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Ranked 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%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 9 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”

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The four most recommended other AI assistants, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

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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”

RecommendsComment from 30 Oct 2026 in “US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears”

“Chat jimmy launched in february, and nothing has come of it, not even GA let alone improvements with intelligence.”

CriticizesComment from 25 Oct 2026 in “Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models”

“"speed of thought" is wildly underselling how fast chatjimmy is”

RecommendsComment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?”

“There is an emergent space for super-fast-models esp finetuned or guardrailed to solve very specific latency sensitive tasks.”

RecommendsComment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Mercury 2.5”

“I missed the fact that it had responded because I was still hitting the enter key”

RecommendsComment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s”

“it's based on a 2+ year old tiny model. It's very much an alpha proof of concept”

MixedComment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast”

“Compaction, busting the cache, and other issues like that will lose significance when you're running at 15k tokens per second like chatjimmy.”

RecommendsComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”

“I just tested out chatjimmy and a bit and it did some misinterpretation of my prompts”

CriticizesComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects”

“Its a cool demo, but its gpt-3.5 level stupid, or worse.”

MixedComment 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”

RecommendsComment from 7 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”

CriticizesComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”

“This is the coolest LLM thing I've seen since the original ChatGPT announcement”

RecommendsComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”

“It's great at knowledge and basic stuff but the output is complete junk for anything concerning new facts”

MixedComment from 6 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”

“the model used for Chat Jimmy is not very smart, but the world where it is smart is very interesting”

MixedComment from 6 Aug 2026 in “AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon”

“Answers like 8Bish model it appears, but instant response”

MixedComment from 31 Jul 2026 in “Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6”

“it is fast, but on the once good llama3.1-8b but now pretty useless”

MixedComment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon”

“Hallucinates on the first question I ask, as 90% of these models that try to take shortcuts.”

CriticizesComment from 16 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 is now live”

“things like chatjimmy, I sometimes wonder if we might have built in chips with specialized models”

RecommendsComment from 30 Jun 2026 in “LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active”

“this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens”

RecommendsComment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown”

“I remember looking at this earlier this year and being that fast just feels fake.”

RecommendsComment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model”

“It's eye opening: generated an AVX-512 optimized Mersenne Twister in C in 0.076s, 13,706 tok/s.”

RecommendsComment from 24 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip”

“Wow that incredibly fast. I like this outcome more than centralized datacenters.”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jun 2026 in “The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python”

“the combination of small context window, no tool calls and just small model, made me understand, that it's not going to work”

CriticizesComment from 2 Jun 2026 in “Chipotlai Max”

“it is fast but unfortunately its accuracy is not great”

MixedComment from 1 Jun 2026 in “1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices”

“chatjimmy.ai can do that and output 17000 tokens/sec on cheaper silicon”

RecommendsComment from 29 May 2026 in “3000 tokens/sec LLM playground”

“That's really impressive from a speed point of view but it hallucinates like it's on drugs.”

MixedComment from 21 May 2026 in “How fast is N tokens per second really?”

“It's unbelievably (1000x) fast, but not flexible of course”

MixedComment from 7 May 2026 in “Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX”

“Millisecond inference even on much older models will change the whole game.”

RecommendsComment from 6 May 2026 in “GPT‑5.5 Instant”

“it's running against Taalas' "hardcore" silicon model, ie a dedicated, ASIC-like chip.”

RecommendsComment from 5 May 2026 in “Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters”

“this leads to super-fast speeds but the model they're using is an old small Llama model so the quality is pretty bad”

MixedComment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6”

“It's quite impressive what purpose build inference can/will do”

RecommendsComment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI”

“which worked well and was so fast every time I've hit it this past week”

RecommendsComment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion”

“It is to be fair running a pretty trash model, a quantized Llama 3.1 8B from ~18 months ago”

MixedComment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Writing code is cheap now”

“That thing is near instantaneous, it's all the proof you need that this is real.”

RecommendsComment from 21 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“This think takes under 30ms to process a small query - about 10 times faster.”

RecommendsComment from 21 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“I asked it some basic questions and it fudged it like it was chatgpt 1.0”

CriticizesComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“a lot of LLM use cases don't need smart, they need fast and cheap”

MixedComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“Is super fast but also super inaccurate, I would say not even gpt-3 levels.”

MixedComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“even simple queries I tried got very inaccurate answers”

MixedComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

“it's impressive and feels like a completely different technology”

RecommendsComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)”

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