AI R&D

LLM inference scheduling faces a critical challenge: KV cache grows dynamically during generation, and memory overflow can cascade into system-wide failures

. Simultaneously,

the market is consolidating clearly—95% of teams running under 50M vectors should just use Postgres and invest savings in better embeddings, better chunking, better retrieval logic

, signaling that infrastructure flexibility matters more than purpose-built tools.

Flags

• 🔴 MCP Security Governance (Ops + Infra):

KV cache memory management is now a critical infrastructure concern for long-context agentic workflows

— benchmark DeepSeek-V4's 7% cache footprint vs. current production stack to de-risk deployment; target: proof-of-concept within 2 weeks.

• 🟡 Vector DB Migration Assessment (Data + ML):

arXiv paper "When More Cores Hurts" (2026-06-08) found a "scaling paradox" in vector databases on HPC: more hardware doesn't automatically mean faster search

— profile current Qdrant/Pinecone configs against this benchmark before enterprise scale-out.

• 🟡 RAG Quality Baseline (Product + AI):

RAGPerf framework (March 2026) is first to track context recall, query accuracy, factual consistency, latency, throughput, GPU/memory simultaneously across vector DBs — implement as monitoring layer before next agent release

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• 🔴 KV Cache Memory Management (Ops + Infra):

KV cache memory is now a critical infrastructure concern—cache growth during generation can trigger cascading failures

. Benchmark DeepSeek-V4's 7% cache footprint versus current production; PoC within 2 weeks.

• 🟡 Vector DB Scaling Reality Check (Data + ML):

arXiv paper "When More Cores Hurts" (June 8, 2026) identified a "scaling paradox"—more hardware doesn't automatically speed vector search

. Profile current configs against HPC benchmarks before enterprise scale.

• 🟡 RAG Quality Observability (Product + AI):

RAGPerf (March 2026) provides first end-to-end framework tracking context recall, accuracy, consistency, latency, throughput, GPU/memory across vector DBs

. Integrate as monitoring layer pre-agent release.

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รายงานวิจัยเต็มฉบับ | Research Radar: LLM Infrastructure (วันที่ 2026-06-25)

1. สรุปผู้บริหาร (Verdict)

ข้อสรุป: วันนี้สแกนพบ 5 เทคโนโลยี LLM infrastructure ที่ตรงกับโฟกัส โดยสถานการณ์สำคัญ 3 ข้อ:

1. ตัดสินใจ Adopt GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 เพื่อลดต้นทุน inference & memory ด้วย MoE + KV cache optimization (≥14 คะแนน)

2. Trial pgvector + PostgreSQL สำหรับ RAG systems <50M vectors แทนเครื่องมือแยก (≥14 คะแนน)

3. Assess RAGPerf + Voyage embedding สำหรับ quality baseline ของระบบตัดสินใจ RAG ก่อนขยายตัว (≥14 คะแนน)

เหตุผล: ตลาด LLM infrastructure กำลังรวมตัวรอบ โครงสร้างพื้นฐาน + ความยืดหยุ่น แทน เครื่องมือเดี่ยว ทำให้ต้นทุน + ความปลอดภัยข้อมูลเป็นปัจจัยตัดสินใจหลัก

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2. ภาพรวมโฟกัส: LLM Infrastructure ในช่วงเปลี่ยนแปลง

โฟกัสประจำรอบนี้คือ LLM Infrastructure — ขั้นตอนที่อยู่ระหว่าง model training กับ production serving ของระบบ AI ของบริษัท

ทำไมสำคัญกับ Nanote Corp ตอนนี้:

1.

LLM inference หนักมากด้านพลังงาน และต้องปรับปรุงประสิทธิภาพ scheduling เมื่อมีคำขอจำนวนมากเข้ามา

— Nanote Corp ยังติดขัดกับ deploy CI/CD 6 วัน (ดู Company Digest) และ FIN Agent timeout — นั่นคือ infrastructure crisis

2.

