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LLM Inference

LLM Token Pricing 101: What a Token Costs and How to Forecast the Bill

Every FinOps lead and engineering manager running Qwen on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio faces the same budget question: what will each workload actually ...

Model Routing Explained: Send Each Request to the Cheapest Model That Passes

Every platform team serving Qwen at volume faces the same choice: send every request to the flagship, or route each one to the cheapest model that pas...

Open Weights vs. Managed API: Which Qwen Deployment Fits a Regulated Enterprise?

Every regulated enterprise running AI faces the same question: run Qwen open weights on infrastructure you control, or call Qwen through a managed API...

When AI Transitions from 'Conversation' to 'Collaboration,' Who Will Manage the Working Memory of Millions of Tokens?

This article introduces Mooncake, a KVCache infrastructure designed to eliminate memory and latency bottlenecks in multi-agent LLM inference.

Low GPU Utilization You Can't Explain? Try This Zero-Intrusion AI Profiling Tool

This article introduces SysOM AI Profiling, a zero-intrusion, full-lifecycle tool for diagnosing GPU performance bottlenecks and memory issues in AI workloads.

Speculative Decoding: Turning LLM Inference from One-Token-at-a-Time into a Systems Optimization Problem

Speculative decoding accelerates large language model (LLM) inference by changing decoding from a one-token-at-a-time loop into a draft-and-verify serving pattern.

From Incubation in OpenAnolis to Upstream Contribution: SGLang Tracing and AI Agent Tuning Practices

This article introduces SGLang Tracing for request-level LLM inference observability and AI agent-driven performance optimization practices.

Scaling GenAI Globally with Alibaba Cloud Platform for AI (PAI) & EAS

This blog provides a practical guide to deploying and scaling generative AI applications globally using Alibaba Cloud PAI and Elastic Algorithm Service (EAS).

Alibaba Cloud Tair KVCache Simulation Analysis: High-Precision Computational and Caching Simulation Design and Implementation

This article introduces Tair-KVCache-HiSim, a high-fidelity CPU-based simulator for optimizing multi-tier KV Cache configurations in LLM inference.

SGLang Hierarchical Sparse Attention

This article introduces hierarchical sparse attention: the full KV Cache is stored on the CPU, while the GPU keeps only a Top-k LRU Buffer.

Alibaba Cloud Storage Wins Best Paper Award at Global Top Conference FAST

This article introduces Alibaba Cloud’s Best Paper win at FAST 2026 for its new “Latte” local–cloud converged storage architecture and its breakthrough evolution in cloud native storage.

Building a Production-Grade Cloud-Native Large Model Inference Platform with SGlang RBG + Mooncake

This article shows how SGLang RBG + Mooncake enable production-grade, cloud-native LLM inference with PD-disaggregation.

Self-Hosted GPU or Model-as-a-Service? A Strategic Guide for AI Leaders

This article offers a framework for choosing between self-hosted GPUs and MaaS for LLM inference by weighing cost, data, engineering, and scalability tradeoffs.

Caching is Efficiency: Achieving Precise LLM Cache Hits with Alibaba Cloud ACK GIE

This article introduces ACK GIE's precision-mode prefix cache-aware routing that maximizes KV-Cache hit rates for distributed LLM inference.

Use NVIDIA NIM to Accelerate LLM Inference in Alibaba Cloud ACK

This article introduces how to use the cloud-native AI suite to integrate open-source inference service framework KServe and quickly deploy NVIDIA NIM in an ACK cluster.