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

Today, Mirai is developing a framework for models so they can perform better on devices. The company has built an inference ...

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

Taalas has launched an AI accelerator that puts the entire AI model into silicon, delivering 1-2 orders of magnitude greater ...
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 ...

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 ...
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 ...

Alibaba unveils Qwen-3.5, sharpening global race to spread AI models

With multimodal capabilities and open weights, Qwen-3.5 signals Alibaba's ambition to anchor the next phase of global AI ...
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 ...