Comment by sanderjd

I think the article's analysis is basically right in a vacuum. That is, I think it's clear that inference is a viable business model. But what isn't clear is whether it will be such a profitable business model for any given company that it will justify the investment that company has taken. I kind of think the winners might be a follow-on generation of companies that focus on this commodity inference business model instead of the invent-machine-god-first "business model" and thus are wiser about their level of investment and capital costs.