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Baseten
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
San Francisco
“AWS for inference”: $1.5B Series F at $13B (closed); $600M run-rate.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Inference platform
- Production model serving for enterprises.
- Base Labs
- Safety tooling for open-weight models.
Recent news
- Baseten rolls out Grid, Sandboxes and Loops for coding agents and RL training †Expands from inference into agent sandboxes and training, against Modal.explainx ↗
- Base Labs launches open-weight safety partnership with Hugging Face, GoodfireMoves the inference provider into setting safety standards for open models, in response to widespread abliteration.TechCrunch ↗
- Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after last mega-roundA split $11B–$13B price marks inference hosting as a top-tier AI category.TechCrunch ↗
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