Million-Token Machine, Part 2: The Architecture

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 10, 2026 · 1h 3m

Part two of Million-Token Machine moves from the KV cache to the model's overall floor plan. Mixture-of-experts designs, specialist routing and load balancing explain how a large network can distribute its work. The episode also examines encoder-decoder ideas and a multimodal pathway, relating those choices to efficiency and robustness. The focus is understanding architectural mechanisms and their boundaries before the final part turns to training and deployment at scale.

Created by Sankalp Thakur. A Transient Labs production.

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