New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- OpenAI is now testing a new approach, previewing Ultrafast, a new service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that it says can run up to 14 times faster than standard processing. The mode is being introduced first through the OpenAI API and is currently available only to a limited group of customers.

OpenAI says Ultrafast can generate up to 750 output tokens per second. The service is powered by Cerebras as part of the companies' broader work on low-latency AI inference.

The bigger debate is what happens when highly capable AI becomes fast enough to participate directly in time-sensitive business processes.

Until now, enterprises have often had to balance model capability against response time. Smaller or specialized models coul...