"Frontier models need a datacenter GPU" rests on a hidden assumption: that the model reads ALL its parameters every token. Decode is memory-bandwidth bound — sweep 34B params/token and an 8 GB card dies at 1–2 tok/s.
So we ran ONE 34.7B reasoning model — Ourbox-35B-JGOS, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts — as the identical weights across the whole hardware spectrum. All measured:
Why it works: Ourbox holds 34.7B params but only ~3B are active per token (256 experts, top-8). Since decode is bandwidth-bound, a dense 34B moves ~16.7 GB/token while Ourbox moves ~1.45 GB — ~11× less traffic. Put the experts in system RAM, keep attention/router/shared on the GPU, and a 34.7B reasoner runs on an 8 GB laptop — or no GPU at all.
Sparsity alone, proven (same laptop, same quant, ~same footprint): Ourbox-35B (A3B) 20.01 tok/s vs Qwen2.5-32B (dense) 5.36 → 3.7× from sparsity alone, ~2× the best dense-32B on any 8 GB machine. Not a toy: GPQA Diamond 86.4% (maj@8).
Try it live (same prompt, GPU vs GPU-less CPU, live tok/s). Honest scope: one machine's measurements; the CPU path proves it RUNS without a GPU, not that it beats one.
🔓 We ran genuine quantum key-recovery on 'real IBM quantum hardware' — and pushed the frontier well past the largest hardware demos we're aware of (which sat at N=4).
Using Simon's algorithm on ibm_kingston, we recovered the secret key of two symmetric-cipher structures: • Even–Mansour — N=5 → N=10 • 3-round Feistel (DES-family) — block 6 → 8
Each verified against an 'independent control key', using error mitigation only (no QEC).
🧭 Honest scope: this is not a quantum speedup (the effective difficulty tracks the classical birthday bound ~2^{n/2}), not a break of real AES/RSA, and not 16-round DES (ours is 3-round). The recovery method is reserved for a forthcoming paper; formal record status is pending peer review.
AI is usually framed as "how smart is the model / how many GPUs did you buy." The real bottleneck is elsewhere — how efficiently you use the GPUs you already have.
Training happens once; inference runs the entire time users use your product. So a service's economics come down to cost per token. Inference acceleration uses software to pull several times more out of the same GPU — the effect of plugging in one more "virtual GPU."
VIDRAFT's VKAE, measured (B200, same-harness, no quality loss):
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (MoE): 25.7 → 601 tok/s (23.4×) Darwin-36B-Opus (in-house MoE): 25.0 → 280.8 (11.2×) 10,000+ tok/s peak aggregate under concurrency The key: it's reproducible — model + serving shipped as one container.
docker pull vidraft/qwen35-vkae:601 Don't take our word for it — run it yourself. The mechanism will be released as a paper.