The Strange Economics of LLM Inference-as-a-Service, Explained
bycloud · youtube · 2026-09-30
bycloud's deep-dive video explains the billion-dollar business of LLM inference-as-a-service: how providers profit serving open-source models by being faster, cheaper, and at massive scale. Sources include DeepSeek's open-infra-index and a Prefill-as-a-Service paper.
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