The Software Frontier
Lorenzo Bradanini, Lorenzo TettamantiWhere abstraction ends. Essays on GPU execution, kernel internals, and distributed systems at scale.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 105 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Kimi K3: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, Four Bits at a Time
Intro
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 precisely on July 16. The headline number is 2.8 trillion parameters, which makes it the largest open-weight model ever announced.
We spent the launch week reading almost everything published about i...
Exploring how MLIR works: the compiler rewiring the AI stack
Qualcomm just agreed to pay roughly $3.9 billion for a 150 person compiler company. Tesla says it rebuilt the FSD compiler and runtime on the same infrastructure. NVIDIA’s newest Python kernel DSL compiles through it. That infrastructure is...
How LLVM Works: The IR That Took Over Modern Computing
Intro
This is the story of how LLVM’s intermediate representation ate modern computing, told at the level of the instructions themselves, with the source numbers checked.
LLVM won because of two decisions made in one semester in the ye...
The Wafer & the Wallet
Intro
For three years, the cost of making a token fell every quarter while the budget to buy tokens grew without a meter. In H1 2026 both curves reversed at once: memory pass-through is raising the cost floor of every token served, whi...
The Router and the Wire
The cost did not vanish. It moved.
Every few months the inference market tells itself a story about where the money goes, and every few months the story is wrong in the same direction. For two years the story was memory.
The key-value...
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Self-taught software engineer skilled in data science, software engineering, ML, and cryptography, focused on developing innovative solutions to complex challenges.
BSc Physics student at the University of Milan. Interested in Machine Learning | Computational Physics | Artificial Intelligence | Physics Simulations
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