Full speed ahead: Despite calls to slow AI down, its support structure is on the fast track

While tech titans at Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco this week engaged in a spirited debate over whether the pace of deployment for artificial intelligence should be slowed, a group of high-powered tech experts were meeting at the same time about an hour’s drive south to describe how they were building AI’s infrastructure as fast as possible. At the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, technologists from companies such as Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Broadcom, Qualcomm and d-Matrix, outlined how they were hard at work to optimize infrastructure for the ever-increasing demands of AI. The challenges surrounding the technology are becoming clearer with every passing day. AI is power-hungry and a voracious memory consumer, and the cost of tokens is currently spiraling out of control for many enterprises. “Tokens per watt has become the new…