Lowering the cost of inference is typically a combination of hardware and software. A new analysis released Thursday by Nvidia details how four leading inference providers are reporting 4x to 10x ...
Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should ...
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million ...
Lotteries are hard to win. The odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are so tiny that, as a CNN commenter once put it, you have a better chance of becoming an astronaut, dating a supermodel, and ...
When you ask an artificial intelligence (AI) system to help you write a snappy social media post, you probably don’t mind if it takes a few seconds. If you want the AI to render an image or do some ...
If the hyperscalers are masters of anything, it is driving scale up and driving costs down so that a new type of information technology can be cheap enough so it can be widely deployed. The ...
Inference is rapidly emerging as the next major frontier in artificial intelligence (AI). Historically, the AI development and deployment focus has been overwhelmingly on training with approximately ...
An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds. Its towering mast made it more vulnerable. By Jeffrey Gettleman and James ...