‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips
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The Rebellions CEO arguing that training and inference “need different physics” reflects a broader shift toward specialized inference silicon as its own market. Cloud and infra teams should start modeling separate vendor strategies and cost curves for training clusters versus inference fleets instead of assuming one GPU class fits both.
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