Vamshi Ambati
The Neon Show
94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
- Published
- June 9, 2026
- Duration
- 51:56
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 23, 2026
Discusses inference.
Summary
Vamshi Ambati has spent more than two decades in AI, through the symbolic era, statistical era, and the neural wave we're experiencing today. A CMU PhD, founder of LatentStructure and Predera (which was acquired), now an investor at Virama Ventures, he's one of the sharper voices on what's actually happening under the hood of the AI boom.We discuss a simp…
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Vamshi Ambati has spent more than two decades in AI, through the symbolic era, statistical era, and the neural wave we're experiencing today. A CMU PhD, founder of LatentStructure and Predera (which was acquired), now an investor at Virama Ventures, he's one of the sharper voices on what's actually happening under the hood of the AI boom.We discuss a simple question: Who wins when models become cheaper and more abundant? And try to answer this by looking at how inference spend v/s compute spend
Themes
- inference