{"slug": "gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer", "title": "Gigatoken: Fastest Tokenizer", "summary": "Gigatoken, a new tokenizer implementation, claims to be the world's fastest, achieving speeds ~500-1000x faster than HuggingFace and ~100x faster than OpenAI's tiktoken on most machines, even though those baselines are multithreaded Rust implementations.", "body_md": "Introducing the world's fastest tokenizer implementation, Gigatoken!\nGigatoken is ~500-1000x faster than HuggingFace, and ~100x faster than OpenAI's tiktoken for most tokenizer definitions on most machines.\nThese baselines are already multithreaded Rust implementations! 🧵", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/marcelroed/status/2079642154960564352", "published_at": "2026-07-22 00:13:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 00:21:59.407514+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Gigatoken", "HuggingFace", "OpenAI", "tiktoken"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gigatoken-fastest-tokenizer.jsonld"}}