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The trick: Narrowed Superlative

The fastest AI on Earth just launched.

It is also the 38th smartest.

Issue 37 August 20264 receipts3 min

Celeris-1: fastest general-purpose AI, delivering 2,000+ tokens per second

Before you read on. Your call?

Number one for speed. Number 38 for brains. The launch page mentions exactly one of these.

#1SPEED
#38INTELLIGENCE
1,664VENDOR'S OWN TOK/S

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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 →

Say this in tomorrow's meeting“Next time a vendor pitches tokens per second, ask: 'And where does it rank on intelligence?' Then watch which leaderboard they change the subject to.”

Receipts

  1. Supports celeris.ai: The fastest LLM on Earth ... Frontier level intelligence, 15x faster ... Response time p50 158 ms
  2. 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
  3. Refutes cerebras.ai: over 2,000 tokens per second for Scout - more than 30 times faster than closed models like ChatGPT or Anthropic
  4. 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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