Time To First Token

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Srinivas: Perplexity maintains the fastest time-to-first-token despite performing live web searches
“We focus on speed, time to first token on app or web, like we're still the fastest despite doing search.”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 23:21 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
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Colvin: Major AI lab cut time-to-first-token 20% upgrading to Pydantic v2
“I can't say which one, but one of the big foundational model companies, when they upgraded from Pydantic v one to v two, their number one internal metric of performance is time to first token That went down by 20%.”
Samuel Colvin Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 6:07 Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire

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