KV cache can now be shipped over the internet cheaper than recomputing it

AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-07

zainhas highlights an emerging direction: sending a KV cache across the internet can now be faster and cheaper than computing it again. The open-source LMCache project is inviting inference engines to integrate with its fully decoupled, vendor-neutral data layer to boost cache hits — signaling a dedicated transport/compute split in the inference stack for long-context workloads.

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