Agentic Inference Systems: CUDA Moat, TCO Trade-offs, and Hardware Diversity

Serving advances are increasingly specialized around decoding, routing, sparsity, and runtime orchestration. SparseDecoding reports 1.48x A100 end-to-end speedup, while TokenRouter reports 2.01–64.15x decoding-throughput gains for token-level routing; portability, quality, sustained throughput, power, and end-to-end TCO still need validation.