The Fastest AI Models: Benchmarking Performance
Introduction The speed of human conversations, typically with turnarounds of around 200ms, sets a benchmark for the desired response time of Large Language Models (LLMs). Thefastest.ai is a website that provides reliable measurements of the performance of popular LLMs, helping users understand the latency and throughput of these models. Benchmarking LLMs The site offers a comprehensive suite of benchmarking tools, measuring the Time To First Token (TTFT), Tokens Per Second (TPS), and total response time of various LLMs. These metrics provide insights into the latency and overall speed of the models: TTFT: This measures how quickly a model can process an incoming request and start generating a response. Lower TTFT values indicate lower latency and faster performance. TPS: This metric indicates the rate at which a model produces tokens, or words, in a response. Higher TPS values mean the model can generate text at a faster rate, leading to improved throughput and a quicker overall res...