
“you hit a latency bottleneck. You don't want to sit around for three years waiting for a response.”Play from 1:26Report a misattribution
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