Baseten is an AI company based in San Francisco, founded in 2019. It specializes in machine learning infrastructure that focuses on deploying, serving, and scaling machine learning models efficiently. The platform is designed for data science and machine learning teams, allowing them to transition models from development to production without needing extensive backend or MLOps expertise.

The company offers a robust MLOps platform that supports model deployment, serving, and fine-tuning, particularly for large language models and generative AI applications. Baseten partners with industry leaders like AWS and NVIDIA to enhance performance and reduce latency, improving the user experience in AI-powered applications. Its services include infrastructure for production-ready AI models, fast inference capabilities, model APIs for prototyping, and training support on optimized infrastructure. Baseten also contributes to open-source AI, including the release of Truss, a model packaging framework.

Baseten serves various customers, including engineering and ML teams at companies like Patreon and Stability AI, helping them deploy and manage custom AI models effectively.