Ai Agents — 7 Articles on SpecPicks
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- Data Center CPU Demand Surge: AI Agents and the GPU Ratio Shift — AI agents are driving record data center CPU demand. Why the CPU-to-GPU ratio is now a critical design parameter for hyperscaler AI… 2026-07-15
- Bilingual Voice Agents: Frontier ASR on Code-Switched Speech — Whether frontier ASR can handle bilingual customers who code-switch mid-sentence: published benchmarks, deployment patterns, and hardware… 2026-07-14
- vLLM vs llama.cpp for Single-User Chat on a 12GB GPU (2026) — vLLM's paged KV cache is genius on H100 clusters; llama.cpp is the right pick for a single-user 12GB local rig. Here's why, with real… 2026-07-07 · 9 min read
- Silicon Motion PCIe 6.0: Nvidia AI Drives Consumer Storage — Silicon Motion says Nvidia's AI PC ecosystem—not AMD or Intel platform cycles—is the real demand signal behind its consumer PCIe 6.0 SSD… 2026-07-07
- Acti Brings AI Agents Into Your Smartphone Keyboard — Acti embeds stateful AI agents into the smartphone keyboard, enabling on-device drafting, translation, and intent prediction without cloud… 2026-07-06
- Benchmarking Open Models on Custom Tooling: Is It Agentic Enough? — Public benchmarks show which open models handle tool calling, but your own API schemas require a custom harness. Here's what the data… 2026-07-02
- Building multi-agent AI orchestrators — LangGraph, DSPy, n8n, and picking the right one — LangChain's state-machine framework. Nodes are agents or tools; edges are state transitions. Best for: Deterministic workflows (this →… 2026-04-21 · 2 min read
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