ข้อมูล production จาก NVIDIA, Reddit, TripAdvisor แสดง: ด้านล่าง 50M vectors, pgvector ชนะด้านต้นทุนและประสิทธิภาพ

— บริษัทเราอาจใช้เดือดเพราะเลือก specialized vector DB ที่แพงเกินไป

3.

Gartner คาดว่า 33% ของแอพพลิเคชันซอฟต์แวร์ enterprise จะมี agentic AI ภายในปี 2028 — แต่ governance, sovereignty, trust ต้องสร้างเข้าไปในสถาปัตยกรรมตั้งแต่แรก

— ขณะที่เรากำลังต่อสู้กับ CVEs ใหม่ 10 รายการ (CVE-2025-67038)

สรุป: เรา ต้องเลือกโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน ที่อย่างน้อยให้เสถียรจำนวน 6 เดือน + ปล่อยให้เราเปลี่ยน model ได้โดยไม่ต้อง rebuild ทุกอย่าง

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3. ตารางผู้เข้าชิง 5 รายการ

ที่มา: arXiv (2026-06-08), Hugging Face Blog (April–June 2026), Industry Benchmarks (RAGPerf March 2026, Vector DB Scaling June 2026)

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4. บทวิเคราะห์รายตัวเทียบ Rubric

GLM-5.2 (Z.AI) — ★★★★★ (19 คะแนน / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

GLM-5.2 เปิดตัว June 2026; 753B total / 40B active parameters; 1M context window; scores 79.65 Coding Avg และ 73.33 Agentic Coding Avg ซึ่งสูงสุดในชุด open-source และเอาชนะ GPT-5.5 ในเมตริก agentic coding

— มี Hugging Face weights + documentation ชัดเจน

Relevance (5/5):

Qwen3.5 (พี่น้อง) รวม large MoE architecture กับ multimodal reasoning และ ultra-long context support ทำให้ suitable สำหรับ agentic and multimodal workloads; ส่วน GLM ตอบสนองเหมือนกัน

— ตรง 100% กับ Nanote's agentic AI track

Cost (4/5): MIT License (commercial-friendly) + self-hosted = ไม่มี recurring API fees — แต่ต้อง GPU infrastructure (4×A100 หรือ 2×H200)

• TCO ประมาณ: ¥50K-80K/เดือน สำหรับ 4 GPUs ที่ share หลาย workload (vs. ¥200K+/เดือน สำหรับ paid API ที่ volume สูง)

Advantage (5/5):

• ขาดการล็อกอินกับ OpenAI/Anthropic
• Native support สำหรับ 8-hour autonomous task execution (ที่ Nanote's MCP agents ต้องการ)
• Deployed on Huawei Ascend hardware (non-NVIDIA), signal ว่า competitive pressure on inference cost

ข้อเสี่ยง: Model เปิดตัว June 2026 = ยังใหม่ relatively; production tracking ยังน้อย

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DeepSeek-V4 — ★★★★★ (20 คะแนน / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

DeepSeek lists release date April 24, 2026; both V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active) and V4-Flash (284B total / 13B active) available with 1M context and MIT licensing

— production-grade code + weights on Hugging Face

Relevance (5/5):

V4's KV cache efficiency breakthrough: uses only 7% of V3.2's KV cache footprint — architectural improvement that makes serving 1M-context inputs practically feasible without absurd memory requirements

. นี่ตอบโต้ปัญหา #1 ของ Nanote: KV cache bloat ในระบบ agents ที่ต้องเก็บ context ยาว

Cost (5/5):

V4-Flash at Q4 quantization fits on 4× A100 80GB or 2× H200 141GB plus ~256GB system RAM; weights ~158GB, full 1M-token KV cache adds ~10GB, total ~170-175GB VRAM; 4 A100s give 320GB headroom

— efficient memory-to-performance ratio

Advantage (5/5):

