[Contribution Request] AI Platform / Inference Engine

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This is the call for contribution for the feature Inference Engine.

If you plan to contribute an implementation please create a subticket to this epic.

Reference: #1479

Acceptance criteria:

• All contributions are announced 1 week prior to the workshop (deadline: 11th Jan 2026)
• Contribution is made available as a PR to the incubation repo (deadline: 19th Jan 2026), including a summary of the contribution with the following information:
  • High-level architecture of the implementation
  • Relation to the goals defined in the feature request
• Per contribution a 30 min pitch is held during the workshop
• Consensus on contribution is reached by 20th Feb 20256 (fallback voting by TLs on 23rd Feb 2026)

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Potential pitches:

• MB TI (@timkl7, not this year)

Candidate for jan onwards.