# Heroku AI | Managed Inference and Agents

DevFeed: [Heroku AI | Managed Inference and Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/heroku-ai-managed-inference-and-agents-26414.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.heroku.com/blog/heroku-ai-managed-inference-agents/>)

Author: Rand Arete

Published: 2024-12-02T14:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/heroku.md>)

Topics: [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation.md>), [Environment Variables](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/environment-variables.md>)

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## AI overview

Heroku announces the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, the initial offering of Heroku AI. It provides access to selected AI models and supports adding model access to Heroku applications through the Heroku CLI and environment variables.

## Source excerpt

Over the last couple of years, we've repeatedly heard the question "who will build the Heroku of AI?". The answer to that question is that Heroku will, of course. We are excited to bring AI to the Heroku platform with the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, delivered with the graceful developer and operational experience [...] The post Heroku AI | Managed Inference and Agents appeared first on Heroku.