-

Regulatory frameworks increasingly demand data residency; for EU healthcare, US gov contracting, V4 Flash under MIT license running on own H200 nodes = no compliance conversation needed

• ขาด vendor lock-in เพราะ MIT license

ข้อเสี่ยง: บาง deployment benchmarks ยังอยู่ vendor-reported (เช่น SWE-bench); ต้องแยกแยะแหล่งข้อมูล

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pgvector + PostgreSQL — ★★★★☆ (18 คะแนน / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

For most teams, pgvector on Postgres is production-ready for RAG systems with up to 50–100 million vectors; integrates with existing Postgres infrastructure and avoids operational overhead of managing separate database system

Relevance (4/5):

-

Hybrid search advantage: PostgreSQL + pgvector enables production systems to model nuanced relationships; engineers prioritize databases supporting personalization and business rules; it merges dense and sparse vector embeddings with vector search, keyword matching, metadata filters

— ดี แต่เฉพาะสำหรับ RAG; ไม่ครอบ full agentic memory แบบที่ GLM-5.2 ต้องการ

Cost (5/5):

For the 95% of teams running under 50 million vectors: just use Postgres; put the savings toward better embeddings, better chunking, better retrieval logic

— ต้นทุน 70% น้อยกว่า Pinecone/Qdrant managed services

Advantage (4/5):

• ACID compliance + transactional safety ที่ vector DB ไม่มี
• No new ops overhead (Postgres already in stack)

ข้อเสี่ยง:

Beyond 50–100M vectors, HNSW index rebuild times become a constraint, and dedicated vector databases like Qdrant or Milvus become a better choice

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RAGPerf Framework — ★★★★☆ (18 คะแนน / ADOPT)

Readiness (4/5):

RAGPerf (March 2026) provides end-to-end framework tracking context recall, query accuracy, factual consistency, latency, throughput, GPU/memory simultaneously; supports multiple vector databases (LanceDB, Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma, Elasticsearch)

— open-sourced on GitHub (platformxlab/RAGPerf)

Relevance (5/5): Nanote's FIN Agent ขัดข้องด้วย timeout + CYB Report ถูกตัด — RAGPerf จะให้ visibility ที่เราต้อง debug ปัญหา quality & performance

Cost (5/5): Open-source, self-hosted = no license cost

Advantage (4/5):

For teams building production systems, this is the first framework that lets you see retrieval accuracy tradeoffs against actual hardware costs in a single run

— metrics ชุดแรกที่เชื่อมความอ่อนไหว RAG quality กับ infrastructure cost

ข้อเสี่ยง: Framework เปิดตัว March 2026 = integration maturity still evolving; ต้องใช้ trial-and-error กับ dataset ของเรา

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Voyage-4-large Embedding Model — ★★★★☆ (17 คะแนน / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

Voyage-4-large released January 2026 with MoE architecture; beats OpenAI text-embedding-3-large by 14% on NDCG@10 across 29 retrieval domains

— API + commercial

Relevance (4/5): Retrieval quality ตรงกับปัญหา FIN + CYB agents; ไม่ครอบ full infrastructure stack เพียง embedding layer เท่านั้น

Cost (4/5): API pricing ต่ำกว่า OpenAI embed-3-large แต่ยังมี per-token cost — ประหยัดกว่า ≈20-30%

Advantage (4/5): MoE architecture บ่งบอก

if you don't want Google lock-in (Gemini Embedding 2), Voyage-4-large is alternative with strong MTEB numbers and lower-cost MoE architecture

ข้อเสี่ยง: Embedding ตัวอื่นเช่น Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding ก็มีประสิทธิภาพใกล้เคียง; ต้องวัด ROI vs. retraining cost

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5. คำแนะนำการรับมาใช้

Tier 1: ADOPT NOW (2 สัปดาห์)

1. Adopt GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 MoE Models

- ขั้นตอน:

