Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale(blog.cloudflare.com)
230 points by ascorbic 19 hours ago | 58 comments
tl;dr: Cloudflare's Workers AI serves large MoE models like Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2 more efficiently by quantizing the KV cache to FP8 (doubling context capacity to ~1.37M tokens and boosting peak throughput ~41%) and compressing GLM weights to INT4 (shrinking the checkpoint 40% and speeding decode 16-55%), with negligible accuracy loss. They apply these selectively across disaggregated prefill/decode pools, and added a KV cache integrity check that catches page-mapping errors at under 1% overhead. All work is done on SGLang with patches upstreamed.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Appreciates transparency on KV quantization but wants more thorough cross-model testing and evaluation
  • Accuses Cloudflare of effectively defrauding users by silently serving quantized models without warnings on model pages
  • Distrusts Cloudflare due to privacy/surveillance concerns like lack of Zero Data Retention
  • Questions technical choices like INT4 over supposedly superior 4-bit formats like NF4
  • Criticizes the writing quality as AI-generated slop or overly shallow for the topic