Exploring Performance Advances in Mixture of Experts AI Models on NVIDIA Blackwell
Understanding the Growth in AI Model Usage As AI models become increasingly capable, their applications spread across various domains. From everyday consumers seeking assistance to enterprises automating complex tasks, interaction with AI systems is growing rapidly. This expansion creates a higher demand for generating tokens — the fundamental units of AI language output — to support diverse tasks efficiently. The Challenge of Scaling Token Throughput Handling a larger volume of token generation presents a significant challenge for AI platforms. Achieving high throughput at minimal cost is critical to maintain responsiveness and affordability. The ability to process many tokens swiftly influences how well AI tools can serve users’ increasing expectations. Mixture of Experts: A Promising AI Architecture Among emerging AI designs, the mixture of experts (MoE) model stands out. This architecture divides a large neural network into multiple specialized sub-networks, or "exp...