Inference pushes AI out of the data center

How a controversial tech from the 2000s could transform AI to make it cheaper, faster and almost indestructible.
InfoQ

Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Randy Shoup discusses the "Velocity Initiative," a transformation that doubled engineering productivity and modernized eBay’s DORA metrics. He shares the technical playbook used to scale 4,500 ...
EDN

The truth about AI inference costs: Why cost-per-token isn’t what it seems

The AI industry has converged on a deceptively simple metric: cost per token. It’s easy to understand, easy to compare, and easy to market. Every new system promises to drive it lower. Charts show ...
Forbes

AI Inference Takes Center Stage At KubeCon Europe 2026

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam made one thing clear. Kubernetes is no ...
InfoWorld

Google targets AI inference bottlenecks with TurboQuant

Google says its new TurboQuant method could improve how efficiently AI models run by compressing the key-value cache used in LLM inference and supporting more efficient vector search. In tests on ...
Network World

Nvidia targets inference as AI’s next battleground with Groq 3 LPX

The company says its new architecture marks a shift from training-focused infrastructure to systems optimized for continuous, low-latency enterprise AI workloads. 2026 is predicted to be the year that ...
Wall Street Journal

What Is Inference? Explaining the Massive New Shift in AI Computing

A significant shift is under way in artificial intelligence, and it has huge implications for technology companies big and small. For the past half-decade, most of the focus in AI has been on training ...
SiliconANGLE

New memory architecture targets AI inference bottlenecks

Lightbits Labs Ltd. today is introducing a new architecture aimed at addressing one of the most stubborn bottlenecks in large-scale artificial intelligence inference: the growing mismatch between the ...
The Motley Fool

Forget AI Training: AI Inference Is the Real Money Maker in 2026. Here Are 2 Stocks to Own.

Inference will take over for training as the primary AI compute moving forward. Broadcom has struck gold with its custom ASICs for AI hyperscalers. Arm Holdings should benefit immensely as inference ...
VentureBeat

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a ...
VentureBeat

AI inference costs dropped up to 10x on Nvidia's Blackwell — but hardware is only half the equation

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 ...