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  "name": "Baseten",
  "description": "Baseten is an AI infrastructure company that provides a serverless platform for deploying and serving machine learning models in production. It offers high-performance GPU compute and specialized tooling, such as the open-source packaging framework Truss, to help engineers move models from development to scalable inference.",
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  "baiScore": 68,
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    {
      "slug": "modal",
      "name": "Modal"
    },
    {
      "slug": "together-ai",
      "name": "Together AI"
    }
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    {
      "slug": "modal-replicate",
      "name": "Modal Replicate"
    }
  ],
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T19:20:41.012+00:00",
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    "website": "https://www.baseten.co",
    "founded": "2019",
    "headquarters": "San Francisco, California",
    "pricing_model": "Usage-based (per-minute GPU billing)",
    "core_products": "Serverless GPU inference, Truss (open-source model packaging), Model library (Llama, Mistral, etc.)",
    "key_differentiator": "Baseten combines the ease of serverless deployment with deep infrastructure control, offering lower latency and better cold-start times than generic cloud providers.",
    "target_markets": "AI Engineers, MLOps Teams, Tech Startups, Enterprise R&D",
    "employee_count": "11-50",
    "funding_stage": "Series B",
    "subcategory": "Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)"
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      "Self-managed Infrastructure: Setting up local GPU clusters and managing CUDA drivers, Docker, and Kubernetes manually.",
      "ML Engineering Agency: Hiring specialized MLOps consultants to build a custom deployment pipeline."
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      "serverless GPU inference for Llama 3",
      "deploy ML models with Truss",
      "best platform for building internal AI apps",
      "high performance model serving infrastructure",
      "Generic Cloud Compute: Using general cloud providers like AWS EC2 or GCP Compute Engine without specialized ML abstraction layers."
    ],
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      "Baseten vs Replicate for production AI"
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