One Request, End to End: Tokenize, Prefill, Decode, Stream
What really happens in the second after you ask a chatbot a question? A trip through the Word Factory, explained simply.
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Inference Foundations
How AI chatbots actually answer you, explained simply and measured for real. Short, friendly on-ramps to LLM inference: tokens, prefill, decode, the KV cache, batching and more.
