Inference efficiency is now the sole driver of architecture changes, observer notes
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-09-11
An industry observer notes that architectural modifications have become almost entirely inference-informed: designs now optimize for cheap prefill, small KV cache, and friendliness to PD-disaggregated serving, with large-batch prefill expected to yield good utilization. The lens explains why recent new architectures are shaped by inference-stack needs rather than training-side novelty.
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