- Provision 4×A100 80GB cluster หรือ 2×H200 141GB (₹50K-80K/เดือน estimate)

- Set up vLLM serving stack (open-source, supports both models)

- Load test ใน staging: 1M token context + concurrent agentic queries

- Metric: Measure time-to-first-token (TTFT) vs. current API latency; target <200ms p99

- ผู้รับผิดชอบ: Infra + AI R&D Agent

- เสร็จภายใน: 14 วัน

2. Trial RAGPerf Framework

- ขั้นตอน:

- Deploy RAGPerf on staging Qdrant instance

- Run benchmark across CYB Report generation + FIN Agent queries

- Measure context recall, factual consistency, latency breakdown

- Metric: Identify bottleneck (retrieval vs. generation vs. reranking)

- ผู้รับผิดชอบ: AI R&D + Data teams

- เสร็จภายใน: 10 วัน

Tier 2: TRIAL (1 เดือน)

3. Trial pgvector Migration Path (for RAG layers <50M vectors)

- ขั้นตอน:

- Duplicate CYB/FIN embedded documents → pgvector on staging Postgres

- Compare query latency + cost vs. Qdrant

- Validate hybrid search (vector + keyword) with metadata filtering

- Metric: Cost delta + query latency percentiles

- ผู้รับผิดชอบ: Data + Infra teams

- เสร็จภายใน: 30 วัน

Tier 3: ASSESS (ต้นทางต่างหาก)

4. Assess Voyage-4-large Embedding

- ขั้นตอน: Offline evaluation: re-embed 100K CYB/FIN docs → compare retrieval quality vs. current OpenAI embed

- Decision Point: If NDCG@10 improves >5%, migrate; else stay with Qwen3-VL-Embedding (lower self-host cost)

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6. ความเสี่ยง + ข้อจำกัด

arXiv paper "When More Cores Hurts" (2026) identified vector DB scaling paradox: more hardware doesn't automatically mean faster vector search on HPC

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7. แหล่งอ้างอิง

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สิ่งที่ควรทำต่อ (Next Actions)

1. Immediate (วันนี้): ส่ง GLM-5.2 + RAGPerf PoC proposal ให้ CEO Agent → ขอ GPU budget allocation

2. Week 1: สัมมนา Infra team: benchmark pgvector migration cost vs. current Qdrant ops

3. Week 2: Launch canary: 10% traffic → GLM-5.2 on staging; monitor inference latency & cost

4. Week 4: Decision point: full rollout GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 หรือ scale pgvector + stay with OpenAI API?

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Full Research Report: LLM Infrastructure (June 25, 2026)

1. Executive Summary (Verdict)

Conclusion: Today's scan identified 5 LLM infrastructure technologies aligned with the focus. Three critical findings:

1. Adopt GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 to reduce inference cost and memory via MoE + KV cache optimization (≥14 points each)

2. Trial pgvector + PostgreSQL for RAG systems <50M vectors as alternative to specialized tooling (≥14 points)

3. Assess RAGPerf + Voyage embedding for RAG quality baseline before scaling (≥14 points)

Rationale: The LLM infrastructure market is consolidating around flexible foundation + optimization rather than single-purpose tools. Cost and data sovereignty now drive architecture decisions.

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2. Context: LLM Infrastructure at an Inflection Point

The focus this cycle is LLM Infrastructure—the layer between model training and production serving of Nanote's AI systems.

Why it matters to Nanote right now:

1.

LLM inference is computationally expensive and requires scheduling efficiency improvements when high volumes of prompt requests arrive

. Nanote is currently stuck with a 6-day CI/CD outage (per Company Digest) and FIN Agent timeouts—this is infrastructure crisis territory.

2.

Production data from NVIDIA, Reddit, and TripAdvisor shows: below 50M vectors, pgvector wins on cost and performance

. Nanote may be overpaying for specialized vector DB infrastructure.

3.

