Jon Durbin(@jon_durbin):Remember, the main point here is not even the decentralized training (even if it's what I'd consider a step change). The real magic is in the inference optimizations it enables. (sparse fp4 native compute for routed experts, fixed kv cache for most of the attention, sparse latent for the rest, tiny model weights, etc.) This is just from an unoptimized vllm branch on our model arch, not even really tuned yet. Maybe not an entirely fair comparison need a lot more models to compare against and some nuance and so on, but this is the whole point. Limitless tokens on cheap hardware.

2026.09.11 16:17

Remember, the main point here is not even the decentralized training (even if it's what I'd consider a step change). The real magic is in the inference optimizations it enables. (sparse fp4 native compute for routed experts, fixed kv cache for most of the attention, sparse latent for the rest, tiny model weights, etc.) This is just from an unoptimized vllm branch on our model arch, not even really tuned yet. Maybe not an entirely fair comparison need a lot more models to compare against and some nuance and so on, but this is the whole point. Limitless tokens on cheap hardware.

Jon Durbin@jon_durbin

2026.09.10 17:12

Dashboard is a quick work in progress, but for visibility into a run here ya go! This is around $11/b tokens, insane actually. MFU also insane. The whole thing, pretty legendary, and inference... Using a few nodes from @lium_io also!