TLDR Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

THE ROAD TO A BILLION-TOKEN CONTEXT

cacm.acm.org7 min read

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Current AI models struggle with long conversations due to limited context windows, which causes performance degradation and hallucinations as memory bandwidth becomes a bottleneck. To overcome this, the hardware industry is optimizing inference with specialized architectures like Nvidia's Rubin CPX, aiming for billion-token contexts by 2030.