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Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

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Re: Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

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It would certainly be interesting to have a highly respected EU-native inference provider, if only to make the regulatory gods happy

IONOS (1&1) also offers inference hosted in europe/germany: https://cloud.ionos.com/managed/ai-model-hub

No Qwen 3.6? Why?

Re: Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no "West" anymore, at least not in the sense it was used in the last 50–70 years. There is now Europe/Canada/Australia on the one side, and the USA as an adversary on the other, and that won't change in the foreseeable time. What we need is frontier open weight models in the EU, Canada, and Australia.

Give it two years more then it changes again.

It won't. That's the point many people don't seem to get: The people who wanted everything that is happening now don't just go away. There is no guarantee they won't vote for a narcissistic grifter again, and thus any long-term decisions building on mutual trust and stability can't be made. How could you justify investing into a factory that relies on a 20 year ROI window when tariffs could be changing every day? Why would you want to use an AI model that could be restricted to US citizens or taken away entirely without notice?

Big, slow wheels have turned everywhere around the world. They won't turn back so easily.

Re: Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

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This is interesting because I thought Hetzner was anti-crypto? LLMs aren't the same but they're often lumped in with crypto as "things no one wants."

Who lumps LLMs with crypto? The former has actual usage and purpose, the latter doesn't. Anyone who does must think any new technology is all the same.

Re: Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

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Scaleway have two separate (one fully managed one a bit less) services for that: https://www.scaleway.com/en/generative-apis/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/inference/

yea, but no prompt caching right? This makes it unusable for my usecase at least, the cost would be insane

They confirmed on LinkedIn that they are working on it.

Also, they have a feature request that has been getting many votes recently: https://feature-request.scaleway.com/posts/1251/prompt-cachi...

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