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- SStratecheryThe aggregation of AI compute
- MMoney StuffEveryone wants private credit
- PThe Pragmatic EngineerHow seniors use AI tools
- NNot BoringThe case for vertical agents
- Inference costs fell ~40% since Q1 — the curve bent again.
- Two open models now match last year's best closed ones.
- Adoption is racing ahead of eval and safety tooling.
The cost curve bent again — worth re-checking any build-vs-buy assumptions this quarter.
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- TThe Pragmatic Engineer2 weeks agoScaling LLMs
…mixture of experts cuts inference cost.
- BByteByteGo3 weeks agoMoE, explained
…how mixture of experts routing works.
- aarxiv.org1 month agoSparse models at scale
…mixture of experts at scale.
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