Inference providers can't survive without DeepSeek-grade KV-cache engineering, argues thread
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-03
A thread argues that low-cost LLM inference depends on DeepSeek's proprietary engineering stack: global KV-cache management, highly stateful load balancing, rack-scale split prefill/decode, and self-operated data centers — implying many inference providers without this infrastructure depth won't make it.
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