Tewari: AI Inference Is Glance's Largest Operating Cost
Naveen Tewari · He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari · Jul 3, 2026 · at 1:01:17
Naveen Tewari, founder of Glance and InMobi, breaks down the unit economics of scaling consumer AI applications.
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“In the world of AI, as we launch Glance, what is our biggest cost? Our biggest cost is inference cost. Every interaction that you do with Glance and try to find, use the intelligence of Glance to search for products and to look for product, there is an inference cost.”
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