Redis Pub/Sub for Asynchronous AI Model Inference

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To achieve Redis Pub/Sub for asynchronous AI model inference, you would typically set up a Redis instance configured with Pub/Sub capabilities. With these capabilities, you can publish messages, such as inference tasks, to a Redis channel and have one or multiple subscribers process these messages asynchronously.

In this program, we'll use Pulumi to provision a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Redis instance with Pub/Sub features enabled. The following components are used:

- **Google Cloud Memorystore for Redis**: A fully managed Redis service for fast in-memory data store. Public documentation can be found [here](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/redis/instance/).
  
The program is structured as follows:

- Import the required Pulumi libraries for GCP.
- Set up a GCP Redis instance with appropriate configurations for Pub/Sub.
- Export the Redis instance details which might be required for connecting to it from an application.

Now, let's go ahead and write a Pulumi program in Python to provision a Redis instance with Pub/Sub enabled on GCP.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# Create a GCP Redis instance
redis_instance = gcp.redis.Instance("ai-model-inference-redis",
    # Provide the necessary options as needed. For example:
    # region: Specify the region where the Redis instance will be created.
    region="us-central1", # Update this as per your location requirement.

# tier: Select the service tier (e.g., STANDARD_HA for high availability)
    tier="STANDARD_HA",
    
    # memory_size_gb: Set the capacity of the Redis instance in GB.
    memory_size_gb=1,
    
    # authorized_network: Set the authorized network for the Redis instance.
    # Ensure that your compute resources are within this network to connect to this Redis instance.
    authorized_network="default",

# redis_configs: Additional configurations for Redis instance. 
    # Enable Pub/Sub feature through these configurations if needed.
    # E.g., setting maxmemory-policy to allkeys-lru for caching scenarios. 
    # Note that specific Pub/Sub configuration options may vary and should be set as per requirement.
    redis_configs = {
        "maxmemory-policy": "allkeys-lru"
    },
)

# Export the host and port for the Redis instance to connect from an application.
pulumi.export("redis_host", redis_instance.host)
pulumi.export("redis_port", redis_instance.port)
```

This code snippet does not include all possible configurations for a Redis instance. You should adjust the "redis_configs" section and other parameters as per your exact requirements for the AI model inference workload. For instance, you may require different Redis configs or a larger instance for memory-heavy operations.

You can then use the exported Redis `host` and `port` to configure your AI model inference application to connect to and use the Redis instance for Pub/Sub messaging. Your application would publish inference tasks to a Redis channel using a Redis client library, and your inference workers would subscribe to the channel to receive and process tasks asynchronously.