Every excellent kitchen functions at two paces. Certain meals are made hours before to keep service smooth. Some meals are cooked right after an order arrives because a tiny delay can ruin them.
Enterprise AI works in a similar fashion.
Batch inference is your personal workspace: efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.
Real-time inference is an active barbecue: fast, and a lot more expensive to maintain. Many companies are slow to prepare everything on demand or risk losing clients by selling goods that should be fresh.