Menu

Post image 1
Post image 2
1 / 2
0

2026.20: Shifting Alliances in a Changing World

Stratechery by Ben Thompson·Stratechery by Ben Thompson·17 days ago
#TbQxTsnS
#sharp#inference#week#china#article#audio
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone . Additionally, you have complete control over what we send to you. If you don’t want to receive This Week in Stratechery emails (there is no podcast), please uncheck the box in your delivery settings . On that note, here were a few of our favorites this week. A New Kind of Computing . AI compute has been divided into two categories: training, and inference. However, in The Inference Shift (and on this week’s Sharp Tech ), I make the case that there are two kinds of inference: the one we know today is “answer inference”, where humans are in the loop, and speed matters; the inference that will matter most in the future, at least in terms of market size, will be “agentic inference”, where humans aren’t involved at all.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More