The next fight over inference costs
It is a small change on paper and an expensive one in production.
The short version of inference costs is that it works. The longer version involves a lot of undocumented exceptions.
Subscriber story
Continue reading with a subscription
This piece is part of the subscriber archive. Subscribe to the daily brief for full access — one email, no card, cancel any time.
Already a subscriber?
#models#infrastructure#training
More in this section
🔒aiSubscriber
Why small models are winning on-device
Four-bit quantization plus better distillation is making 3B models genuinely useful in production.
🔒aiSubscriber
Synthetic data is hitting a wall nobody wants to name
Model collapse is real, but the more immediate problem is boring: attribution and licensing.
ai
The open-weights licence split is becoming permanent
Two families of licence, two incompatible expectations, and a lot of downstream confusion.