ChatJimmy
Hacker ApprovedRanked 7 of 26 AI assistants by recommenders
Recommended as a startling demo of near-instant LLM inference on Taalas's dedicated model chip, though it runs an old small Llama model that gives inaccurate, hallucinated answers.
Recommended as a startling demo of near-instant LLM inference on Taalas's dedicated model chip, though it runs an old small Llama model that gives inaccurate, hallucinated answers.
124 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 100
- criticize it
- 24
- approval share
- 81%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 100 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Near-instant, extremely fast responses
“Compaction, busting the cache, and other issues like that will lose significance when you're running at 15k tokens per second like chatjimmy.”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” “It's eye opening: generated an AVX-512 optimized Mersenne Twister in C in 0.076s, 13,706 tok/s.”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip” “I remember looking at this earlier this year and being that fast just feels fake.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model” - Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s”
- Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python”
- Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”
- Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”
- Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”
- Comment from 29 May 2026 in “3000 tokens/sec LLM playground”
- Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion”
- Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears”
- Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”
- Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?”
- Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX”
- Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6”
Shows promise of model-on-silicon
“things like chatjimmy, I sometimes wonder if we might have built in chips with specialized models”
Comment from 30 Jun 2026 in “LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active” “it's running against Taalas' "hardcore" silicon model, ie a dedicated, ASIC-like chip.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters” “Millisecond inference even on much older models will change the whole game.”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “GPT‑5.5 Instant” - Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI”
- Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python”
- Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”
Fast and cheap beats smart
“There is an emergent space for super-fast-models esp finetuned or guardrailed to solve very specific latency sensitive tasks.”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Mercury 2.5” “this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown” “a lot of LLM use cases don't need smart, they need fast and cheap”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)” Speed boosts reasoning and agents
“Compaction, busting the cache, and other issues like that will lose significance when you're running at 15k tokens per second like chatjimmy.”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” “it's incredible. Both reasoning and tool use generation scale with TPS”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” “this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Inaccurate answers and hallucinations
“That's really impressive from a speed point of view but it hallucinates like it's on drugs.”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “How fast is N tokens per second really?” “Is super fast but also super inaccurate, I would say not even gpt-3 levels.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)” “Its a cool demo, but its gpt-3.5 level stupid, or worse.”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” - Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”
- Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices”
- Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 is now live”
- Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects”
- Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”
- Comment 49206340 on Hacker News
Old, small Llama 3.1 8B
“this leads to super-fast speeds but the model they're using is an old small Llama model so the quality is pretty bad”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6” “It is to be fair running a pretty trash model, a quantized Llama 3.1 8B from ~18 months ago”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Writing code is cheap now” “it's based on a 2+ year old tiny model. It's very much an alpha proof of concept”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast” - Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon”
- Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6”
Outdated knowledge cutoff
“It's great at knowledge and basic stuff but the output is complete junk for anything concerning new facts”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” “training material is stopped at around July 2022, a little too outdated”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon” Limited proof-of-concept features
“the combination of small context window, no tool calls and just small model, made me understand, that it's not going to work”
Comment from 2 Jun 2026 in “Chipotlai Max” “Chat jimmy launched in february, and nothing has come of it, not even GA let alone improvements with intelligence.”
Comment from 25 Oct 2026 in “Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models” “it's based on a 2+ year old tiny model. It's very much an alpha proof of concept”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast” - Comment 47087251 on Hacker News
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| ChatJimmyThis page | 100 | 24 | 81% | 9 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 133 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's several orders of magnitude faster at inference than anything else”
“Chat jimmy launched in february, and nothing has come of it, not even GA let alone improvements with intelligence.”
“"speed of thought" is wildly underselling how fast chatjimmy is”
“There is an emergent space for super-fast-models esp finetuned or guardrailed to solve very specific latency sensitive tasks.”
“I missed the fact that it had responded because I was still hitting the enter key”
“it's based on a 2+ year old tiny model. It's very much an alpha proof of concept”
“Compaction, busting the cache, and other issues like that will lose significance when you're running at 15k tokens per second like chatjimmy.”
“I just tested out chatjimmy and a bit and it did some misinterpretation of my prompts”
“Its a cool demo, but its gpt-3.5 level stupid, or worse.”
“it's incredible. Both reasoning and tool use generation scale with TPS”
“training material is stopped at around July 2022, a little too outdated”
“This is the coolest LLM thing I've seen since the original ChatGPT announcement”
“It's great at knowledge and basic stuff but the output is complete junk for anything concerning new facts”
“the model used for Chat Jimmy is not very smart, but the world where it is smart is very interesting”
“Answers like 8Bish model it appears, but instant response”
“it is fast, but on the once good llama3.1-8b but now pretty useless”
“Hallucinates on the first question I ask, as 90% of these models that try to take shortcuts.”
“things like chatjimmy, I sometimes wonder if we might have built in chips with specialized models”
“this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens”
“I remember looking at this earlier this year and being that fast just feels fake.”
“It's eye opening: generated an AVX-512 optimized Mersenne Twister in C in 0.076s, 13,706 tok/s.”
“Wow that incredibly fast. I like this outcome more than centralized datacenters.”
“the combination of small context window, no tool calls and just small model, made me understand, that it's not going to work”
“it is fast but unfortunately its accuracy is not great”
“chatjimmy.ai can do that and output 17000 tokens/sec on cheaper silicon”
“That's really impressive from a speed point of view but it hallucinates like it's on drugs.”
“It's unbelievably (1000x) fast, but not flexible of course”
“Millisecond inference even on much older models will change the whole game.”
“it's running against Taalas' "hardcore" silicon model, ie a dedicated, ASIC-like chip.”
“this leads to super-fast speeds but the model they're using is an old small Llama model so the quality is pretty bad”
“It's quite impressive what purpose build inference can/will do”
“which worked well and was so fast every time I've hit it this past week”
“It is to be fair running a pretty trash model, a quantized Llama 3.1 8B from ~18 months ago”
“That thing is near instantaneous, it's all the proof you need that this is real.”
“This think takes under 30ms to process a small query - about 10 times faster.”
“I asked it some basic questions and it fudged it like it was chatgpt 1.0”
“a lot of LLM use cases don't need smart, they need fast and cheap”
“Is super fast but also super inaccurate, I would say not even gpt-3 levels.”
“even simple queries I tried got very inaccurate answers”
“it's impressive and feels like a completely different technology”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.