Baseten

Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform specializing in high-performance model inference for production environments. The company provides a comprehensive Inference Stack that combines cutting-edge performance research, inference-optimized infrastructure, and developer-friendly tooling to help organizations deploy AI models at scale. Their platform supports open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models with capabilities spanning large language models, image generation, transcription, text-to-speech, embeddings, and compound AI applications. The platform offers flexible deployment options including fully-managed cloud infrastructure, single-tenant clusters, and self-hosted solutions within customer VPCs. Baseten emphasizes performance optimization through custom kernels, advanced caching techniques, and the latest decoding methods, while maintaining 99.99% uptime and global availability across multiple cloud providers. Their Forward Deployed Engineers provide hands-on support from prototype to production, helping customers optimize and scale their AI workloads. Baseten serves a diverse customer base including notable companies such as Cursor, Notion, Writer, Superhuman, Patreon, and Cisco. The platform is designed for demanding generative AI applications, offering specialized optimizations for real-time audio streaming, rapid image generation, and ultra-low-latency compound AI systems.