Baseten is a startup that provides infrastructure for deploying and running AI models. Recent coverage has focused on its fundraising: Bloomberg reported it is raising new funding at a valuation of about $30 billion, more than double its prior value, after earlier reports put a possible valuation at $26 billion. Its Base Labs unit also partnered with Hugging Face and Goodfire on safety evaluation and monitoring for open-weight models.
Baseten to raise funding at $30B valuation, doubling its valueAI startup Baseten is set to raise new funding that would more than double its valuation to about $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The move underscores continued investor appetite for AI infrastructure companies; the amount raised was not disclosed.
Modal Labs nears $750M round at $15.75B valuationAI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750M round led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation, more than tripling its $4.65B valuation from a $355M raise just four months ago. Demand for inference services is surging, with peers like Baseten also seeking higher-valued rounds, though high compute costs keep margins thin.
Modal, Baseten in funding talks at soaring valuationsAI infrastructure startups Modal Labs and Baseten are in funding talks that could at least double their valuations. Modal is seeking a valuation of about $15 billion, roughly triple its value four months ago, while Baseten could be valued at $26 billion, signaling strong investor demand for AI infrastructure services.
NVIDIA Launches AIPerf to Benchmark LLM Inference at ScaleNVIDIA launched AIPerf, a ground-up rewrite replacing GenAI-Perf, using a multiprocessed ZMQ architecture to bypass the Python GIL for accurate LLM inference benchmarking. It supports over 15 endpoint types and datasets like ShareGPT.
Base Labs launches open-weight model safety standardBaseten’s Base Labs partnered with Hugging Face and Goodfire to create safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models, aiming to bake safety into training and deployment to counter risks from “abliteration.” Hugging Face lists over 6,000 abliterated models; Baseten raised $1.5B in a June Series F at a $13B valuation.
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