Agentic Inference Benchmarks in 2026: Agents per Megawatt
July 30, 2026
MLPerf and Artificial Analysis both shipped an agentic inference benchmark in 2026. What agents per megawatt measures, which hardware leads, and the caveats.
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LLM Fallback Routing: Survive an AI Model Recall (2026)
June 17, 2026
When the US government pulled Claude Fable 5 offline, single-provider apps broke. Build a multi-provider LLM fallback chain that survives a model recall.
SpaceX IPO: The AI Infrastructure Play Behind SPCX (2026)
June 12, 2026
SpaceX begins trading as SPCX after a record $75B IPO. How the xAI merger, Colossus, and billion-dollar compute deals built an AI infrastructure giant.
LiteLLM Proxy Production Tutorial: LLM Gateway in 2026
May 19, 2026
Deploy LiteLLM Proxy v1.85 in production: Docker Compose, Postgres, virtual keys with budgets, fallback routing, and cost tracking for Claude, GPT, Gemini.
Google's $40B Anthropic Bet: Cash, Compute, and Claude
April 26, 2026
Google commits up to $40B to Anthropic — $10B now at $350B valuation plus 5GW of TPU capacity over five years. Big Tech's latest AI infrastructure bet.
Google TPU 8t and TPU 8i: The Agentic-Era Chip Split
April 23, 2026
Google unveiled TPU 8t (Sunfish) and TPU 8i (Zebrafish) at Cloud Next 2026 — eighth-gen chips splitting AI training from inference at 2.7x price-perf.
Amazon-Anthropic $100B Deal: 5GW of AWS Trainium Compute
April 22, 2026
Amazon invests up to $25 billion in Anthropic as Anthropic commits $100 billion to AWS over 10 years for up to 5 GW of Trainium2 and Trainium3 compute.
Meta-Broadcom MTIA Deal: 1GW of 2nm Custom AI Silicon
April 21, 2026
Meta and Broadcom extended their MTIA chip partnership through 2029, starting with over 1 GW of custom silicon on the industry's first 2nm AI accelerator.
Cerebras IPO 2026: The $56.4B Nvidia Challenger
April 17, 2026
Cerebras priced its Nasdaq IPO at $185/share, valuing the company at $56.4B, backed by a $10B+ OpenAI contract. Inside the wafer-scale chip 57x bigger than Nvidia's H100.
The $700B AI Infrastructure Race: Who Wins in 2026?
March 30, 2026
Big Tech is spending $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026. Here is what Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are building and whether it will pay off.
GPU Cloud TCO 2026: Hidden Fees, Egress Costs, Real Spend
March 28, 2026
Beyond hourly rates — true GPU cloud TCO in 2026: egress, storage, commitment discounts, and what AI training and inference actually cost per month.
GPU Cloud Comparison 2026: RunPod, Vast.ai & Thunder vs AWS
March 28, 2026
Specialized GPU clouds cost 60–85% less than AWS. RunPod, Vast.ai, Thunder Compute, and Northflank benchmarked for AI training and inference in 2026.
The Custom AI Chip Race 2026: Big Tech vs Nvidia
March 25, 2026
The custom AI chip race in 2026 — Meta MTIA, Google TPU, Amazon Trainium, Microsoft Maia vs. Nvidia. Strategy, cost, supply, and workload fit for each.
Mastering ML Model Training: From Costs to Code
March 22, 2026
ML model training from costs to code: frontier costs (Gemini Ultra $191M), compute doubling every 6 months, plus runnable training patterns for smaller teams.
AI Rate Limiting: Fairness, Cost & Scale
February 2, 2026
AI rate limiting in 2026: adaptive, context-aware limits across prompts, tokens, users, and cost. The patterns that balance fairness and runaway spend.
Model Serving Patterns: From Batch to Real-Time Inference
January 28, 2026
Model serving patterns: batch, online, streaming, edge. Latency, cost, and throughput trade-offs for each — plus the tools (BentoML, vLLM, TGI) to ship with.
Mastering Model Monitoring Systems: Keeping Your ML Models Honest
January 22, 2026
ML model monitoring: detect data drift, concept drift, and fairness regressions before they hit users. Tools, dashboards, and alerts that catch early.
Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Corners
December 14, 2025
Cut LLM costs without cutting corners: quantization, distillation, caching, batching, router choice, and infrastructure moves that actually preserve quality.
SQLite Today: The Unsung Hero Powering Modern Apps
December 11, 2025
SQLite in 2026, beyond embedded: edge compute, AI inference caching, local-first apps on Turso and Cloudflare D1. Why it's the database quietly powering 2026.
The Future of LLMs and Fine‑Tuning: From Foundation Models to Custom Intelligence
December 4, 2025
The future of LLMs and fine-tuning: LoRA, adapters, RAG, synthetic data, and the modular techniques replacing full retraining in 2026 production workflows.
How to MLOps: Building Reliable, Scalable Machine Learning Systems
November 29, 2025
A hands-on, deeply detailed guide to mastering MLOps—from model versioning and CI/CD to monitoring, scaling, and real-world production practices.