DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.

Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV ...
Tech Times

AI Inference and World Model Startups Pull $1.8B in Two Days as Foundation Models Commoditize

AI inference infrastructure investment pulled $1.8 billion in 48 hours as Baseten’s $1.5B round at a $13B valuation and ...
GitHub

AICL-Lab/mini-inference-engine

Performance vs cuBLAS (RTX 3080, 1024×1024) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ L1 Naive ...
Nasdaq

DigitalOcean Launches Inference Engine with New Capabilities for Production AI, Including Inference Router for Efficient Scaling of Agentic Workloads

Built alongside early design partners, the Inference Engine gives AI developers unified control over performance, cost, and scale — with customers reporting up to 67% lower inference costs. Inference ...
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 ...
TopSpeed

The Japanese Six-Cylinder Engine That Refused To Be Replaced

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...
Forbes

AWS And Microsoft Are Borrowing What Google Already Built

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover emerging technologies with a focus on infrastructure and AI This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Wall Street Journal

Amazon Announces Inference Chips Deal With Cerebras

Amazon Web Services plans to deploy processors designed by Cerebras inside its data centers, the latest vote of confidence in the startup, which specializes in chips that power artificial-intelligence ...
VentureBeat

The team behind continuous batching says your idle GPUs should be running inference, not sitting dark

Every GPU cluster has dead time. Training jobs finish, workloads shift and hardware sits dark while power and cooling costs keep running. For neocloud operators, those empty cycles are lost margin.
The Next Platform

Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference

Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, turbocharges AI inference, as has been shown time and again by AI upstarts ...