Public Release - 2026-07-24
Artifact: active_compute_cost_sheet_v1. This cost sheet separates a model-size headline from the runtime resources used by a real task. Its accounting structure is real_cost = active_compute + routing + communication + activation_memory + idle_capacity.
Accounting
Total parameters describe one architectural scale. They do not state how many parameters are active for a task, how much memory peaks during execution, how long distributed workers wait, or how many accepted tasks the system completes per unit of energy and time.
Runtime
The cost sheet records real_cost = active_compute + routing + communication + activation_memory + idle_capacity. Routing and sparse experts can reduce active compute while communication, memory, replication, retry, and idle-capacity costs remain material at the task level.
Boundary
The public example is bounded to one mixture-of-experts model and a specific software and hardware environment. This sheet does not guarantee another model's performance or cost, predict electricity prices, or replace workload-specific measurement of throughput, retries, memory, and energy per task.
The full parameter count represented by the model architecture and stored weights.
The subset of parameters activated for the measured token, request, or task path.
The storage footprint for weights, formats, replicas, and required runtime copies.
The maximum activation-memory demand observed under the stated workload and batch.
The measured delay from routing, synchronization, transfer, and distributed execution.
Completed tasks per unit time under a declared workload, quality threshold, and retry policy.
Energy consumed per accepted task result, including retries and relevant idle capacity.