I Got 28 TPS Out of Free Kaggle GPUs. Here's What It Took.
I want to be upfront about something: this whole project runs on free Kaggle T4 notebooks, an AWS EC2 t3.micro relay that costs almost nothing, and…
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Speculative Decoding and MTP: Why Guessing Is Free
I saw "MTP round-trip" on a checklist for a Megatron conversion pipeline and had no idea what it meant. Two acronyms, one hyphen, apparently importa…
what a turn actually costs me
Four models read every frame Harness sees. CLIP embeds it. PaddleOCR pulls the text. A dense-text model embeds that. A reranker sorts results when y…
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
local-llm: A Field Report on Running SOTA Models on Your Own Hardware
The most useful thing in jamesob/local-llm is not the GPU shopping list. It is the fifteen or so BIOS settings, kernel flags, and PCIe hacks that st…
You're Not Paying for Compute. You're Paying for Memory Bandwidth
TL;DR— Inference cost conversations obsess over FLOPs and token prices, but the real constraint on LLM serving is memory bandwidth— specifically the…
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.
Two labs race to make AI write whole paragraphs at once instead of word by word
Diffusion text models — which draft an entire block of text at once and then iteratively refine it, rather than generating one token at a time left…
KV Cache Is Eating Your VRAM — Here's How to Estimate It Before You Run Out
Every LLM inference engineer hits this wall eventually. You deployed a model, it works in testing, then production traffic arrives. Suddenly your 80…
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
One of the hottest topics in LLM inference acceleration right now is Speculative Decoding . DSpark claims 60%–85% single-user speedup at the same th…
Extract Structured JSON from Messy Text with Telnyx AI Inference
Messy text is everywhere: support tickets, lead forms, emails, contracts, incident reports, call notes, Slack messages. The annoying part is that th…
96% of cuBLAS, no `unsafe`: what cuTile Rust proves
GPU programming usually asks Rust developers to surrender the borrow checker at the launch boundary: references collapse into raw pointers, and alia…
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
Sipp: a local-first runtime for Hybrid AI Applications
Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to contribute to llama.cpp’s WebGPU backend, helping push it from isolated operator support toward a…
Can You Tell When an LLM API Swaps in a Cheaper Model?
If you call an open-weight model behind an API, whether that is your own box, a hosted endpoint, or a router, you are trusting that the thing answer…
How to Build a Secure Homelab for LLM Inference
We’ve treated local AI deployments as experimental toys for too long. The moment a homelab becomes a dependency for work, the security posture must…
Speculative decoding: when and why it actually speeds up inference
Speculative decoding: when and why it actually speeds up inference Your chat endpoint serves 200 requests per second. The model is a 70B Llama 3 fin…
Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options
Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.