The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million ...

Google researchers have warned that large language model (LLM) inference is hitting a wall amid fundamental problems with memory and networking problems, not compute. In a paper authored by ...

Abstract: This article introduces a scalable distributed probabilistic inference algorithm for intelligent sensor networks, tackling challenges of continuous variables, intractable posteriors, and ...

You train the model once, but you run it every day. Making sure your model has business context and guardrails to guarantee reliability is more valuable than fussing over LLMs. We’re years into the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Variational AI, the company behind Enki™, an advanced foundation model for small molecule drug discovery, today ...

Merck & Co. has doubled down on its partnership with Variational AI, striking a deal worth up to $349 million to collaborate on small molecule candidates against two targets. Variational disclosed a ...

If the hyperscalers are masters of anything, it is driving scale up and driving costs down so that a new type of information technology can be cheap enough so it can be widely deployed. The ...

As frontier models move into production, they're running up against major barriers like power caps, inference latency, and rising token-level costs, exposing the limits of traditional scale-first ...

AI inference uses trained data to enable models to make deductions and decisions. Effective AI inference results in quicker and more accurate model responses. Evaluating AI inference focuses on speed, ...