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QUOKKA AI · Sydney

Technology

What runs today, and what has been measured on NVIDIA GPUs.

The public site, the CMS, and the API are running now: Nuxt 4, Vue 3, ThinkPHP 8, MySQL 8.4. NVIDIA GPU inference has been measured on AWS. Public MindLog and Pulse demos still call a hosted API. This page keeps those facts apart.

Running today, and the layers the first MVP still needs.

Multi-agent products — in design

Surfaces for life replay, scoring, and generative worlds. MindLog and Pulse are the first two, both in early build.

Orchestration architecture

Roles, handoffs, memory, and protocols designed in-house — not left to a single chat turn. This is the current build focus.

NVIDIA GPU inference — measured

Measured on AWS g4dn.xlarge in Sydney (NVIDIA Tesla T4, 16GB) with CUDA and vLLM. Model: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ. On-demand, not a 24/7 inference cluster. No private training cluster, now or planned. Larger G5/G6 instances when Sydney capacity allows.

CUDA · vLLM — in use

Serving path measured for the MVP: CUDA with vLLM 0.27.1. TensorRT and Triton are not in use. NVIDIA NIM and NeMo are not in use.

Memory and retrieval — planned

Embeddings and durable state to keep generation anchored in what just happened. Session and content state today sit on MySQL.

Agent orchestration — in build

Planning, tool use, handoffs, and recovery for long-running work. This is what is being written right now.

Evaluation harness

Automated Playwright smoke suites already gate the site, CMS, and API on every change. Product scoring, replay, and safety suites land with the runtime.

Real-time experience — measured on T4

On T4 with vLLM: first token ~34 ms; ~35 tokens/s on a single stream; ~139 tokens/s at batch 4. Public demos still use a hosted API.

Architecture: what runs today, what is targeted

Where the work is, and what is still ahead

In-house orchestration

How work is split, how agents collaborate, and how state is remembered — designed and built in-house. This is the current build.

GPU cost discipline

Batching, KV-cache reuse, and vLLM keep T4 cost inside a product budget. We do not sell or resell GPU hours.

Real-time latency

Measured on T4 with vLLM: first token ~34 ms. Public product demos still stream from a hosted API.

Evaluation discipline

Automated smoke suites already gate the public site, CMS, and API. Product scoring, replay, and safety gates arrive with the runtime.

Product safety

Guardrails, review paths, and constraints designed into the runtime as it is built.

Trace flywheel — planned

Capture and curate production traces once products serve real sessions, then feed them back into the next orchestration pass.