inference

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Only a tiny sliver of ChatGPT’s users pay for the service, meaning that OpenAI doesn’t generate revenue for a large chunk of its inference costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The next phase of AI is set to be dominated by inference, the process of running AI models, and its application to the new wave of AI applications known as agents.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Cognitive scientists have investigated whether the brain itself is Bayesian—a probabilistic inference engine, perpetually recalibrating, merging incoming sensory data with past experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

It isn’t as cheap as Nvidia, but it is arguably positioned well as we move toward more inference computing.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“Difference, inference, interference. You’ve interfered with the order of things is what I’m saying. You should have left it the way it was. I liked this place when it was wood.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman