Quail: open-source AI-SQL engine hits 1B+ input tokens/min on a single H100
sh_reya · x · 2026-09-27
Researcher shreya, in collaboration with Modal, released Quail, an open-source AI-SQL engine. By planning SQL queries and LLM inference together, it reaches 1B+ input tokens/min on a single H100 for a single query.
The core idea: AI-powered data operators create a new class of inference workload, and Quail "pushes LLM inference closer to the data/query layer" — unlike the Jevons-style shift of decision-making toward the model layer, it co-designs query execution with inference scheduling to massively speed up AI queries over large datasets.
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