Top Use Cases for Fast AI

The Future of AI

Vasanth Mohan | 4 min

Description

Explore how AI has evolved from simple prompt-and-response to agentic systems and beyond, and understand the Pareto curve that defines the "Goldilocks zone" where SambaNova's hardware delivers the fast inference speeds and high system throughput that the next wave of agentic AI demands.

Additional Resources

Blog: Trends shaping the future of AI
Blog: Inference at scale
Blog: Inference speed vs throughput
Product: RDU 

Why Agents Need Fast Inference

Vasanth Mohan | 3 min

Description

Understand why fast inference is foundational to agentic AI: agents are sequences of LLM calls that branch into parallel subagents, tool calls, and planning loops, and compressing what could be a many-hour task down to minutes requires inference speed that can only be optimized at the hardware level.

Additional Resources

Blog: AI inference
Blog: Why agentic inference needs hybrid hardware
Blog: Inference speed vs throughput
Product: RDU
Product: Agentic AI

The Value of Dedicated Infrastructure

Vasanth Mohan | 3 min

Description

Learn why dedicated AI infrastructure unlocks capabilities that serverless inference providers can't offer, including the ability to optimize beyond the Goldilocks zone, configure hardware for your specific use case, and take advantage of SambaNova's agentic caching for prompt and model caching to maximize utilization and reduce TCO.

Additional Resources

Blog: Why agentic inference needs hybrid hardware
Blog: SN50 RDU for agentic inference
Product: SambaStack

← Previous video
Next video →
LESSONS
  • 2 min
  • 3 min
  • 3 min
← Back to main page