Mastering the 600B+ Frontier: Optimizing Large Model Deployments on the Inference Cloud

We have moved past the point where a 70GB model was considered “heavy.” With the rise of models like DeepSeek-V3 , the GLM series, and other massive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, the industry is now grappling with weights exceeding 700GB in optimized formats—and well over 1.2TB in full precision. And parameters keep climbing— Epoch’s AI data tracks frontier models now reaching into the trillions of parameters, with no sign of plateau. At this scale, “Data Gravity” isn’t just a metaphor; it is a structural bottleneck.