Inference is better at the edge
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“Inference wasn’t very centralized. Inference is a lot more flexible when it comes to deployment. I would argue that it’s better when it’s at the edge. So getting access to edge resources with a common set of rules in a protocol is significantly better than having a centralized coordination layer.” — 00:16:13
Context: Rebutting the moderator’s premise that compute inherently centralizes; he separates inference (edge-friendly) from training (communication-heavy, fault-intolerant, serialized).