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The AI Magic Trick Is Actually a Memory Problem

📅 August 9, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Most of what looks like “intelligence” in LLMs is actually a sophisticated memory management problem. vLLM’s breakthrough — treating the KV cache like an operating system pages memory — reveals that the next wave of AI gains won’t come from bigger models, but from smarter cache design. The battle between radix attention and paged attention is the real frontier, and whoever masters memory hierarchy will dominate the next decade of AI.

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The 3.5 Million Yuan Illusion: Why ‘Free’ Open-Source AI Is a Trap for Most Companies

📅 July 27, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

The open-source MoE model GLM-5.2 is free to download, but deploying it locally requires a 3.5 million RMB server — and that’s just the start. The real cost of ‘free’ AI is a hardware gate that only the wealthiest enterprises can afford, shattering the illusion of democratized artificial intelligence.

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