As organizations look to run AI models on their own infrastructure, they face a growing challenge: how to manage inference costs, performance, and governance across different models and compute environments. Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, is addressing this challenge with Kinference, an open source inference serving platform for Kubernetes. In this VMblog interview, William Morgan, co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, discusses why self-hosted inference needs more than fast models, how Kinference helps organizations manage AI …