NextBigFuture

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference by Thinking Machines

A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing issue in large language models (LLMs). Even with greedy decoding bu setting ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM Inference On CPUs (Intel)

“Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance and tremendous potential across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models has been challenging due to the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four Architectural Opportunities for LLM Inference Hardware (Google)

“Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI ...
Forbes

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than ...
InfoQ

GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
SDxCentral

AI inference crisis: Google engineers on why network latency and memory trump compute

Google researchers have warned that large language model (LLM) inference is hitting a wall amid fundamental problems with memory and networking problems, not compute. In a paper authored by ...
Business Wire

Enfabrica Unveils Industry’s First Ethernet-Based AI Memory Fabric System for Efficient Superscaling of LLM Inference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enfabrica Corporation, an industry leader in high-performance networking silicon for artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing, today announced the ...
TweakTown

Dell PowerEdge XE9712: NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based AI GPU cluster for LLM training, inference

Dell has just unleashed its new PowerEdge XE9712 with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 AI servers, with 30x faster real-time LLM performance over the H100 AI GPU. Dell Technologies' new AI Factory with NVIDIA sees ...
InfoWorld

Multi-token prediction technique triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models

With reported 3x speed gains and limited degradation in output quality, the method targets one of the biggest pain points in production AI systems: latency at scale.