Foundational research powering efficient inference at scale

This post details the critical role of inference optimization in AI product economics, highlighting its impact on latency, throughput, model landscape evolution, and concurrency. It emphasizes Together AI's compounding stack of research and systems engineering, including contributions to FlashAttention-4, ThunderKittens, and Aurora (adaptive speculative decoding). It also discusses full-stack hardware optimization on NVIDIA Blackwell, intelligent scheduling and batching, and the economic advantages of efficient inference, positioning Together AI's platform as an 'AI Native Cloud' for AI-native companies.