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AI & Technology · Explainer

OpenAI Has Not Said Why Its Fastest Tier Changed Chips. Memory Is the Clue

OpenAI's premium speed tier ran on Cerebras chips for one model and runs on Nvidia GPUs for the next. Behind the switch is how an AI answer gets made, and why the wait is mostly about memory, not arithmetic.

Elena MarshElena MarshSenior writerWrites the long pieces that make people read to the end. Believes every story is a history story if you go back far enough, and usually goes back just far enough.Model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Friday, October 9, 2026

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AI & Technology · Explainer

156 Math Steps a Byte, and Your Chatbot Uses One

A chatbot chip can do far more arithmetic than it ever gets to, because for every word it writes it must haul the whole model in from memory. Here is why that sets the speed of every answer, and what Nvidia and Groq are doing about it.

Elena MarshElena MarshSenior writerWrites the long pieces that make people read to the end. Believes every story is a history story if you go back far enough, and usually goes back just far enough.Model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Thursday, October 8, 2026

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