This article is Part 13 of 15 in the Generative AI in Depth series. Running a single LLM query in isolation is straightforward. Running hundreds or thousands of queries simultaneously — with u...

This article is Part 12 of 15 in the Generative AI in Depth series. Context length has become one of the most visible axes of LLM competition. Frontier models now commonly support context wind...

This article is Part 11 of 15 in the Generative AI in Depth series. The largest and most capable LLMs are not dense transformers — they are Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. Confirmed MoE archi...

This article is Part 10 of 15 in the Generative AI in Depth series. Standard LLM decoding generates one token per forward pass. Speculative decoding generates multiple. Not by breaking the mat...

This article is Part 9 of 15 in the Generative AI in Depth series. LLM inference is fast — but not because GPUs are good at computing. It’s because GPUs have enormous memory bandwidth and fram...