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What Is AI Inference?

June 16, 2026 6 MIN

As enterprise agents move from experimentation to production, we believe AI inference is becoming one of the most important impactful drivers of software economics. Every action an agent takes requires compute, and as usage scales, so do inference costs. The companies that lead in the agentic era will be the ones that manage the cost of inference and run AI efficiently at scale. 

In this video, Lily Perez, Operating Senior Vice President, explains the difference between AI inference vs training and why AI inference infrastructure is emerging as a critical layer of the AI stack. She explores how purpose-built infrastructure, open-weight models and new inference technologies can improve performance and help enterprises deploy enterprise agents more profitably.

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