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Open-Source Serving Stacks: vLLM vs TGI vs TensorRT-LLM in 2026
Your choice of serving engine determines 30-60% of your inference cost. Here's which one wins for your workload.
Serving infrastructure is the largest variable cost in any AI deployment. Picking the wrong engine means leaving money and latency on the table.
Cloud GPU Pricing Shifts in Q1 2026
AWS, GCP, and Azure all adjusted GPU instance pricing this quarter. The savings are real, but only if you know where to look.
GPU compute is typically 60-80% of AI infrastructure spend. A 15-20% price shift changes the economics of every deployment decision.
MCP Is Winning the Agent Tool Protocol War
Six months after launch, MCP has 2,000+ community servers and adoption from every major AI lab. The protocol war is over before it started.
Agent-tool integration is the plumbing layer of the AI economy. Whoever controls the protocol controls the ecosystem's interoperability — and the switching costs.
Agent Payment Rails Are Finally Emerging
Agents that can browse, code, and reason are useless if they can't pay for the services they need. That bottleneck is breaking.
Agent autonomy requires financial autonomy. Without payment rails, every agent transaction needs a human in the loop — which defeats the purpose of automation.
Model Benchmarks Are Lying to You
That model scoring 92% on MMLU? It might perform 15-20 points lower on your actual workload. Here's why, and what to do about it.
Model selection drives architecture decisions, cost projections, and product timelines. If your selection is based on misleading benchmarks, everything downstream is wrong.
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Infrastructure
GPUs, serving stacks, cost curves, and the hardware layer that powers everything. For teams making infrastructure investment decisions.
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Agent Economy
Agent frameworks, tool ecosystems, payment rails, and the emerging economic layer. For builders designing agent-native products.
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