#379 The Secrets of Deploying AI in Production | Sumti Jairath, Chief Architect at SambaNova

AI agents are moving from demos into production, but many teams run into the same wall: responses that take too long and cost too much. As models grow bigger and reason through more steps before answering, every chained agent adds delay, and that adds up fast at scale. For data and AI professionals, this raises a practical question: how do you pick a model and an inference platform that keeps a multi-agent workflow fast without blowing the budget? And underneath that choice sits a bigger one — how much of the AI stack, from chips to software, should a company actually control? Sumti Jairath is