Interview, Explained

In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.

~9 min

Bloomberg Technology·2026-10-13

Rodrigo Liang on why inference now comes down to economics

Rodrigo Liang· Co-founder and CEO

SambaNova's CEO argues that as inference scales the winner is decided by economics — payback speed, energy efficiency, and reused data centers — not by who owns the newest or most chips.

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~7 min

Bloomberg Technology·2026-07-08

Rodrigo Liang on why inference broke everything open

Rodrigo Liang· CEO of SambaNova Systems

SambaNova's CEO argues that inference has broken the AI market open, and that a challenger can win it by out-flanking NVIDIA on decode throughput, power per rack, mature-HBM supply, and on-prem enterprise data rather than bidding for the newest memory.

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