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Inference Radar·2026-W22·May 28 — Jun 3, 2026·18 min read

vLLM Ignites the KV-Cache War

This was not a model-launch week; it was an inference-systems week. Across cloud serving, local runtimes, and edge frameworks, the center of gravity moved toward KV-cache hierarchy, low-precision execution, speculative decoding, and production-safe OpenAI-compatible APIs.

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