Baseten is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2019, headquartered in San Francisco, focused on providing cloud-based machine learning infrastructure services, with its core product being a machine learning application building platform.
Core Products and Features
- Machine learning workloads running in the cloud: Performs model training and inference in the user's cloud environment without regard to infrastructure management.
- Model Versioning and Deployment: Streamline the iterative update and release process for large models and support rapid go-live of new releases.
- Observability monitoring: Provides features that simplify versioning, rollout, and observability of large models.
- Multi-cloud support and model orchestration: Enables seamless integration of multi-cloud environments, optimizes model execution efficiency, and reduces latency and cost.
- Applied Performance Research: Adoption of specific frameworks to improve model performance and cost efficiency.
- Embedded AI Engineer Support: Provide 24/7 support to accelerate customer product launches.
Financing
- Series B Financing: In March 2024, Baseten closed a $40 million Series B round led by IVP and Spark Capital.
- Series C Financing: In February 2025, Baseten closed a $75 million Series C funding round, significantly increasing its valuation and market size. The round was used to optimize the technology platform and expand the business.
Market Performance and Customers
- Named to Forbes AI 50 list: Baseten was named to the Forbes AI 50 list in 2024 and 2025, marking its leadership in AI infrastructure.
- our customers: Baseten's customers are primarily companies developing AI applications, including Descript, Picnic Health, and others. Its platform powers core machine learning workloads for a wide range of organizations as well as developers.
Technical cooperation and advantages
- Partnering with Cloud Service Providers: Baseten works with major cloud service providers such as AWS and GCP to enable seamless integration in multi-cloud environments.
- Platform Advantages: Baseten's platform is uniquely positioned to simplify the management of machine learning workloads, enabling models to be deployed and serviced efficiently and cost-effectively, helping users manage and deploy AI models more effectively.