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The AI Ascend blog.
Deep dives, applied tutorials, and the AI news that matters.
May 30, 2026
The $8M trillion: when frontier-grade training falls out of the lab
DeepSeek shipped a 1.6T-parameter model in April 2026 with native Ascend inference support while OpenAI committed $500B to Stargate. Both can be right, but only one of them is a moat.
9 min read
May 29, 2026
Stop fine-tuning for facts: the silent productivity tax of mis-matched tools
Most teams reach for fine-tuning when they should reach for retrieval. The cost is not just dollars - it is months of confused engineers trying to figure out why the model started lying again.
3 min read
May 24, 2026 · ✦ co-written with Claude
Prompt Caching: A Practical Guide for Production LLM Engineering
Prompt Caching is one of the highest-leverage optimizations available to you
5 min read