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Think your GPU setup is fine? These 4 sneaky mistakes in serving open-source LLMs could be costing you more than you realize.
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TL;DR Serving open-source models in production rarely means running a single model. It often involves many small models running on shared hardware. Fix the retrieval layer, improve GPU utilization, and do the break-even math, and the choice between frontier and open models will matter much less than you think.