back in may i was thinking about an open market for reusable AI computation
deepseek’s KV cache compression has me revisiting it
what if providers turned articles and video clips into precomputed KV cache chunks for specific models, ready for inference operators to buy and reuse?
compression could make those chunks cheaper to store and deliver
premine useful context - get paid when someone buys the computed chunks
💾 Smaller KV cache. Bigger savings.
Compared with the previous generation, V4.1-Flash’s KV cache needs just:
🔹 1/4 the HBM
🔹 1/8 the SSD storage
Cache-hit charges often account for a large share of agent costs. Compressing the cache cuts those costs significantly.
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