The Efficiency Race Is Accelerating Even as Access Tightens

GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras reportedly hits 750 tokens/sec while Google DeepMind claims the top spot on a computer-use benchmark — the labs are optimizing furiously for models most people can't run.

Beneath the access drama, the underlying technical race kept its pace this week. The AI engineering digest from @aidailyprimer flagged two developments worth separating from the noise: OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 tokens per second, and Google DeepMind posted a #1 result for a computer-use agent on the Odysseys benchmark with Gemini 3.5 Flash.

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