The Inference Stack in 2026.
A field note on token economics, runtime systems, model architecture, and the stack changes behind public LLM API price compression.
Topic
Distributed Systems
The coordination, reliability, state, and runtime behavior of systems spread across machines or services.
Why It Matters Here
Modern AI and finance systems are distributed systems before they are product surfaces.
Related Topics
Programs
Linked Artifacts
Speculative Decoding
A decoding-time acceleration technique that drafts tokens with a smaller model and verifies them with a larger model.
Mamba And State-Space Models
A family of sequence models that replace quadratic attention with selective state-space mechanisms.