AI inference
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 29, 2026 by Demis Hassabis · across every show →
Everything said about AI inference, oldest first
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Hassabis doubts inference will ever be free due to Jevons' paradox
“Yeah, I'm not sure inference will ever be essentially free. I mean, there's sort of Jevon's paradox and other things about like, I think we'll just end up using All of us will end up using whatever we can get our hands on, and you could imagine millions of age…”
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
Hassabis: Chip manufacturing will bottleneck AI inference for decades
“Certainly the energy, if we solve fusion or, you know, superconductors or, you know, optimal batteries or some set of those things, which I think we will do with material science, energy costs will be essentially zero, but there'll still be the physical creati…”
Jul 29, 2026 positive
Smulyanski: AI inference demands heterogeneous hardware co-designed for different phases
“Inference Is a very heterogeneous workload, right? Different phases of inference exercise, compute, network, storage, memory bandwidths differently, and so when we look at it makes sense to actually co-design the systems that will opt to, you know, use differe…”