'Software 3.0' LLM infrastructure will operate like public utilities — requiring massive upfront capex (training compute, specialized hardware), specialized networking protocols for synchrony across hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and flawless uninterru...

'Software 3.0' LLM infrastructure will operate like public utilities — requiring massive upfront capex (training compute, specialized hardware), specialized networking protocols for synchrony across hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and flawless uninterrupted uptime; foundational software infrastructure will pivot from text-versioned Git to binary-weight / real-time inference platforms. | Next-gen kernel/hardware co-design releases

Key catalyst: Next-gen kernel/hardware co-design releases

Watch events: Claude / ChatGPT uptime SLAs; weights-format standardization; kernel-engineering open-source growth

ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini 99.9% uptime demands; Modal / Replicate / Anyscale / Anthropic Bedrock proliferation. Weights-as-binary tooling (LoRA, SafeTensors, ggml) mainstream.

Beneficiaries (9)

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