Kojo Osei · 29 September 2026 · Additional Read

Not all inference is text generation

Kojo Osei

Not all AI inference tasks need text generation. Classification, ranking, and constrained-output problems are being inefficiently shoehorned into autoregressive LLMs; specialized model shapes optimized for specific output types will fragment the inference market along a new dimension beyond cost-versus-intelligence.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · AI Infrastructure

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