The Inference Ceiling: Managing The Marginal Costs Of AI

The unbridled hype of the mid-2020s is finally colliding with the structural and infrastructure limits of 2026.

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

Taalas has launched an AI accelerator that puts the entire AI model into silicon, delivering 1-2 orders of magnitude greater ...

Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance

Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...
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Vultr Launches Cloud Inference to Simplify Model Deployment and Automatically Scale AI Applications Globally

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference. This new serverless platform ...
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Cerebras Systems upgrades its inference service with record performance for Meta’s largest LLM model

Cerebras Systems Inc., an ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup and rival chipmaker to Nvidia Corp., said today that its cloud-based AI large language model inference service can run ...

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

These speed gains are substantial. At 256K context lengths, Qwen 3.5 decodes 19 times faster than Qwen3-Max and 7.2 times faster than Qwen 3's 235B-A22B model.
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Chip designer Taalas bets on hard-wired AI chips

Backed by $169 million, the startup is building chips that embed AI models directly into silicon to speed inference ...
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Red Hat Unlocks Generative AI for Any Model and Any Accelerator Across the Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat AI Inference Server

Red Hat AI Inference Server, powered by vLLM and enhanced with Neural Magic technologies, delivers faster, higher-performing and more cost-efficient AI inference across the hybrid cloud BOSTON – RED ...
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OpenAI launched its best new AI model in September. It already has challengers, one from China and another from Google.

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