Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...

The $643M Eigen AI deal directly upgrades Nebius’s inference efficiency via Eigen’s optimization stack, strengthening its ...

Roman Chernin is the CBO and cofounder of AI infrastructure company Nebius. His career spans over 20 years in the tech industry. Every major advance in AI begins with model training, but the ...

Nebius pays $643M for Eigen AI, a 20-person MIT spinout that maximises tokens per GPU. In the neocloud race, inference optimisation is the competitive edge.

You train the model once, but you run it every day. Making sure your model has business context and guardrails to guarantee reliability is more valuable than fussing over LLMs. We’re years into the ...

“I get asked all the time what I think about training versus inference – I'm telling you all to stop talking about training versus inference.” So declared OpenAI VP Peter Hoeschele at Oracle’s AI ...

Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it ...

The centralized mega-cluster narrative is seductive – but physics, community resistance, and enterprise pragmatism are conspiring to scatter AI compute across a distributed lattice of specialized ...