Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
Baseten raises $1.5B at $13B valuation, a 160% jump in five months via split-priced round. For enterprises, this signals that inference optimization—routing to cost-effective models—is shaping LLM deployment economics and stack decisions.
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2:20 PM PDT · June 18, 2026
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AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the WSJ reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. And that round was just nine months after raising a $150 million Series D.
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