Too many inference providers, too little demand: a developer's take
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-31
Developer thdxr observes that the market is flooded with LLM inference providers: each has acquired some compute but nothing significant, and most are neither particularly good at inference nor capable of directly generating demand — making much of it a waste.
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