Serving 5 Trillion AI Tokens a Week: Inside DeepInfra with Nikola Borisov

DeepInfra (https://deepinfra.com/) is serving over 5 trillion tokens a week and just closed a major raise backed by NVIDIA. In this episode of Pale Blue Nexus, host Yohann Calpu sits down with co-founder Nikola Borisov to unpack how DeepInfra is challenging the hyperscalers on price, why he compares inference optimization to Formula 1, and what the future of open source AI looks like.

Nikola shares the technical playbook behind DeepInfra's aggressive pricing (including the famous Mixtral moment), how quantization and KV caching drive efficiency, the company's deepening partnership with NVIDIA on the Dynamo project, and why he believes the real demand for AI infrastructure is just getting started.

We also get into the harder questions: prompt injection risks, the NemoClaw security model, hardware depreciation cycles, and what's actually overrated in today's AI infrastructure boom.

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