This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and...

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and offers five guidelines for selecting draft length and draft mechanism across the Pareto frontier. For a discussion of how model design choices impact both throughput and interactivity without sacrificing accuracy, see AI Model Co…

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The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently...

The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently size GPU resources for inference workloads and optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? With a dizzying mix of latency targets, model choices, quirky traffic patterns, and budget constraints, it’s easy to feel lost in the weeds…

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NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the...

NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the most versatile machine ever built, delivering high throughput and interactivity across the widest range of AI workloads—from small to large models, both open and closed. Groq 3 LPX, when paired with Vera Rubin NVL72, extends the platform’s…

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As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because...

As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because attention now dominates that cost, how it is designed—not just how it is implemented—increasingly determines a model’s inference performance. Shaping model architecture around how GPUs execute it is the premise of AI model co-design.

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Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving...

Every byte moved has a cost. As model checkpoints grow to hundreds of gigabytes or even a terabyte, that cost adds up quickly. To make things even worse, moving these model weights around the cluster is extremely common. For instance, a cold start may pull weights from remote storage into GPU memory; autoscaling and rolling updates must populate each new replica; and RL post-training continuously…

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AI performance comes down to three dimensions:  Accuracy: How well the model reasons and produces outputs Throughput: How many tokens per second a...

AI performance comes down to three dimensions: Deployments must balance all three: High accuracy is wasted if responses are slow, and raw throughput means little if each user’s experience is laggy. Practical systems therefore optimize accuracy, throughput, and interactivity together. This post focuses on throughput and interactivity, and how model-design choices shape both without…

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AI has transformed how organizations operate, driving unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. However, AI adoption can be impeded by concerns...

AI has transformed how organizations operate, driving unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. However, AI adoption can be impeded by concerns surrounding data privacy, sovereignty and how to secure data while it is in use, or during inference and engagement with AI models. NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) was engineered to be a secure and performant solution for the era of agentic…

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Generative AI workloads are rapidly outgrowing the memory and compute budget of single GPUs. For inference developers building media generation pipelines, the...

Generative AI workloads are rapidly outgrowing the memory and compute budget of single GPUs. For inference developers building media generation pipelines, the challenge is scaling across multiple devices without sacrificing the critical optimizations—like kernel fusions, memory planning, and quantization—that NVIDIA TensorRT delivers for production deployments. Multi-device inference support…

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Power can account for 40% of the operating expenses (OpEx) to run an AI factory. Each watt can be spent on overhead, data ingestion, training, or generating...

Power can account for 40% of the operating expenses (OpEx) to run an AI factory. Each watt can be spent on overhead, data ingestion, training, or generating tokens for customers. And most sites are capped at a fixed power level provided by a regional provider. Under these conditions, performance per watt becomes a key efficiency metric that directly translates to token costs.

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As AI systems move from single-turn interactions to coordinated multiagent workflows, low-latency inference becomes increasingly important. Autoregressive LLMs...

As AI systems move from single-turn interactions to coordinated multiagent workflows, low-latency inference becomes increasingly important. Autoregressive LLMs generate tokens sequentially, which can limit GPU utilization and constrain throughput in latency-sensitive serving scenarios. Speculative decoding helps mitigate this bottleneck by using a lightweight model to draft future tokens…

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AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how...

AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how inference systems perform under these conditions. Artificial Analysis AgentPerf (AA-AgentPerf) offers the industry’s first multi-vendor open benchmarks profiling trajectories that are representative of real-world AI agent coding tasks.

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This post is the third of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Post-Training...

This post is the third of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Post-Training Quantization Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer. Converting a quantized checkpoint into an NVIDIA TensorRT engine bridges the gap between model optimization and production deployment, enabling faster inference, higher throughput…

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Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the financial trading landscape by enabling sophisticated analysis of vast amounts of unstructured data to...

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the financial trading landscape by enabling sophisticated analysis of vast amounts of unstructured data to generate actionable trading insights. These advanced AI systems can process financial news, social media sentiment, earnings reports, and market data to predict stock price movements and automate investment strategies with unprecedented…

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This post is the second of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints...

This post is the second of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints into High-Performance Inference Engines with NVIDIA TensorRT. Model quantization is an effective method to reduce VRAM usage and improve inference performance on consumer devices such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.

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Coding agents are starting to write production code at scale. Stripe’s agents generate 1,300+ PRs per week. Ramp attributes 30% of merged PRs to agents....

Coding agents are starting to write production code at scale. Stripe’s agents generate 1,300+ PRs per week. Ramp attributes 30% of merged PRs to agents. Spotify reports 650+ agent-generated PRs per month. Tools like Claude Code and Codex make hundreds of API calls per coding session, each carrying the full conversation history. Behind every one of these workflows is an inference stack under…

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