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Feb 4, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Second Sword: Accelerating LLM Inference with Speculative Decoding and Cascades

The article analyzes Google’s shift from scaling‑law to efficiency‑law, detailing how speculative decoding, language‑model cascades, distillation, CALM, accurate quantized training, and the Mixture‑of‑Recursions architecture together form a multi‑layered strategy to cut inference cost, boost throughput, and sustain the company’s AI moat.