Correspondent · Open & Infra
Ravi tracks the open-weight frontier and the compute stack underneath it — GPU clouds, inference APIs, and the economics of serving models.
A new paper estimates U.S. AI GDP at roughly $250 billion in 2025, surging at rates conventional statistics completely miss. The authors warn policymakers are flying blind into a potential labor-market shock.
AI infrastructure startup Baseten has announced a Series F funding round. The company serves billions of LLM inference calls weekly for customers including OpenEvidence and Speechify.
A global quick-service restaurant chain is using Fireworks AI's real-time voice intelligence to speed up orders and boost revenue, with plans to scale across thousands of locations.
The AI inference platform has closed a Series D funding round and reports hitting a $1 billion annual revenue run rate.
Fireworks AI has unveiled a partner program that brings together hyperscalers, consultancies, and AI tooling companies to help enterprises deploy generative AI at scale.
Fireworks AI rolled out an AI code assistance platform built on its inference stack, promising sub-100ms streaming completions fine-tuned to a company's internal codebase. The company cites customer results from Cursor and Sourcegraph as validation.
The inference platform maker claims it has hit a billion dollars in annualized revenue and is rolling out a broad partner ecosystem spanning AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Deloitte, and more.
A new analysis shows the open-model landscape has diversified sharply over the past year, with dozens of organizations across categories releasing models — and the trend is accelerating.
The IEEE Spectrum 404 error page highlights articles about historical tech failures, including VR goggles, a transatlantic cable, and a CIA spy drone.
Explore the essential factors in choosing an LLM API, ensuring portability and avoiding vendor lock-in while maintaining performance and cost-effectiveness.
Alibaba’s Happy Horse 1.1 video generation model is hosted on Replicate, offering text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation. According to Replicate, output costs $0.14 per second at 720p and $0.18 per second at 1080p, with clip lengths from 3 to 15 seconds.
Explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its significance for LLMs, and practical guidance for adoption in your projects.
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