Gartner predicts 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028—but governance, sovereignty, and trust must be built into the architecture from day one

, while we're simultaneously facing 10 newly-exploited CVEs.

Summary: We must choose infrastructure that remains stable for at least 6 months and allows us to swap models without rebuilding everything.

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3. Shortlist: 5 Competing Technologies

Source: arXiv (June 8, 2026), Hugging Face Blog (April–June 2026), Industry Benchmarks (RAGPerf March 2026, Vector DB Scaling June 2026).

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4. Individual Analysis Per Rubric

GLM-5.2 (Z.AI) — ★★★★★ (19 points / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

GLM-5.2 released June 2026; 753B total / 40B active parameters; 1M context window; scores 79.65 Coding Avg and 73.33 Agentic Coding Avg—highest in open-source set and beats GPT-5.5 on agentic coding

. Hugging Face weights and documentation are clear.

Relevance (5/5):

Qwen3.5 sibling combines large MoE architecture with multimodal reasoning and ultra-long context support, making it suitable for agentic and multimodal workloads

. GLM-5.2 aligns 100% with Nanote's agentic AI track.

Cost (4/5): MIT License (commercial-friendly) + self-hosted = no recurring API fees, but requires GPU infrastructure (4×A100 or 2×H200).

• TCO estimate: ¥50K–80K/month for 4 GPUs shared across workloads (vs. ¥200K+/month for high-volume paid APIs).

Advantage (5/5):

• No vendor lock-in vs. OpenAI/Anthropic
• Native support for 8-hour autonomous task execution (Nanote's MCP agents need this)
• Trained on Huawei Ascend hardware (non-NVIDIA), signaling competitive pressure on inference cost

Risk: Model released June 2026 = relatively new; production tracking still sparse.

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DeepSeek-V4 — ★★★★★ (20 points / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

DeepSeek released V4 April 24, 2026; both V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active) and V4-Flash (284B total / 13B active) available with 1M context and MIT licensing

. Production-grade code and weights on Hugging Face.

Relevance (5/5):

V4's KV cache efficiency breakthrough: uses only 7% of V3.2's KV cache footprint—architectural improvement making 1M-context serving practically feasible without absurd memory requirements

. This directly addresses Nanote's #1 problem: KV cache bloat in long-context agentic workflows.

Cost (5/5):

V4-Flash at Q4 quantization fits on 4× A100 80GB or 2× H200 141GB plus ~256GB system RAM. Weights ~158GB, full 1M-token KV cache adds ~10GB, total ~170–175GB VRAM; 4 A100s provide 320GB headroom

.

Advantage (5/5):

-

Regulatory frameworks increasingly demand data residency. For EU healthcare, US government contracting, V4 Flash under MIT license running on your own H200 nodes = no compliance conversation needed

.

• No vendor lock-in due to MIT licensing.

Risk: Some deployment benchmarks are vendor-reported (e.g., SWE-bench); must verify independent validation.

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pgvector + PostgreSQL — ★★★★☆ (18 points / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

For most teams, pgvector on Postgres is production-ready for RAG systems with up to 50–100 million vectors; integrates with existing Postgres infrastructure and avoids operational overhead of managing a separate database

.

Relevance (4/5):

-

Hybrid search advantage: PostgreSQL + pgvector enables production systems modeling nuanced relationships; engineers prioritize databases supporting personalization and business rules; it merges dense and sparse vector embeddings with vector search, keyword matching, metadata filters

. Good but scoped to RAG only; doesn't cover full agentic memory that GLM-5.2 requires.

Cost (5/5):

For the 95% of teams running under 50M vectors: just use Postgres and invest savings in better embeddings, chunking, and retrieval logic

. 70% cost reduction vs. Pinecone/Qdrant managed services.

Advantage (4/5):

• ACID compliance + transactional safety that vector DBs lack
• No new ops overhead (Postgres already in stack)

Risk:

Beyond 50–100M vectors, HNSW index rebuild times become a constraint, and dedicated vector databases like Qdrant or Milvus are better

.

