SNOWFLAKE CLAIMS BREAKTHROUGH CAN CUT AI INFERENCING TIMES BY MORE THAN 50%

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Snowflake has integrated SwiftKV, a technique from its AI Research, to optimize LLM inference, improving throughput by 50% and reducing costs by up to 75% for some Llama models. SwiftKV enhances efficiency by recycling hidden states in LLM layers, reducing memory usage and computational overhead without significant loss of accuracy. The technique will be available in other models within Snowflake's Cortex AI, boosting performance in tasks like summarization and real-time AI applications.