NextBigFuture

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Thinking Machines

A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing issue in large language models (LLMs). Even with greedy decoding bu setting ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four Architectural Opportunities for LLM Inference Hardware (Google)

“Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM Inference On CPUs (Intel)

“Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance and tremendous potential across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models has been challenging due to the ...
Forbes

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I ran this bulky LLM on an SBC cluster, and it's the most unhinged setup I've ever built

My SBC cluster runs bigger models than a single Raspberry Pi, but the trade-offs are brutal ...
Hackaday

TurboQuant: Reducing LLM Memory Usage With Vector Quantization

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are massive vector spaces in which the probabilities of tokens occurring in a specific order is encoded. Billions of ...
VentureBeat

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a ...
TweakTown

Dell PowerEdge XE9712: NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based AI GPU cluster for LLM training, inference

Dell has just unleashed its new PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 AI servers, with 30x faster real-time LLM performance over the H100 AI GPU. Dell Technologies' new AI Factory with NVIDIA sees ...
Digi Times

In-depth: Google TurboQuant cuts LLM memory 6x, resets AI inference cost curve

Google has introduced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces large language model (LLM) memory usage by at least 6x while boosting performance, targeting one of AI's most persistent ...