@charles_irl: Step 2 to achieve truly serverless GPUs for AI inference: skip full image loads on container start. Instead, load the i…
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Discusses a technique for achieving truly serverless GPUs for AI inference by skipping full image loads on container start and instead loading images asynchronously.
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Step 2 to achieve truly serverless GPUs for AI inference: skip full image loads on container start. Instead, load the image asynchronously, both eagerly (for commonly-used files) and lazily. https://t.co/OBG2A0cmdD
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