inference

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Meanwhile, Intel’s server CPUs are seeing surging interest amid an industry shift toward inference, or the process of running artificial-intelligence models.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

“Enterprises, governments, and neocloud providers are racing to build AI factories, as platforms scale to power the next generation of inference workloads,” Penguins Solutions CEO Kash Shaikh said in the earnings release.

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

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

The distinction between two very different types of inference, between vestiges and analogies, is still important for Locke.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton