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The first step is to acquire hardware fast enough to run one query quickly (and yes, for some model size you are looking at sharding the model and distributed runs). The next one is to batch request, improving GPU use significantly.

Take a look at vLLM for an open source solution that is pretty close to the state of the art as far as handling many user queries:https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/