The component of the system that applies logical rules or neural network weights to the knowledge base or input data to deduce new information.
The Inference Engine is the runtime environment where the AI model generates its predictions or text. Private AI deployments need optimized inference engines (such as vLLM or TensorRT-LLM) to maximize throughput, minimize latency, and make efficient use of the GPU's memory bandwidth during generation.
See also Private AI, Air-Gapped Environment, Role-Based Access Control and Zero Trust Architecture.