$13B Baseten bets on open models, launches Base Labs research lab
baseten · x · 2026-10-02
- Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava sat down with Sachin & Adam at the company's SF HQ. The inference startup is valued at $13B, handles 1B AI requests daily, and counts NVIDIA among its investors.
- His thesis: the future is closed frontier + open frontier + a long tail of task-specific post-trained models, shifting the bottleneck to infrastructure.
- Notable segments: "The Best Models Are Chinese" and "Don't Rent Intelligence."
- Baseten also launched Base Labs, an open research lab, as part of its open-ecosystem bet.
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