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Inference serves an already trained model in response to requests. Training updates model parameters. The workloads have different latency, utilization and cost constraints.

Idle accelerator capacity still costs money. Scheduling, batching and matching hardware to demand can change serving economics without changing the underlying model.

It is the delay while capacity and model weights are prepared for a request. Evaluate it separately from response time once a deployment is warm.

A financing amount describes capital raised. It is not a disclosure of revenue, customer spending or gross margin.

Model quality, latency targets, context length, throughput and reliability affect the practical cost of serving an application.

Use representative traffic and measure tail latency, failures, scaling behavior and total cost under realistic concurrency.