A technical analysis by DotWave highlights that NVIDIA's reference stack for serving real-time AI models is inefficient, supporting only one concurrent session on an H100 GPU and leaving the GPU...

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        "excerpt": "This is actually great breakdown of the batch scheduling problem. Most people don't realize how different continuous inference is from request-response pattern. I worked on similar issue last year for ASR pipeline and we kept scratching our heads why latency looked good in grafana but users complained about stutters.\n\n The 75% GPU idle time in reference stack is painful to read. That's basically b",
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    "post_text": "Hey guys,\n\nWe've published two technical write-ups on serving real-time AI models and wanted to share the main findings here. We build the inference engine; NVIDIA develops the model we tested, Nemotron VoiceChat 11B.\n\nA request ends. A session runs on a clock.\n\nAI inference today is organized as requests: an input arrives, the model runs, the response ends and its resources are freed. If the server is busy, it can wait a moment to batch work or reorder the queue, and the cost is a slightly slower response.\n\nA growing class of models works differently. They stay active alongside something outside the GPU (a conversation, a video stream, a robot), take in input continuously and keep their state for the whole session. We call this continuous inference.\n\nFull-duplex voice is the clearest example. The model listens while it speaks, so you can interrupt it. Audio keeps arriving for the whole call, its memory of the conversation stays live until you hang up, and every 80 ms it owes the next frame of output. That deadline comes whether the server is ready or not. If the frame is late, you hear a gap.\n\nIt also has to run during silence: the length of a pause is how the model tells a hesitation from the end of your turn. Unlike a classic voice agent (speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech, where the LLM sits idle between turns), there's no idle time to skip.\n\nWhy that gets so...",
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