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2026-08-27
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Inference & Serving
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Cutting Inference Cost in Practice — What to Do First
Quantization and distillation both work, but in most shops there are two or three levers left that cost you nothing in quality. Break the bill into four numbers, then reorder the work: cache, batch, shorten, compress. What each lever actually buys, and what breaks when you take them out of order.