State Space Models in Production: Jamba-3 vs Transformers for Infinite Context Agent Loops in 2026
Transformers hit the O(N²) attention wall at 128K+ tokens, making long-running agent loops economically impossible. Jamba-3's hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture achieves O(N) attention with 1M+ token context, reducing inference costs by 87% for multi-step agent trajectories in this production benchmark.