DeepSeek pushes single-token KV cache under 1KB—at brutal infra cost
kalomaze · x · 2026-09-11
Researcher kalomaze notes DeepSeek continues its efficiency trend, somehow pushing single-token KV cache storage costs into the sub-kilobyte regime—which he calls the most agonizing, gut-wrenching, misery-inducing possible training and serving infrastructure regime.
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