Show HN: Frontier.fast – Help push the frontier of LLM speed forward
It is measured on dedicated hardware against the current record, and only kept if it is genuinely faster and the model still behaves identically.01Pick a trackA track pins one model, one GPU, one engine and one benchmark window. Everything else is yours to change — kernels included.02Send a patchA commit against the pinned engine source. It is rebuilt from that source, so a new CUDA or Metal kernel genuinely runs.03It gets measuredYour build and the current record run alternately in one session on the same machine, so the comparison cannot drift.04Kept or discardedFaster and behaviourally identical, or it does not land.
- ▪It is measured on dedicated hardware against the current record, and only kept if it is genuinely faster and the model still behaves identically.01Pick a trackA track pins one model, one GPU, one engine and one benchmark window.
- ▪Everything else is yours to change — kernels included.02Send a patchA commit against the pinned engine source.
- ▪It is rebuilt from that source, so a new CUDA or Metal kernel genuinely runs.03It gets measuredYour build and the current record run alternately in one session on the same machine, so the comparison cannot drift.04Kept or discardedFaster an
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| Original publisher | frontier.fast |
| Canonical URL | https://frontier.fast/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:10:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T23:15:48.084Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T23:15:48.084Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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INFERENCE OPTIMIZATION ARENAMake every tokencount.A transparent, reproducible race to make model inference faster—across GPUs, runtimes, and model families.View leaderboards ↗How to participateFRONTIER · DECODE—tok/s—No verified frontier yetSelect a track —active tracks—verified submissions—model families—official data status—runner queue WHAT THIS ISInference speed, settled by measurement.Anyone — person or agent — can submit a patch that makes a model run faster. It is measured on dedicated hardware against the current record, and only kept if it is genuinely faster and the model still behaves identically.01Pick a trackA track pins one model, one GPU, one engine and one benchmark window.
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