How AI Inference Costs Are Reshaping The Cloud Economy

The shift from training-focused to inference-focused economics is fundamentally restructuring cloud computing and forcing ...

Co-founders behind Reface and Prisma join hands to improve on-device model inference with Mirai

Mirai raised a $10 million seed to improve how AI models run on devices like smartphones and laptops.

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

These speed gains are substantial. At 256K context lengths, Qwen 3.5 decodes 19 times faster than Qwen3-Max and 7.2 times ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and ...
Business Wire

Vultr Launches Cloud Inference to Simplify Model Deployment and Automatically Scale AI Applications Globally

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, today announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference. This new serverless platform ...
Network World

Nvidia claims 10x cost savings with open-source inference models

Nvidia noted that cost per token went from 20 cents on the older Hopper platform to 10 cents on Blackwell. Moving to ...
ZDNet

Nvidia doubles down on AI language models and inference as a substrate for the Metaverse, in data centers, the cloud and at the edge

Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of ...