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TRUE, BUTNarrowed Superlative

It is also the 38th smartest.

“Celeris-1: fastest general-purpose AI, delivering 2,000+ tokens per second”

Celeris, 5 August 2026

Recorded 7 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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4 receipts: 1 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 2 add context. 3 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimceleris.ai ↗

    The fastest LLM on Earth ... Frontier level intelligence, 15x faster ... Response time p50 158 ms

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  2. 2Contextartificialanalysis.ai ↗

    1,897.7 output tokens per second, ranking #1 / 80 among all models evaluated ... scores 12 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it at #38 / 80

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  3. 3Contradicts the claimcerebras.ai ↗

    over 2,000 tokens per second for Scout - more than 30 times faster than closed models like ChatGPT or Anthropic

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  4. 4Contextprnewswire.com ↗

    Generates 1,664 tokens per second ... 75.9% on MMLU-Pro (versus Mercury 2's 63.7%) ... near-GPT-5 intelligence

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