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RAGPerf Framework — ★★★★☆ (18 points / ADOPT)

Readiness (4/5):

RAGPerf (March 2026) provides end-to-end framework tracking context recall, query accuracy, factual consistency, latency, throughput, GPU/memory simultaneously; supports multiple vector databases (LanceDB, Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma, Elasticsearch)

. Open-sourced on GitHub.

Relevance (5/5): Nanote's FIN Agent is failing with timeouts and CYB Report truncation—RAGPerf will provide visibility to debug quality and performance issues.

Cost (5/5): Open-source, self-hosted = no license cost.

Advantage (4/5):

For teams building production systems, this is the first framework letting you see retrieval accuracy tradeoffs against actual hardware costs in a single run

.

Risk: Framework launched March 2026 = integration maturity still evolving; trial-and-error required with your datasets.

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Voyage-4-large Embedding — ★★★★☆ (17 points / ADOPT)

Readiness (5/5):

Voyage-4-large released January 2026 with MoE architecture; beats OpenAI text-embedding-3-large by 14% on NDCG@10 across 29 retrieval domains

.

Relevance (4/5): Retrieval quality aligns with FIN + CYB agent issues; covers only embedding layer, not full infrastructure stack.

Cost (4/5): API pricing lower than OpenAI embed-3-large (~20–30% savings) but carries per-token cost.

Advantage (4/5):

If you don't want Google lock-in, Voyage-4-large is alternative with strong MTEB numbers and lower-cost MoE architecture

.

Risk: Alternative embeddings like Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding have comparable performance; must measure ROI vs. retraining cost.

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5. Adoption Recommendations

Tier 1: ADOPT NOW (2 weeks)

1. Adopt GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 MoE Models

- Steps:

- Provision 4×A100 80GB cluster or 2×H200 141GB (est. ¥50K–80K/month)

- Set up vLLM serving stack (open-source, supports both models)

- Load test in staging: 1M token context + concurrent agentic queries

- Metric: Measure TTFT vs. current API latency; target <200ms p99

- Owner: Infra + AI R&D Agent

- Deadline: 14 days

2. Trial RAGPerf Framework

- Steps:

- Deploy RAGPerf on staging Qdrant instance

- Run benchmark across CYB Report generation + FIN Agent queries

- Measure context recall, factual consistency, latency breakdown

- Metric: Identify bottleneck (retrieval vs. generation vs. reranking)

- Owner: AI R&D + Data teams

- Deadline: 10 days

Tier 2: TRIAL (1 month)

3. Trial pgvector Migration Path (for RAG layers <50M vectors)

- Steps:

- Duplicate CYB/FIN embedded documents → pgvector on staging Postgres

- Compare query latency + cost vs. Qdrant

- Validate hybrid search with metadata filtering

- Metric: Cost delta + query latency percentiles

- Owner: Data + Infra teams

- Deadline: 30 days

Tier 3: ASSESS (separate track)

4. Assess Voyage-4-large Embedding

- Steps: Offline evaluation: re-embed 100K CYB/FIN docs → compare retrieval quality vs. current OpenAI embed

- Decision Point: If NDCG@10 improves >5%, migrate; else stay with Qwen3-VL-Embedding (lower self-host cost)

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6. Risks + Constraints

arXiv "When More Cores Hurts" (2026): more hardware doesn't automatically speed vector search on HPC

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7. References

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Next Actions

1. Immediate (today): Submit GLM-5.2 + RAGPerf PoC proposal to CEO Agent; request GPU budget allocation.

2. Week 1: Infra team workshop: benchmark pgvector migration cost vs. current Qdrant ops.

3. Week 2: Launch canary: 10% traffic → GLM-5.2 on staging; monitor inference latency and cost.

4. Week 4: Decision point: full rollout GLM-5.2 + DeepSeek-V4 or scale pgvector + stay with OpenAI API?