AI Inference at the Edge: Beyond the Hype

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AI inference at the edge faces concrete limits: GPUs are scarce and costly, models drift so fast some teams push weekly model updates, and only 11% in production report full-scale edge deployments after two years. Kubernetes powers about half the users but needs GPU-aware orchestration and immutable upgrades across OS to app layers. A claimed management plane runs 10,000+ clusters, offers centralized GPU utilization, integrates with Nvidia and GPU operators, and exposes Pallet and PalletAI for model and inferencing rollout.

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