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Insight
Quantization, speculative decoding, and prefill-decode disaggregation each yield 2x speedups
“Going from BF-sixteen to NVFP four is, it's not quite a two X, right? It's like, I think it's about like 30, 30 to 40% from 16 to eight, and then another 30 to 40% multiplied from eight to four. So that doesn't quite get you a two X, but like roughly a two X. …”
Philip Kiely Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 40:03 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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TurboQuant is inefficient on high-bandwidth data center GPUs like NVIDIA B200
“TurboQuant would not be like, it would not be used. Like Nvidia made it clear that this is not a good optimization. And we've seen it firsthand where the overhead of doing dequantization, quantization of You know, in the kernel itself, the turbo-quant kernel, …”
Ali Taha Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 50:02 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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