LOTA cache performance advantage over third-party storage
Company: CoreWeave
The claim, verbatim
CoreWeave's LOTA cache provides 1.88x faster model loading compared to third-party object storage
Source (primary)
Video Captioning at Scale: 600 TB in 95 Minutes | CoreWeave Blog - CoreWeave (-, news_article)
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Quote: “That's 1.88x faster than third-party object storage and 1.28x faster than a cold read from CoreWeave AI Object Storage”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The post states that model loading served from the LOTA local cache was 1.88x faster than third-party object storage.
Confirmed in the source:
- With the LOTA cache, model loading was 1.88x faster than third-party object storage
- The measurement was for loading the 17 GB Qwen3-VL model
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.coreweave.com/blog/video-captioning-at-scale-600-tb-in-95-minutes-with-anyscale-on-coreweave) in full (16,024 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Video Captioning at Scale: 600 TB in 95 Minutes | CoreWeave Blog - CoreWeave
Quote: “That's 1.88x faster than third-party object storage and 1.28x faster than a cold read from CoreWeave AI Object Storage”