Scale VP · 12 November 2026 · Industry Analysis

Inference providers have their heads in the clouds

Scale VP

Inference providers compete in a thin-margin compute commodity today, but the few that execute AWS's playbook—cutting prices on raw GPUs while climbing the stack to sell higher-value products like fine-tuning and custom model serving—could build durable, high-margin businesses with real customer lock-in.

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