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Walter Goodwin views a snappier chatbot as a limited, “faster horses” application of fast inference rather than its most important opportunity.

Unresolved speaker · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026

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“And I think where we see this as especially vital is if you look at where it is that speed really moves the dial today.”
“There is a kind of, there's a version of this which is like a snappier chat bot,”
“but I think this is like, you know, when Henry Ford sort of asked the rhetorical question of what people would have said they wanted and, you know, faster horses rather than a car.”
“The snappier chat bot is kind of the faster horses of kind of fast inference.”
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