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What is a Forward Deployed Engineer? The term ‘Forward Deployed Engineer’ (FDE) sounds military. That is intentional. A Forward Deployed Engineer is a software engineer who works embedded with the customer’s technical and operational environment on-site, hybrid, remote, or inside a customer cloud or VPC, depending on the engagement. The FDE does not sit at […]
Vector search underpins most retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. At scale, it gets expensive. Storing 10 million document embeddings in float32 consumes 31 GB of RAM. For dev teams running local or on-premise inference, that number creates real constraints. A new open-source library called turbovec addresses this directly. It is a vector index written in Rust
NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding. It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes. The family includes base, instruct, and vision-language variants. Sequential Decoding Limits Throughput Standard autoregressive (AR) language
As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted memory becomes, the more private user data it exposes. Researchers from MemTensor (Shanghai), HONOR Device and Tongji University have introduced MemPrivacy, a framework that attempts to resolve this tension without sacrificing the utility that makes
Training large language models on long sequences has a well-known problem: attention is expensive. The scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) at the core of every transformer scales quadratically Θ(N²) in both compute and memory with sequence length N. FlashAttention addressed this through IO-aware tiling that avoids materializing the full N×N attention matrix in high-bandwidth memory, reducing
Running AI agents in a local script is straightforward. Running them reliably in production across teams, across restarts, with isolated environments per context is a different problem entirely. BerriAI, the company behind the LiteLLM AI Gateway, is now open-sourcing a purpose-built answer to that problem: the LiteLLM Agent Platform. The platform is described as a
Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work in diffusion-language models. The release demonstrates that an existing autoregressive language model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss of evaluation performance, while delivering substantial inference speedups on AMD hardware.
Pre-training large language models is expensive enough that even modest efficiency improvements can translate into meaningful cost and time savings. Nous Research is releasing Token Superposition Training (TST), a method that substantially reduces pre-training wall-clock time at fixed compute without touching the model architecture, optimizer, tokenizer, parallelism strategy, or training data. At the 10B-A1B mixture-of-experts
By the time a company’s legal team finishes drafting its generative AI acceptable use policy, a meaningful percentage of its engineers, analysts, and product managers have already moved past it. Not deliberately. Not maliciously. Just practically. This is the core dynamic of what the industry now calls shadow AI: the unauthorized, ungoverned use of AI
As LLM-powered applications move into production — and as AI agents take on more consequential tasks like browsing the web, writing and executing code, and interacting with external services — safety moderation has quietly become one of the most operationally expensive parts of the stack. Most developers who’ve deployed a production LLM system know the
