DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services
Source: SiliconANGLE (opens in a new tab) · Duncan Riley
Intel Summary
Chinese AI firm Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework powering its production workloads. The release focuses on reducing the infrastructure costs associated with serving large AI models to large user bases.
Why It Matters
Making production-grade serving infrastructure available under an open-source model gives engineers and infrastructure teams alternative frameworks to address high inference costs and scalability constraints when deploying large models.
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