Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJeff Dean: belief
12 Feb 2026 Latent Space Owning the AI Pareto Frontier — Jeff Dean
“Some are, you know, our pro scale model and we can distill from that as well into our Flash scale model. So I think, you know, it’s an important set of capabilities to have and also inference time scaling.”
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- Jeff Dean
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- belief
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Latent Space
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…So, Dara asked, so it was the original map was Flash Pro and Ultra. Are you just sitting on Ultra and distilling from that? Is that like the mother load? I mean, we have a lot of different kinds of models. Some are internal ones that are not necessarily meant to be released or served. Some are, you know, our pro scale model and we can distill from that as well into our Flash scale model. So I think, you know, it’s an important set of capabilities to have and also inference time scaling. It can also be a useful thing to improve the capabilities of the model. And yeah, yeah, cool. Yeah. And obviously, I think the economy of Flash is what led to the total dominance. I think the latest number is like 50 trillion tokens. I don’t know. I mean, obviously, it’s changing every day.…
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