InfoQ - Model Inference - Articles https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Model Inference Articles feed Article: Local-First AI Inference: A Cloud Architecture Pattern for Cost-Effective Document Processing https://www.infoq.com/articles/local-first-ai-inference-cloud/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Model+Inference-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/local-first-ai-inference-cloud/en/headerimage/Local-First-AI-Inference-A-Cloud-Architecture-Pattern-for-Cost-Effective-Document-Processing-header-1778141518292.jpg"/><p>The Local-First AI Inference pattern routes 70–80% of documents to deterministic local extraction at zero API cost, reserving Azure OpenAI calls for edge cases and flagging low-confidence results for human review. Deployed on 4,700 engineering drawing PDFs, it cut API costs by 75% and processing time by 55%, while bounding errors through a human review tier.</p> <i>By Obinna Iheanachor</i> Cost Optimization Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure Observability Model Inference Azure GPT-4 Cloud Generative AI Development AI, ML & Data Engineering DevOps article Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/local-first-ai-inference-cloud/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Model+Inference-articles Obinna Iheanachor 2026-05-11T11:00:00Z /articles/local-first-ai-inference-cloud/en