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

“The question is no longer whether it can dominate the training boom; it is whether it can stay central as AI spending broadens into inference, orchestration, and more customized compute.”

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

As focus shifts more to inference, or the process of running AI models after training, interest in central processing units for data-center servers has soared in recent months.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

The inference being that failure was coming, that it was inevitable, that it had already half arrived.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama