Cost Math for Vector Databases at Scale: Storage, Compute, and Egress
Per-vector cost economics matter at scale. The 2026 numbers for storage, compute, egress, and how to model TCO.
Agentic AI, LLM engineering, and the models behind modern automation — multi-agent systems, LLM evaluation and comparisons, RAG, fine-tuning, AI infrastructure, security, and production AI engineering.
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Per-vector cost economics matter at scale. The 2026 numbers for storage, compute, egress, and how to model TCO.
Per-FLOP and per-token cost trends across NVIDIA H200/B200, AMD MI325X, and Google TPU v6 in 2026 — and what the curve says about 2027.
When custom CUDA via Triton beats stock PyTorch ops in 2026 — the patterns, the tooling, and what production teams have shipped.
AI training is hitting grid limits in 2026. The siting battles, the SMR experiments, and how power constraints are reshaping AI capex.
How production AI agents actually decide in 2026 — from cheap heuristics to Bayesian inference to utility-based scoring, and where each one wins.
DeepSeek V4 anchors a thriving Chinese open-model ecosystem. Qwen, Kimi, Yi, GLM — what each one does and how the ecosystem competes.
When an AI agent is wrong on a high-stakes call, calibration matters more than accuracy. The 2026 calibration techniques and how to operationalize them.
Diffusion-based LLMs like LLaDA and Mercury generate text in parallel rather than left-to-right. The 2026 production picture.
Three distributed-training options for PyTorch in 2026 compared on ergonomics, scaling, and where each one wins.