A 78x Faster Frontier Model, the New Amazing AI Breakthrough

Fast Feedforward Networks ‘Could Be It’

Ignacio de Gregorio
8 min readDec 6, 2023

The darkest secret nobody is telling you about current frontier AI models is that they are painfully slow.

Sure, that doesn’t matter that much in applications like ChatGPT, but it’s a real issue in areas like robotics, and it is still an issue if we want to achieve true mass adoption of these technologies in general.

Now, two researchers at ETH Zurich have presented a new algorithm breakthrough that could put an end to this.

Named Fast Feedforward Networks, they present one of the most elegant innovations I’ve seen, while creating models that are up to 78 times faster than the originals globally, and up to 220 times faster at the layer level.

Beautifully simple, ultra-performant.

But what are they?

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