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Time to First Token: How Long Does It Take for a Large Model to Start Responding?

When using large language models, we typically have two perceptions of “speed”: one is how long it takes for the first character to appear after a question is posed; the other is whether the text generated after the response begins flows smoothly. This is similar to a conversation with a person: after you ask a question, the other person might pause before speaking. Time to First Token (TTFT) measures this “wait time before speaking.” We can explain this clearly from three perspectives.

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Vercel Blog

Vercel CLI can now set new projects to expire

You can now set a new project to expire when you deploy it with . Expired projects are deleted automatically, so prototypes, demos, and test apps don't need cleaning up by hand.Vercel CLI Run with and a duration:vercel deploy--delete-project-after Supported durations are , , , , and , and the CLI prints the date and time when the project expires. The flag only applies when creates the project. If you deploy to an existing project with the flag, its expiration doesn't change and the CLI prints

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The Verge Tech

Amazon is now making a Melania Trump TV series

Following the Melania documentary movie that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the first lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th. "MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told stories, offering unprecedented insight into Melania Trump's life, including the extraordinary days immediately following the 47th Presidential Inauguration," according to a description in a press release. Here's what Amaz

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The Verge Tech

Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses

Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just "a few dollars," as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy activity on the White House network. A residential proxy opens up a way for people to rent access to a home IP address and route their internet traffic through it, allowing them

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick

As we built Amazon Quick, its agents grew from answering questions to taking actions, and the same primitives kept getting rebuilt under different names. This post shares the taxonomy we converged on — triggers, agents, capabilities, and learned context — found by decomposing agentic work into four plain questions: When, What, Who, and How.

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