# The Frontier Throughput Race Moves to Custom Inference Silicon

An unverified report that GPT-5.6 Sol will run at 750 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware illustrates how serving speed, not just model quality, is becoming a competitive factor.

- Published: 2026-06-27T10:45:08.127Z
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A report shared on Telegram by AI Post claims GPT-5.6 Sol will reach up to 750 tokens per second when served on Cerebras hardware, roughly fifteen times the throughput most GPT-5.5 priority requests see today. OpenAI has not confirmed the f…

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