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Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

2026-01-22 · 44 min · episode 1021 · 16 entities

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    Link in episode "Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI": https://twitter.com/simon_mo_
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    Link in episode "Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI": https://twitter.com/woosuk_k
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Episode description as stored
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference layer that makes large AI models faster, cheaper, and more reliable to run across any hardware, model architecture, or deployment environment. Together, they broke down how modern AI models are actually run in production, why “inference” has quietly become one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure, and how the open-source project vLLM emerged to solve it. The conversation also looked at why the vLLM team started Inferact and their vision for a universal inference layer that can run any model, on any chip, efficiently. Follow Matt Bornstein on X: https://twitter.com/BornsteinMatt Follow Simon Mo on X: https://twitter.com/simon_mo_ Follow Woosuk Kwon on X: https://twitter.com/woosuk_k Follow vLLM on X: https://twitter.com/vllm_project Stay Updated: Find a16z on YouTube: YouTube Find a16z on X Find a16z on LinkedIn Listen to the a16z Show on Spotify Listen to the a16z Show on Apple Podcasts Follow our host: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.