Blog Cloud Distributed AI Inferencing — The Next Generation of Computing Vineeth Varughese is the Cloud Product Marketing Lead in Asia-Pacific and Japan at Akamai with vast expertise in cloud computing, AI, and GTM strategy. The pendulum is swinging from AI training toward AI inference. In 2024, we witnessed an unprecedented explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, leaving many people in awe of the rapid advancements. Tech behemoths raced to secure the most powerful GPUs to train even more capable large language models (LLMs), and now AI is seamlessly entering into every nook and cranny of the world as we know it. \r\n Amid the whirlwind of new AI companies, models, and applications, one trend emerged with clarity — the pendulum is swinging from AI training toward AI inference . Bloomberg suggests that AI inference will grow into a US$1.3 trillion market by 2032 , which is echoed by a number of other recent reports.…