Replicate, RunPod, and the Commoditization of Inference

You want to run Llama 3. You don't want to set up a server. You don't want to manage GPUs. You don't want to deal with scaling. You want to run it now. You go to Replicate. You paste your prompt. You click "Run." It costs a fraction of a cent. It returns in seconds. You are not running the model. You are renting the inference. This is the commoditization of inference. Replicate, RunPod, and others are making AI inference accessible to everyone. They are turning inference into a utility. This is…