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AI inference demand surges as training slowdown talk fades

digitimes.com · 3hShare

Calls to slow frontier AI model training have sparked debate across the AI semiconductor industry, but executives at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, California, said the real buildout is aimed at AI inference, not training. The event, held from September 15 to 17, became a broad response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12 essay urging frontier AI labs to slow the pace of capability gains.

First report: Why AI inference must become a commodity — siliconangle.com, 1d