I’m always willing to build a career in AI/ML infra. Usually when talking about AI infra in tech industry, we refer to training infra, serving infra, model deployment etc.
Now with this genAI/LLM wave, I find many NLP specific infrastructure such as semantic indexing, vector databases are quickly rising up. So do semantic indexing/vector databases also count as AI infra? And is it a promising field?
I see these as the equivalent of selling picks and shovels in a gold rush. Good thing is that you won’t need to bet on any particular vertical or application, which is always hard for novel technologies. Bad thing is infra is usually not where most of the value generation/capture happens.