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  "title": "The Frontier AI Inference Cloud for Agents — Byung-Gon (Gon) Chun, FriendliAI",
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    "meaning": "This strengthens the case that agent inference should be optimized as a stateful, end-to-end workload rather than isolated requests. It extends prior cache-aware routing evidence with hierarchical KV storage and task-aware scheduling, while keeping the same qualification: locality must be balanced against load and validated on real traffic, not accepted from provider comparisons alone.",
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