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The Hidden Bottleneck That Determines Whether AI Is Affordable

NVIDIA's open-source Inference Transfer Library targets the data-transfer bottleneck that drives AI compute costs. Learn why infrastructure matters.

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NVIDIA has released an open-source library designed to fix the data-transfer problem that slows and inflates the cost of running large AI models across multiple GPUs. The library itself is not the story. The bottleneck it addresses is.

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