Top Use Cases for Fast AI
The Future of AI
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
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
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