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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

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scrlk2 hours ago

Nice to see a provider being transparent about KV cache quantisation. I've been suspecting that some providers do this silently whilst heavily promoting their unquantised weights, even though KV quantisation can degrade quality more than weight quantisation.

However, I wish their testing were more detailed. Firstly, some model families are more sensitive to KV quantisation than others (only Kimi K2.6 was tested). Secondly, the evaluation suite they use to claim that FP8 KV quantisation is indistinguishable is noticeably lacking coding benchmarks; in long-running tasks, minor tool call errors compound over time.

syntaxing52 minutes ago

> View pricing in the Cloudflare dashboard ↗

Why… I wanted to see if it’s worth it to use cloudflare’s endpoint but I can’t even see the pricing

brokenodo2 hours ago

I was interested in reading this until my slop detector went off at the paragraph starting with “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.”

I love AI, but I really hate reading it.

hankbond2 hours ago

I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.

dgellow30 minutes ago

Don’t stop commenting about it, if there is something we (the readers) can do is ensure it is seen as uncool to post slop content

gr_norm1 hour ago

LinkedIn (of all places!) announced a button for flagging this recently: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top...

How well it would work on this site, I'm not sure.

speedgoose1 hour ago

If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.

Oras16 minutes ago

If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all

hankbond1 hour ago

Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.

physix1 hour ago

Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.

trollbridge1 hour ago

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arjie1 hour ago

Cloudflare blogs are not meant to be human-read, AFAIK. They're raw material meant to be fed into an agent to be filtered down. I rarely read the contents because they are usually word-expanded to a greater degree than an article from The Atlantic.

dgellow28 minutes ago

That’s disappointing, in the past cloudflare had some of the best engineering blog articles