The trick: Narrowed Superlative
The fastest AI on Earth just launched.
It is also the 38th smartest.
Celeris-1: fastest general-purpose AI, delivering 2,000+ tokens per second
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TRUE, BUT
#38 brain
Number one for speed. Number 38 for brains. The launch page mentions exactly one of these.
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The trick has a name
We call it Narrowed Superlative: first or fastest, inside a quietly narrowed category. You'll see it again. Learn to spot it →
Receipts
- Supports celeris.ai:
The fastest LLM on Earth ... Frontier level intelligence, 15x faster ... Response time p50 158 ms
- Context artificialanalysis.ai:
1,897.7 output tokens per second, ranking #1 / 80 among all models evaluated ... scores 12 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it at #38 / 80
- Refutes cerebras.ai:
over 2,000 tokens per second for Scout - more than 30 times faster than closed models like ChatGPT or Anthropic
- Context prnewswire.com:
Generates 1,664 tokens per second ... 75.9% on MMLU-Pro (versus Mercury 2's 63.7%) ... near-GPT-5 intelligence
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