Five Knobs, Sub-50ms

Nari Labs walked through five coordinated optimizations that bring Qwen3-TTS 1.7B to sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio on a single H100, at $2 per million characters — against ElevenLabs at $100/M. None of the five changes require a new model architecture. Each targets a specific latency source, and the gains compound.

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The Serving Stack Writes Itself

A University of Washington paper shows a multi-agent loop that generates complete LLM serving systems end-to-end. On standard workloads it matches vLLM; on six specialized scenarios — hybrid architectures, streaming ASR, constrained decoding, multimodal pipelines — it beats it by 1.7× to nearly 6×. The paper surfaces a practical claim: the general-purpose serving stack is a compromise, and specialization can be automated.

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